U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Boone, Thomas M. (1854-1931) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 830-832, THOMAS M. BOONE. The Boones were French Huguenots. When driven out of France some went to Scotland, some to England and some to Ireland. Daniel Boone, the great pioneer, came of English stock. The great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch went to Scotland. His name was James. His son, George, came to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and located there early in the eighteenth century. Descendants of the Irish branch settled in Pittsburgh. They retained the old orthography, spelling the name DeBoens. George Boone, son of James, died in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1858, about 84 years of age. During the last ten years of his life he was totally blind. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson, whose mother was a Marshall, a cousin to Daniel Boone's wife, who was a Marshall also. Elizabeth died in 1836 or 1837. Her parents were old Scotch Covenanters, the same as the Boones and the Hutchinsons. Children of George and Elizabeth Boone were: (1) Margaret, who married Mr. Pepard and moved to Loraine county, Ohio. (2) James, the father of Thomas M. (3 and 4) Eliza and George, who were twins. Eliza married a Mr. Ross and took up a residence in Millersburg, Ohio. George married Sarah Hailey. She lived and died in Holmes county, Ohio. (5) William was active in the Underground Railway for runaway slaves. He lived in Loraine county, Ohio. Slaves making their escape on that line from Marietta to Canada would be brought by his brother, James, in Holmes county, to his house, and from there he would take them to safe quarters on the lake, to be deported by another party to Canada. (6) Samuel and (7) Thomas moved to Washington county, Iowa. (8) Maria, married Hugh Truesdale, a brother to Tamar Truesdale, the wife of James and mother of Thomas M. The Truesdales were Scotch Covenanters. (9) Hutchinson is living near Vincennes, Indiana. (10) Isabel, married Captain Hughes, who commanded a company in an Iowa Regiment during the Civil War. (11) John Irwin was a physician. He went to California in 1849 and practiced his profession there. The Boone and Truesdale families were very patriotic. There were sixty of these two families in the Civil War of 1861-65. James Boone was born in Beavers county, Pennsylvania, in 1802. In 1810 he moved to Holmes county, Ohio, where he lived until 1865, when he moved to Johnston county, in Missouri, and in 1875 he moved to Chaffee county, Colorado, where he died in 1880. He was married to Tamar Truesdale, of Butler county, Pennsylvania, in 1825. Her people moved to Ohio in 1811 and lived north of Fredericksburg, in Wayne county. James and Tamer lived in Holmes county on a farm adjoining the Vallandingham farm, where the noted C. L. was born and raised. The county was full of sympathizers for the South, and many an interesting story could be told of runaway slaves finding refuge in the attic story of James Boone's house, where they were kept in hiding during the day and then taken from there by night to his brother William's house in Loraine county, and from there by night again they were taken to some port on the lake between Toledo and Cleveland, where another friend of the distressed would put them on some boat for the opposite shore. The children of James and Tamar (Truesdale) Boone were: (1) James, who was in the late war and died in Leavenworth, Kansas. He and his brother, George H., belonged to the 1st Colorado and participated in those engagements which drove Price out of Missouri. (2) Elizabeth married Thomas Cameron, of Holmes county, Ohio. (3) William Ross was a member of the same regiment McKinley belonged to, from Ohio. He died of typhoid fever in 1862. (4) Hugh Clarke was a member of the 16th Ohio. He had both arms shattered by a shell at Pittsburg Landing. (5) David C. and (6) Samuel belonged to the 102nd Ohio. Samuel C. was a prisoner in Andersonville, Libbey, and at Cahaba, Alabama. He was killed January 22, 1875, in Colorado. (7) Nancy M., married Mayol, a Frenchman. He died, then she married Samuel Hartsell. She died April 26, 1911. (8) John S., (9) George H., and (10) Hugh C., are living in Colorado. (11) Maria, died in Colorado. She married Moreland Gibson, and in 1871 moved to Missouri. In 1876 they moved to Colorado. He died September 1, 1876. She then married Jess Davis, and died at Grand Junction in 1886. (12) Sarah married Alexander Hogue, who died September 25, 1906. They lived in Colorado. (13) John Seymour was in the Spanish War. He was under General Chaffee and saw service also in Pekin, China. He is now in the Soldiers' Home at Monte Christo. Thomas M. Boone was born in Holmes county, Ohio, went to Missouri with his parents in 1865, and from there to Colorado. He was a cowboy and herded cattle in Texas and Montana. On the 15th of October, 1890, he married Elizabeth C. Hartsell. She was a daughter of George W. Hartsell, of this county, West Virginia. After living three years in Colorado he went to Seattle, Washington, and lived there from 1884 to 1889, and then he moved to Virginia. In 1891 he moved to Kingwood, where he has been ever since. In the West he was a practical miner and an assayist of some recognized ability. He has been a stonemason since coming to this state. On January 7, 1892, he became a member of the Methodist Church on probation, and in July was taken into full membership, shortly after which he was made a member of the Church Board, which position he has held ever since. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #4269 FULL-NAME: Thomas Marion Boone BIRTH-DATE: Nov 5, 1854 BIRTH-PLACE: not known DEATH-DATE: March 27, 1931 DEATH-PLACE: Kingwood, Kingwood District, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Stone Mason FATHER: James Boone MOTHER: Tomar Truesdale CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pulmonary tuberculosis INFORMANT: Ruby J. Williams (of Kingwood, W.Va.) BURIAL: Kingwood Cemetery --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------