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THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SPARKS' FAMILY .ASSOCIATION
VOL, I SEPTEIMER, 1953 NO. 3
PAUL E. SPARKS, EDITORl 155 NORTH HITS AVENUE, LOUISVILLE 6 x EENTU0 KY.
(THIS PORTION OF CRAM' S MAP OF. NORTH CAROLINA SHOWS THE CENTRAL AID MTERN SECTIONS
OF THE STATE, AND THE AREA SETTLED BY THE BOONE,BRYAN, AND SPARES FAMILIES IS' ACCENT-
ED BY THE SHAIED CIRCLE. THESE FAMILIES FIRST SETTLED, IN TER 1740"S AND 1750' S, 124
WHAT IS NOW DAVIE COUNTY, EAST AND SOUTH OF MOCKSVILLE, NEAR THE DAVIDSON AND ROVIAN
COM7Y LINES,IN THE FORKS OF THE YADKIN RIVER. THE PARENTS OF IkNIEL. BOONE ARE BURIED
NEAR MOCESV ILLE. MORGAN BRYAN ALSO OWNED LAND ON THE YADKIN Riir'ER NEAR WILKESBORO, I id
WHAT IS NOW WILDS COUNTY. BRANCHES OF THE SPARKS FAMILY SETTLED IN WHAT IS NOW WEST-
ERN YADKIN AND EASTERN WILKES COUNTIES IN THE 17601S, WHILE IT WAS STILL A PART CF
ROWAN COUNTY. LATER GENERATIONS REMOVED TO ADJOINING COUNTIES, AS WELL AS TO OTHER
STATES, BOTH .NEAR AND FAR.
DANIEL BOONS AND THS SPARKS FAMILY.
The following account of the BOONES,BRYANS and SPARKS ,was written by Dr. J.D. Bryan;
whose great-grandfather Bryan's sister, Rebecca, was the Rite of Daniel Boone.Drjvyar.
read this article before the Kentucky Historical Society some years before its publi-
cation. It was first printed in the Register of The Kentucky Historical Societ ,Sepia.
10.05,Valume 3, Number 9, paged 81-92. Dre ryas was described as a careful storiai ,
and the Society pointed out that he had made a careful and exhaustive search for dai•a
concerning his own people. Subsequent to the first publication, the article was r6 -
printed in The Kentucky Historical Secie ]dAg&Zino, July 1930, Volume 28,Number e4,
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.From he Boone Scout, of July 1964: We are able to o! fer for
sale two photostats of records in the Court Hou. :. -.-e in Salisbury, ;:. C.
(1) the Will of James Carter, establishing the fact that his daughter,
nary, was the wife of Jonathan Boone, (brother of Daniel) and naming
two of their children; (2) deeds of property in Salisbury from James
Carter to Jonathan Boone, his wife, Mary, and their children. Any des-
cendant of Jonathan and nary may now settle a disputed question rerman'�'tly.
From, Boone Pioneer Echoes: Rowan County, Worth Carolina Minute
Document, 1?53-67, page 37: "A deed of gift from JAMES CARTER to ABAGALE
BOONE, daughter of 'Jonathan Boone, and granddaughter of said JAMS CARTER."
This brief, but very important record, proves another daughter
for Jonathan Boone and Mary (Carter) Boone. Jonathan was the son of Squire
Boone, Sr. and brother to Daniel Boone, the pioneer. This added informatica
to the meager knowledge of Jonathan's family, was contributed by Delores
DeWitt.
From The Boone Scout, of Jan. 1964; Through Dr, Theodore W.
Houk of Seattle, we are able to present from the Rowan County, N.C. records
the following list of marriage Bonds A--L,*positive microfilm HS 258, in-
dexed by surname of both bride and groom. As most of the Boones named are
descendants of John (Benjamin 4, George 3) it is hoped these data may be
of general interest.
Boon Catherine Mark Whitaker 1 March 1780
Since two others in the list are questioned as being from John
Boone, we question this one, as Catherine Boone is said, in other docu-
ments, to be the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Boone. Or is it poosible
that the record of the marriage of Katie Boone and Mark Whittier is a
different couple and this latter is the Jonathan Boone daughter?
Boone Marriage Index, published in Boone Pioneer Echoes, July
1972. page 21, lists Dinah Boone and Zachariah Allen. From The Boone
Scout, Jan.1970, "Zachariah Allen, b 1754 m Dinah Boone, daughter of
Jonathan (brother of Daniel) in 1??9, Warren County, Ky. Dinah was born
in 1?59. Zachariah was a brother of an Allen who was an early settler
of Pike County, Illinois."
