Daniel Boone is Don Cue’s sixth Great-Granduncle!
If you want to see five hours go by in a flash, jump in and find out how you are related to a famous person! Don and I sat and did this one evening when I was just starting to really engage in (and by that I mean become addicted to) genealogy. The family story we explored: the Cues are related to Daniel Boone, an early American folk hero and frontiersman.
Great starting point! This led to dueling internet searches and digging into all of the U.S. census records starting in 1790. Marriage records, baptism records, Find-a-Grave records, county records, old history books, etc. In addition, there are many books available written in the 19th and 20th centuries, that detail the Boone lineage. These family history books are an amazing resource and a great starting point when you are trying to establish who is related to whom and how. If you might be related to someone that has been written extensively about, once you can find your connection there is quite a bit of detailed information available.
We were able to establish that Don is the sixth great-grandson of Samuel Boone, born in 1728 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Samuel is the older brother of the man, the myth, the legend, Daniel Boone (1734-1820). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone
Samuel and Daniel are sons of Squire Boone (1696-1765) and Sarah Morgan (1700-1777). Squire, who immigrated from England, married Sarah in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1720 and they had at least eleven children together. Samuel, 1728-1816, married Sarah Day, 1724-1819, sometime around 1748. The couple were both born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Carolina’s and then Kentucky with other Boone relatives. The extended Boone family established Boones Station, Kentucky, now a State Historic Site near Lexington, in December of 1779. There were a series of land disputes; Daniel Boone moved on, eventually moving to Missouri which was not yet part of the United States. Daniel Boone died in 1820.
Samuel and Sarah stayed in Fayette County, Kentucky where Samuel died in 1816 at the age of 88. Sarah passed away in 1819.
If you want to learn more about the Boone family and genealogy, here is a link to The Boone Family:
First posted in Facebook in Related to Renee Love Cue, 18 February 2021