Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Tipton BOONE
John T. whose birth cost the life of the mother. He was reared by his Grandmother Boone and adopted the profession of a physician. During the gold excitement of 1849 he went to California, and after the receipt of three letters was never heard of afterward.
John Tipton Boone http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/fam/fam57292.html
On June 26, 1849, J. Goldsborough Bruff was headed to California and noted in his overland diary that he saw the (new) grave of "Dr. J. T. Boon, Aged 29 yrs. Mo." At that time he was on the north bank of the South Platte River about at the present-day town of North Platte, Nebraska on the Oregon/California/Mormon Trail. This was several hundred miles north of the Santa Fe Trail (which had many fewer travelers on it than the O/C/M trail to the north).
I thought you might be interested.
Richard Rieck
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Geography
Western Illinois Univ.
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