13 Facts About Squire Boone

The tenth of eleven children, Squire Boone was born to Squire Boone Sr.

Squire Boone accompanied his brother and 30 others, assisting in the settlement of Boone's Station.

In Spring 1779, after the siege of Boonesborough, where Squire had a rifle ball cut out of his shoulder, he moved his family to the settlement at the Falls of the Ohio that would become Louisville.

Since Squire Boone was still too weak from his injury to make the trip, he stayed behind at the station with his family and one other.

Squire Boone served two terms in the Virginia legislature in 1789 and 1790 and was the primary sponsor of a bill to charter the town of Louisville.

Squire Boone personally acquired a large tract of land on the western edge of the township near the cave he and his brother had hid in many years earlier to evade Indians.

Squire Boone considered the cave to be sacred and decided that was where he wanted to be entombed.

On his land, Squire Boone carved stone out of a nearby hill to build his home.

Squire Boone carved into the quarry wall various religious and political statements that are still there today.

Squire Boone would build Old Goshen Church, one of the first churches in the state.

Squire Boone became a close friend of Harvey Heth and involved in the local politics of the area as one of the leading citizens.

Squire Boone was Harrison County's Justice of the peace in 1808.

Squire Boone died of congestive heart failure, at age 70, on August 5,1815, and was buried per his request in the cave on his property in Harrison County, Indiana.