We Are Also Boones, Part 5

by Glenn N. Holliman

The Boones and Wilcoxsons Locate to North Carolina

By the late 1740s, Squire Boone had had enough of the Quaker Church disciplining him for this children marrying outside of the faith. In 1750 in somewhat of a huff, he sold his land, burned some of his belongings, and with children and in-laws, moved down the Shenandoah Valley, first stopping in Virginia and eventually settling in the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina. Although Cherokee wars sent the family back to Culpepper, Virginia in the 1760s, the families eventually settled in the rolling hills of Rowan County.

Map from Boone, A Biography by Robert Morgan. For educational purposes only and not for commercial gain.

For Squire and his wife, Sarah, this was their last stop. Squire, who was born in Devonshire, England in 1696, died in 1765. Lying next to him is Sarah Morgan Boone, who died in 1777. This monument is to my generation's 7th great grandparents.
Photo from In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone, for educational purposes only.

The cemetery is located just one mile off I -40 near Mocksville, North Carolina. What was once the wild frontier is now Interstate Exit 170 half way between Winston-Salem and Statesville. The graveyard is 1/2 mile northwest of Mocksville on US 601.