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• FSID: GM74-JD5
• Residence: 1840, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; Bomgarners District
• Military: 26 Jul 1861, Alexander, North Carolina, USA
• Military: 1 Feb 1862, Burke, North Carolina, USA

Elijah married Bumgarner, Michel on 24 Aug 1836 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA. Michel (daughter of Bumgarner, Amon Davidson Sr and Miller, Sarah C) was born on 20 May 1816 in Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 Jan 1891 in Greene, Tennessee, USA; was buried after 28 Jan 1891 in New Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Baileyton, Greene, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phillips, John Elijah was born on 27 Aug 1841 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; died on 30 Mar 1928 in Piney Flats, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; was buried on 31 Mar 1928 in New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA.

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• FSID: LCXT-9K1
• Military: Between 1812 and 1815, Kentucky, USA; Pvt. Phillips was a member of the 17th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, known as Francesco's Militia He was discharged as a private
• Residence: 1850, Pike, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Nathan Phillips was the son of Thomas and Mary Phillips. Thomas who was born in 1755 in Dorchester, Maryland, the son of Philemon Phillips.

Nathan and Nancy Elledge were married by Joseph Harper in Bath County, Kentucky, 12 Dec 1818. He was a physician. On 22 October 1828, their small family became the third family of their settlement group to arrive in Griggsville, Pike County, Illinois. The Elledges, Scholls, and Boones were a family unit, descendants of Squire and Rebecca Morgan Boone. They were on the road as soon as the Western Lands were open for settlement.

Military records show, and in September 1861 Nancy, as a widow, swore that her husband entered service in Fayette County. She stated the discharge papers had been destroyed by fire when their home burned about 15 Feb 1829. Pvt. Phillips was a member of the 17th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, known as Francesco's Militia He was discharged as a private.
**Source: Gene Clark in Genealogy Trails, Pike County Illinois

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Dr. Philips died in 1852 and was buried in the old, now defunct Phillips-Davis Cemetery, located on a river bluff near the Illinois River. Nature has reclaimed the area. The stone marker that was placed on his grave in the old cemetery has been repaired. It now stands in Bethel Cemetery. It is not known if his remains were reinterred; but that was a common practice in the mid 1800s.

Comtributed by Anna Jaech

Nathan married Elledge, Nancy on 12 Dec 1818 in Bath, Kentucky, USA. Nancy (daughter of Elledge, Francis and Boone, Charity Ann) was born on 4 Oct 1788 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; died in 1861 in Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA; was buried in 1861 in Mann-Turman Prairie Cemetery, Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LKZ8-QPH
• Residence: 1850, Pike, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Daughter of Francis Elledge (1749-1844) and Charity Boone Elledge (1758-1853), who were of the durable pioneer group that left Pennsylvania seeking the freedom of the wilderness of North Carolina where they paused for a time before claiming the wilds of Kentucky. Her parents were born in North Carolina and died in a lovely settlement overlooking the Mississippi River in western Illinois.

Charity Boone Elledge was the daughter of Edward Boone (#8319109) and Martha Bryan Elledge (#42701142). Edward was six years younger than his brother, Daniel Boone. Martha Bryan was only one year younger than her sister, Rebecca Bryan Boone, wife of Daniel.

And so the mother of Nancy Elledge Phillips was the grand niece niece of both Daniel Boone & his wife, Rebecca.

Contributed by Anna Jaech

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• FSID: M7T8-R11

Thomas married Powell, Mary. Mary was born on 15 Apr 1744 in Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales; was christened on 15 Apr 1744 in Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LHXP-4DB
• Baptism: 15 Apr 1744, Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales

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• FSID: LT7H-5KF

Notes:

"Here, too, (meaning the Benjamin Elledge Burying Grounds-kr) undoubtedly is the dust of Charity Elledge, mother of Benjamin Elledge and an own daughter of the Boones. While there is no conclusive proof, it is probable that Benjamin's father, Francis Elledge, is also buried here. No fragment of stone found at this place bears any lettering that could be connected with Francis Elledge, but the writings of Edward Boone Scholl indicate that Francis and Charity were buried together near Griggsville, while the late Samuel Peake of Winchester remembered distinctly having been told that old Jesse Elledge's mother was buried across the river in Pike county. A small fragment of stone found on the cemetery site bears the last three letters of the name "Charity," doubtless being a fragment of a stone erected at the grave of "Charity, wife of Francis Elledge."

