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R         Nathan Boone Homestead Committee.

951                  Booklet, 2003.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a souvenir booklet for “The 20th Annual Nathan Boone Homestead Days Festival,” held on 19-21 September 2003 at Ash Grove in Greene County, Missouri.  Tom Miller served as president of the Nathan Boone Homestead Committee, sponsors of the festival.

 

Nathan Boone (1781-1856), a son of Daniel Boone, homesteaded near present-day Ash Grove in 1837.  Today his log home is a Missouri State Historic Site.  Every year the Nathan Boone Homestead Committee sponsors a festival to commemorate the area’s most famous pioneer resident.  This 36-page booklet contains articles about Boone and his times, including an inventory of his personal estate and a list of the slaves he owned at the time of his death in 1856.  There is also an article about William Berry and his descendants.  Berry was a freeborn man of color who came to Ash Grove in 1872 and married Caroline Boone, who had been born into slavery on the Boone homestead.  There are also snapshots of present-day Ash Grove and advertisements for many area businesses.

 

 

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