Daniel Morgan Boone
{{Short description|American frontiersman (1769–1839)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Morgan Boone
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1769|12|23}}
| birth_place = South Carolina
| death_date = {{death date and age|1839|07|13|1769|12|23}}
| death_place = [https://kcparks.org/places/daniel-morgan-boone-park/ Daniel Morgan Boone farm], Jackson County, Missouri
| resting_place = Boone Hays Graveyard
| nationality = American
| known_for = Son and namesake of Daniel Boone, hunting, scouting, and exploration on the United States frontier, establishing Boone's Lick and the Boonslick Road
| occupation = {{hlist|Hunter|soldier|surveyor|merchant|agriculturalist|farmer}}
| father = Daniel Boone
| mother = Rebecca Bryan
| spouse = {{marriage|Sarah Griffin Lewis|March 2, 1800}}
| children = {{unbulleted list|John W Boone, 1806–1822|Nathan Boone, 1808–1835|Daniel Boone, 1809–1880|Lindsay Boone, 1811–1834|Edward H Boone, 1813–1860|Elizabeth Levica Boone White, 1815–1850|Alonzo Havington Boone, 1817–1874|James H Boone, 1819–1852|Milton Lindsey Boone, 1820–1820|Cassandra Boone Cosby, 1821–1845|Morgan Boone, 1824–1852|Napoleon Boone, 1828–1850}}
| relatives = {{ubl|Squire Boone (uncle)|Jemima Boone Callaway (sister)|Nathan Boone (brother and business partner)}}
}}
Daniel Morgan Boone (December 23, 1769 {{ndash}} July 13, 1839) was the son of Daniel Boone and a significant American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman in his own right. He was a particularly key player in the early American exploration and settlement of Missouri.
Early life and first forays into Missouri
Daniel Morgan Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone in 1769 in South Carolina. He spent most of his early years in Kentucky.
At the age of 18, he struck out on a solitary journey of 30 days for St. Louis, during which it is said he did not see another human being. He spent the subsequent decade trapping and hunting in eastern Missouri and along the Missouri River, preceding Lewis and Clark, who would not depart west from St. Louis until 1804."Daniel Morgan Boone: Pioneer, 1769-1839" by Daniel Coleman, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, p. 1. http://www.kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A115350/datastream/OBJ/download/Biography_of_Daniel_Morgan_Boone__1769-1839___Pioneer.pdf Accessed 25 Sep 2021.
If these sources are correct, that means Boone was exploring and trapping in present-day Missouri as early as 1787:
Probably the first white man who came into the territory of Jackson county was Col. Daniel Morgan Boone, a son of old Daniel Boone. He came to St. Louis in 1787, where he was warmly received by the trappers and traders.In a memoir of him written by the late Dr. Johnson Lykins, of this city, it is stated that he spent twelve winters trapping beavers on the Blue, spending his summers in St. Louis. He was married in the year 1800, when he abandoned trapping.The History of Jackson County, Union Publishing Company, 1881, pp. 138-140, 376-377. See also "Daniel Morgan Boone: Pioneer, 1769-1839" by Daniel Coleman, Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, p. 1. http://www.kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A115350/datastream/OBJ/download/Biography_of_Daniel_Morgan_Boone__1769-1839___Pioneer.pdf Accessed 25 Sep 2021.
Leading the Boone Family to settle in French Missouri
File:Santa-fe-trail-boonslick-trail-map-1908.jpgAt the behest of his father, Boone visited Missouri in 1797, arranged Spanish Land Grants for himself, his father, and other family members and settlers in the area near present-day Matson, Missouri. Along with his brother Nathan, he expanded the existing Native American trace into the Boon's Lick Road from the Boone settlement in eastern Missouri, along the Missouri River near present-day Matson, Missouri, to a salt spring in central Missouri. This became the primary road used by American settlers as they moved west into central Missouri - the only available road through this area until after the War of 1812. Starting in 1821, the Boon's Lick Road became the conduit from St Louis to the Santa Fe Trail, which ran 900 miles from Boon's Lick Country to Santa Fe, Mexico.Daniel Morgan Boone, Historical Missourians, State Historical Society of Missouri, https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/daniel-morgan-boone Accessed 25 Sept 2021
Later he pioneered another road, with a slightly different alignment from Boone settlement that went further west to Fort Osage.