Francis and Charity both lived to a great old age. Francis Elledge was born in North Carolina in March, 1749. Both he and Charity, according to Boone Scholl, "lived past 95." Francis must, therefore, have died about the year 1844. Records left by descendants of his daughter, Mary Elledge Alcorn, indicate that he was a son of William Elledge and Sarah Kindred, pioneers in the Shenandoah Valley, in the county of Augusta, Virginia, where the William Scholls, parents of Pike county Abraham, challenged the ancient wilderness. It is probable that the early Scholls and the early Elledges came together out of the Shenandoah Valley into North Carolina.

Charity Boone, eldest daughter of Edward (Neddie) Boone and Martha Bryan, was born in October, 1758. She died about the year 1853. Mrs. Spraker in "The Boone Family" says: "Charity Boone married Francis Elledge or Ellege or Willege. They followed their children into Illinois, settling near Winchester, where they both died— he first, and she later, about 1853." It is likely that Francis and Charity lived for a time with some of their children in Old Morgan, now Scott county, coming later in their old age to the home of the son near Griggsville. There is no mention, however, of either of them in records of Old Morgan or in Scott county, erected therefrom in 1839.

Francis Elledge and Charity Boone were married in North Carolina in 1778, in the time of the Revolution. They came out to Kentucky with her father, Edward Boone and his family, in a pack train headed by Daniel Boone, in 1779, reaching famous Fort Boonesborough on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day, 1779.

During that first winter in Kentucky, they suffered the hardships common to all the settlers in that new land. That winter was the bitterest in 18th century Kentucky history. While the patriots of the Revolution were suffering awful agonies in the huts of Morristown, the settlers of Kentucky faced famine in an inhospitable land. The cold had set in early. Deep snows, crusted on top, filled the wilderness. Game was gaunt with hunger. There was only one consolation, the bitter cold kept the Indians at home. Boone hunted, going far afield, seeking to relieve the suffering. The wolf was at the door of nearly every cabin in Kentucky.

Boone divided his corn, to the last few grains, with the newcomers. When spring came, and the sap began to flow, the lean buffaloes came into the sugar camps and could with difficulty be driven away, so starved were they. Amid such privations, Francis and Charity established a home in the Kentucky land.

In 1781, Francis and Charity appear to have been at Squire Boone's Station on Brashear Creek; at least there is record of Francis Elledge being wounded in an Indian ambuscade during the retreat of the whites from this station in September that year. Two or three of Francis and Charity's children had then been born.

In an early chapter the writer suggested that Francis Elledge and Charity Boone had other children than the eight who were then definitely known. There was considerable evidence that three others associated with the history of the Illinois country derived from the same parentage. A recent discovery of an old record at Maysville in the home of William Riley Willsey, 83-year-old descendant of the Boones, proves that Francis and Charity had in fact 11 children.

This record of Charity Boone's children was handed down to Mr. Willsey by a grandson of Mary Elledge Alcorn, daughter of Francis Elledge and Charity Boone and a sister of Benjamin, Boone, James and Jesse Elledge of early Griggsville. This record was written down by Mr. Willsey in an old account book and is as follows:

"Francis Elledge born 1749 - Charity Elledge born 1758 - father and mother of Mary Elledge, James Elledge, Benjamin Elledge, Boone Elledge, Patsy Elledge, Nancy Elledge, Edward Elledge, Charity Elledge, William Elledge, Jesse Elledge, Jemima Elledge. Record given me by Cousin Willie Alcorn, son of Uncle Jesse." (Note: Charity, named above, was also known as Sarah, and Jemima, who married William Scholl, was known also as Martha.)

