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Edward Boone was killed by Indians here on the banks of Boone Creek on October 4, 1780, while hunting with his brother Daniel. He was buried here the next day by Daniel and a party from Boone’s Station, near Athens, Kentucky, where Edward, Daniel, and their families lived at the time along with 15 other families. The original gravestone was erected by the DAR in the 1920’s.
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