Joseph Boone and Sally Dagley m'1?98 in Ky. Boone Pioneers
Echoes Oct. 1972. _
From Carolina Cradle by Robert W. Ramsey; Squire Boone's
son, Jonathan (according to Stoudt) born in rucks County) married'Jatues
Carter's daughter, Mary, (Rowan Deeds III, 367). The Boone farm (near
modern Chalfone) was approximately twelve miles from the Carter.0 e.
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pages 244-260. In the reprinting, JONAS Sparks is' erroneously called JAMES Sparks --
a mistake which has set several Sparks family genealogists on a false trail. Jonas
Sparks did not remain in Kentucky, but soon took his family back to Rowan Co., North
Carolina. Some of the Bryans also returned to North Carolina. In 1786, in Rowan Co.,
North Carolina (and not in Kentucky, as Dr. Bryan states), Henry Bryan, a brother of
Dr. Bryan's paternal grandfather, was married to Elizabeth Sparks, daughter of Jonas.
They later settled in Missouri.
Esther Sparks, another daughter of Jonas, married 1787 in Rowan County, N.C. to Jesse
Caton, and they, too,' settled in Missouri. Elizabeth Caton, daughter of Jesse and
Esther (Sparks) Caton, married John Boone Callaway, son of Flanders and Jemima (Boone)
Callaway,and grandson of Daniel Boone. John Boone Callaway resided in St.Charles,Co.,
Missouri where he had a mill and distillery on Femme Osage Creek. He was a Justice of
the Peace and Judge of the County Court; died in 1825. John Boone Callaway had four
children by' his. wife, Elizabeth Caton: 1) E►naline, married Hayden Boone (grandson of
.eorge,brother of Daniel Boone); 2) Verlinia,married John Bryan,son of Henry;3)James,
of Mexico City,.Missouri, "engaged in banking business", married Mary McKinney, daugh-
ter of Alexander and Nancy (Bryan) McKinney; 4) Octavia,married Schuyler Rice of Eng,
land. Jesse Caton,Jr., son of Jesse and Esther (Sparks) Caton, married Missouri Lamme,
a niece of John Boone Callaway,she being a daughter of William T. and Frances (Calls. -
way) lamme,a granddaughter of Flanders' and Jemima (Boone) Callaway, and thus a great. -
granddaughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone. (See Spraker's The Boone FamilX,
for further details.) Since the genealogy of the Boone and Bryan families has been so
widely publicized, that portion of Dr. Bryan's article has been omitted at this time.
Here follow pertinent excerpts from Dr. Bryan's article: .
"Squire Boone, Daniel*"s father, and his family left Exeter (now Derks Co., Pen4nsyl.
vania) on the first day of May,1750,and moved to North Carolina. Squire Boone settled
on the Yadkin river at Alleman's Ford,also since called Boone's Ford. This was in the
same community where Morgan Bryan then lived. .....,.�
"Morgan Bryan, father of James,Vrilliam and Morgan,Jr., had sold his interests in Vir-
ginia, and in the fall of 1748 he had moved his family to North Carolina and settled
in the forks of the Yadkin river, which was then Anson Co., but in 1753 Rowan Co, was
set off from Anson,thus they were in Rowan Co. Thus we see that Morgan Bryan had been
living on the Yadkin river when Squire Boone came from Penn. and settled on the Yadkin
river and became a near neighbor to him. Here Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan became
acquainted and in 1755 were married. William Bryan ( son of Morgan and brother of Re-
becca) also married Mary Boone (sister of Daniel) the same year.
"On September 25, 1773, Daniel Boone, Squire Boone (brothers), James, Morgan,Jr., and
William Bryan (brothers), and Jonas Sparks, all with large families of children, many
of said children approaching maturity, started from North Carolina to settle on the
Kentucky river.
"'Kaintuckeet is a Shawnee word and signified 'at the head of the river'; in never
meant 'dark and bloody ground', as is generally stated. These men with their sons,old
enough to be efficient with the rifle ,formed quite a respectable force, as they could
certainly muster some twenty rifles. They proceeded without incident worthy of _note
u. -.til they reached.Powell's Valley where. they were joined by five other families and
'forty well -armed men': =
"Their daily order of march was for the armed men to take the lead,then came the wom.
en and children on horseback,then the cattle and young stock driven by the older boys
and young men, who thus brought up zhe rear, and acted as a rear guard. In this order
they took their daily march,and proceeded without incident worthy of note Until Octo,
ber 10th, when they were crossing Powell's river for the last time, as they approach-
ed 'Cumberland Gap'. While moving, the cavalcade would stretch out on the road for a
mile or so. The armed men had forded the river and were halted and formed in line to
protect the company, expecting attack, if at all. from tha front. Whi1A +?,o Two;- a+,.....�
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x1re thus on guard, other men were helping the women and children to ford the river.