Mr. Willsey's mother, Malinda Rogers, was a daughter of David Redmon and Fanny Alcorn Rogers, she being a daughter of Robert (Robin) Alcorn and Mary Elledge. Three of Mary Elledge's sons, William, Benjamin and Jesse Alcorn, were prominent in early Pike county.

Much confusion exists among descendants of Charity Boone as to whose daughter she was. Numerous of them were brought up in the belief that she was a daughter of old Daniel, whereas she was the eldest daughter of Daniel's younger brother, Edward. Mr. Willsey is one of Charity Boone's descendants who long believed that he descended directly from the famous Indian fighter. In his old account book, the writer found this entry:

"My Grandmother, Fanny Rogers (nee) Alcorn, said to me that her mother was a daughter of Daniel Boone.
-W. R. Willsey." Also this entry:

"Benjamin Alcorn said Charity (Charity Boone Elledge) was a daughter of old Daniel Boone, the great hunter."

Benjamin Alcorn, born in Kentucky in 1814, is buried in the old Shinn cemetery near Summer Hill, which contains also the dust of Pioneer Daniel Shinn. Jesse Alcorn is buried at Griggsville. William's burial place is unknown.

In W. R. Willsey's library is a copy of W. H. Bogart's "Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky." In this book is a picture of Daniel Boone, clad in hunting costume and coonskin cap. Underneath this picture, Mr. Willsey has written: "My Great Great Grandfather."

Mr. Willsey states that at a later time he was informed by Jesse Alcorn, who was a younger son of Charity Boone's daughter, Mary, that Charity was a daughter of Edward Boone and a niece of Daniel.

Among the Alcorn records is an old woodcut representing the artist's conception of the killing of Edward Boone by the Indians in Kentucky on October 5, 1780. This picture is from an original drawing from the "Life of Daniel Boone," by William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), published in 1888. It is entitled "The Killing and Scalping of Boone's Brother." It shows six Indians, bedecked with war paint and feathers, three mounted, three on foot, one of them lifting the hair of the fallen Elledge ancestor with his left hand while in the other gleams the scalping knife at the victim's scalp. The scene is a bit of grassy meadow in a Kentucky valley, where Edward and his brother Daniel had paused to graze their horses, Edward falling under the fire of hidden Indians as he sat against a tree cracking hickory nuts on a stone in his lap. Daniel on this occasion escaped the redskins after killing their pursuing dog, described by Edward's Pike county grandson, Edward Boone Scholl, as a "smell hound.""

Francis married Boone, Charity Ann. Charity (daughter of Boone, Edward and Bryan, Martha) was born on 11 Oct 1758 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 7 Apr 1843 in Pike, Illinois, USA; was buried after 7 Apr 1843 in Benjamin Elledge Cemetery, Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LHFD-ND8

Notes:

In the deed given by Reynolds Elledge (son of Benjamin) to the Sleights in 1865, the grantors (Reynolds M. Elledge and his wife Zerilda) reserved one-eighth of an acre, a plot 4 ½ rods square, for "a burying ground for the heirs of the late Benjamin Elledge deceased," the plot being described with great particularity. This burial plot was 60 rods north and 32 rods east of the southwest corner of the old Elledge 80. It lay about 100 yards from the early Elledge log house; it is today traversed by a farm driveway, along which are strewn a few fragments of stones that once marked the burials of numerous descendants of the Boone line."
… >The cemetery is located in Griggsville Township.

Sometime in the past, tombstones found in the Benjamin Elledge cemetery were moved to a shed/garage/barn to be protected. They have since been moved (by persons unknown) to the Uriah Elledge Cemetery. It is unknown if there are remaining stones buried underground in the old Benjamin Elledge cemetery location.