Boone's marriage record, to Sara Griffin Lewis, was discovered in 2015. The marriage took place March 2, 1800, and was conducted by a Spanish priest in St. Charles, Missouri. (At the time, Missouri was Spanish territory.) Both Boone's and Lewis's parents lived in the area and were present for the ceremony.The marriage record is item #17 in the State Historical Society of Missouri Typescript Collection, 1814-1962 (C0995), https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/c0995 (accessed 25 Sept 2021). See also Daniel Morgan Boone, Historical Missourians, State Historical Society of Missouri, https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/daniel-morgan-boone (accessed 25 Sept 2021)
On the American frontier, Boone participated in a wide variety of ventures - many of them with his brother, Nathan - from the salt refining operation at Boon's Lick to market hunting to an operating large-scale a pine plank lumber, sawmill, and transport operation in the northern Ozarks. The pine planks were a valuable commodity if they could be transported from the Ozarks to the waiting markets along the Mississippi River."Daniel Morgan Boone’s Missing Years: Sending Ozarks Pine to St. Louis," by Lynn Morrow, Southeast Missouri State University Press, https://web.archive.org/web/20230320215555/http://www.semopress.com/daniel-morgan-boones-missing-years-sending-ozarks-pine-to-st-louis/ Accessed 11 June 2025
Boone fought in the War of 1812, participating in the fortification-building and general build-up preceding the war. During the war he patrolled the frontier and worked as a spy.Daniel Morgan Boone, Historical Missourians, State Historical Society of Missouri, https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/daniel-morgan-boone Accessed 25 Sept 2021 File:Daniel-Morgan-Boone-Jackson-County-Land-Patent-1833-STA Patent MO0180 .032.pngFile:Daniel-Morgan-Boone-Jackson-County-Land-Patent-1833-STA Patent MO0170 .404.png
Move to Westport and work with Kaw Indian Agency
By 1826, Boone had settled on the western side of Missouri in the Westport (Kansas City) area. In 1829 he moved to Kansas Indian Territory as government agriculturalist for the Kaw Indian Agency in present-day Jefferson County, Kansas. This places Boone and his family among very earliest non-Native settlers in Kansas Territory as well.
Boone served on the committee that determined the location of the Missouri capital on the Missouri River bluffs in central Missouri, and laid out the new city - Jefferson City - that was planned there as the state capital.Heritage of Jefferson City, City of Jefferson City, https://www.jeffersoncitymo.gov/live_play/history_heritage/index.php
In 1831, Boone patented land in Jackson County, Missouri, where he and his large family owned property and farmed. His land was near present-day 63rd Street and Holmes - where he built a cabin - and near 79th and Holmes in Kansas City, Missouri."Waldo's Santa Fe Hills: An Exclusive Indian Village with Layers of History," by Diane Euston, The New Santa Fe Trailer, https://newsantafetrailer.blogspot.com/2020/08/ Both properties were generally along the Westport Santa Fe Trail route (today's Wornall Road) - one of the major thoroughfares through the area at that time. File:Rotate boone-hays-cemetery-marker-IMG 20210902 090525.png
Death and burial
In 1839 Boone died of cholera and was buried on the family farm.
The Boone-Hays Graveyard, near present-day 63rd and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, was long neglected. In 2000, local groups organized a clean up of the area and installation of new grave markers and a historical marker. The cemetery and part of the Boone's farm is now a city park with memorials for Boone, his wife, Sara Griffin, and others who were buried there.Kansas City, Missouri, Parks Department, https://kcparks.org/places/daniel-morgan-boone-park/ (accessed 25 Sept 2021) Many buried in that location were later re-interred at the nearby Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery, though not, as far as records indicate, Morgan Boone or Sarah Lewis Boone.Rootsweb Boone Hays Cemetery page, http://sites.rootsweb.com/~mojackso/boonehayscemetery.htm (accessed 25 Sept 2021){{Unreliable source?|date=October 2022}}
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