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Rebecca Ann Bryan was born on January 9, 1738 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.
Rebecca married Daniel Boone, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Jarmen Morgan, on August 14, 1756 at Yadkin River Valley, Rowan County, North Carolina.1,3 Rebecca Ann Bryan was a witness at the wedding ofIsrael Boone Grant and Susannah Bryan at home of Daniel and Rebecca Boone, Fort Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentucky.5
Rebecca died on March 18, 1813 in St. Charles County, Missouri, at age 75.She was buried in 1813 Defiance's Boone grave. Daniel Boone has suffered similar body-snatching shennanigans but with a twist:He appears to have ended up in two graves.
Everyone agrees that Boone died at his son's home near Defiance, MO, in 1820. Everyone also agrees that he was buried nearby in Marthasville (about 14 mi. west), near the grave of his wife, Rebecca. But then the story gets muddled. The folks in Frankfort, KY, would have you believe that Rebecca and Daniel were exhumed 25 years later and reinterred in Frankfort Cemetery. The marker near Defiance mentions the reinterrment, but...
According to Defiance, Frankfort dug up the wrong body. The grave next to Rebecca's was already occupied when Daniel died, they say, so he was buried at her feet. Daniel's relatives were angry at Frankfort and didn't tell them about his true burial plot. They let Frankfort cart away the body next to Rebecca's, the body of a stranger.
Scientific scrutiny seems to support Defiance's claims. A forensic anthropologist studied a plaster cast of the skull in Frankfort's "Daniel Boone" grave in 1983 and said that it really belonged to a large black man. Frankfort, of course, pooh-poohed those allegations.
Both graves have worthy monuments. Frankfort's is bigger (that was, ostensibly, the reason for the move in the first place) but it's in a big cemetery and must share its surroundings with other dead people. The memorial near Defiance is out by itself, and it's worth remembering that Daniel Boone's own reason for leaving Kentucky was that it was "too crowded."
Rebecca Ann Bryan was reinterred in 1845 at Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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