The time consuuned in fording the river had brought the rear Euard up to within half a
mile or less of the river. 71hile some of the women and children were still in the
midst of the stream the entire company was startled by a sudden and 'heavy firing in
th5 rear. Some eP the armed men hastily mounted and rushed back across the river, and
as they -ot fairly on the bank,mat one of the young men, grounded, dashinE up, who re-
ported that they had 'been fired on from ambush.The men soon came upon the Indian,^,,and
after a sharp Pi ht drove thein off, to find the other six young men dead, all had re-
ceived fatal rsounds at the first fire, shoaling the Indians had lain in the thicket at
the roadside,and, as the company -a=s toc strong for them, they had allowed the caval-
cade to pass by, but when the seven young men came up, it was too tempting for Indian
emit-.• to resist. They evidently each picked his nan,took deliberate aim,and but one,
sent their bullets but too true,killing outright the six and wounding the seventh.
"raniel Boone's oldest son, James, was among the slain. Fearing a general attack the
company at once went into camp and remained under arms the rest of that day and night.
This caused 4hem, after burying the dead, to retreat to the settlements on the Clinch
river, Virginia, forty rales back the road they had come.
"Here they erected cabins for their protection and comfort and went into winter quart-
ers to await the following spring to renew their journey. The next spring an Indian
War broke out known as Dumnore's War. Boone was commissioned Captain in the Virginia
militia and placed in command of three contiguous forts, part of a system of forts
from the Potomac to the south line. The emigrants rengined in their cabins on the
Clinch river durinc the war, which was concluded by the Battle of Point Pleasant,Oct-
ober 1774, after which the militia was disbanded. Boone returned to the camp on the
Clinch river. An impetus was no,v given to the settlement of Kentucky because of the
bounty lands given the soldiers by Virginia,.
"Among many. others, Colonel Richard Henderson organized a company with the purpose of
purchasin1v the rights of the Cherokee Indians (whatever that right might be-) to all
land bounded by the Ohio, Kentucky, and Cumberland rivers. (Kentucky river was origi-
nally called the Louisiana river.) Because of his influence with the Indians, Captain
Boone was aligaged and went with Colonel Henderson to attend a treaty with the Chero-
�ees at Fort Wautauga,situated on a branch of the Holston river, March 17,1775, where
the right of the Cherokees to the above stated lands was purchased by this company.
Then it was important to take possession of this territory. Captain Boone was engaged
so do this. He raised a company of well -armed men (no doubt his own people formed a
good part of it) and Proceeded to the Kentucky river. They proceeded with such dis-
patch as to begin April 1st the erection of the 'Stockade Fort' which, in honor of
Boone,vms calleai 'Boone's Borough',on the Kentucky river at the mouth of Otter Creek.
The fort was completed the 14th of the following June. Aa'soon as the fort was com-
pleted, Boone Started for the Clinch settlement for his family, leaving a.small guard
in the Port. The old company, William, James and Morgan Bryan, Squire Boone and Jongs
Sparl<s and families -- and now that the danger was triflinE,other-families joined the
caravan -- in September or October, just two years from their first start, crossed
Powell's river and ;.hits time proceeded to the Kentucky river without incident.
"While the Boones proceeded at once to Boone's Borough, the Bryans only stopped there
while they could erect a fort for their protection. 'They proceeded further north or.
the Elkhorn, where they erected a stockade fort, which they called Bryan's Stationg
which was built that fall and winter. Colonel Richard Callaway and Colonel Benjamin
Logan, old friends of the Bryans and Boones in North Carolina, came with their fami-
lies early that next spring (1776) and each erected a sUtion or fort, as they were
called both ways. These settlements were four hundred miles beyond the frontiers of
Virginia and North Carolina. The Revolution had begun by the battles of Lexington and
Ccncord. A company of hunters were camped on the present site of Lexington, Kentucky;
hearing of the battle Of Lexington they called their place 'Camp Lexington'.Thus came
the name anclin due time, the town of Lexington.
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