The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky
The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky

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• FSID: 9W15-Z4V
• Life Event: Between 1757 and 1779; Deacon/Baptist Church
• Life Event: Between 1757 and 1779, Yadkin, North Carolina, USA; Road Surveyor/Tax Collector/Constable
• Migration: 1779, Bryan Station, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA; Left North Carolina for Kentucky
• Residence: Between 1779 and 1780, Blue Lick, Clark, Kentucky, USA

Notes:

find a grave memorial # 8319109

Edward (Ned) Boone
It has long been understood that Edward Boone looked like his older brother, Daniel. (Draper Mss. 2C53). Edward and Daniel married sisters, Martha and Rebecca Bryan, but the brothers? similarities may have ended there.
While Daniel was off exploring the woods and cutting new trails, Edward stayed home with his family in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Edward and Martha had six children, Charity b. 1760, Jane b. 1762, Mary b. 1764, George b. 1767, Joseph b. 1768, and Sarah b. 1771. It was during these years until 1779 that Edward was a community and church leader in NC.
He served on juries, was a road surveyor, a tax collector, and a constable. (Wilkes Co. Court Minutes, June 1778)
Although for many years the Boones had been Quakers, Edward was baptized in the Mulberry Fields Branch of the Dutchman Creek Baptist Church, Jan. 22, 1774. It was said he loved to sing. He served his church as a deacon and a clerk (Draper 23C10). He was "called Ned by his family and friends," says his grandson Edward Boone Scholl, and Edward Boone "was "a peace man." (Draper Manuscript 23C17.4)
On September 9, 1779, Edward entered 200 acres of land "lying on Beavers Creek adjoining to Thos. Henderson Beginning and running so as to include his improvements." (Wilkes Co. Land Entry Book N. p. 393)
Only about a month later, in October 1779 he made that fateful decision to move his family to Kentucky with Daniel who was leading a large party of family members there for the promise of free land.
Edward and Martha hastily gathered their family and all their belongings and joined the other family members from NC. In Draper Ms. 23C17.4, Edward Boone Scholl said, "Edward Boone packed 22 horses in addition to the ones the family rode."
They traveled through the Cumberland Gap, up the Wilderness Trail, and settled at Boone Station not far from Ft. Boonesborough, arriving December 22, 1779. Fifteen other family members shared the station. (Draper letter from Edward?s daughter, Sarah, Mss. 22C55)
Gerald E. Collins in his book "Edward Boone (1740-1780), p. 7, says "The Virginia government had authority to issue land certificates for 400 acres where a settler?s right of occupation was established. Hearings began October 13, 1779. If the settlers in NC were to receive valid land claims, it was imperative that they return to Kentucky and submit their claim. Thus a large group from NC set out for Kentucky in October 1779. The exodus was described by one man as like an army movement, and when they camped for the night, would be in a string a half-mile long.
After meeting with the Virginia Land Commission, Daniel Boone, his brother, Squire and his son, Israel, established their claims and were granted lands by the commission? Edward apparently did not receive any land.
He continued living at Boone Station, caring for his family and hunting for food to also share with the Bryan family at Bryan Station. Joseph Bryan was his father-in-law and one of the founders of Bryan Station.
Because the area of Boone Station was so remote and traveling to the county seat was dangerous at best, Edward was one of the signers on May 1, 1780, of Petition #12 that resulted in splitting Kentucky County, Virginia, into 3 counties: Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Part of the petition reads, "That the Militia Inhabitants of the north side of Kaintucky amount to about 400 with 11 fortified posts ? that the nearest settlement to the Courthouse is at least 40 miles and the farthest about 70 miles ? that the River Kentuckey is rendered impassable half the year by high waters & is ever inconvenient and Dangerous ?" The petition was approved by the Virginia Legislature.
Edward had lived in Kentucky less than a year when on October 6, 1780, he was killed by Indians (probably Shawnee) while he and Daniel were returning from the Blue Licks to make salt and do a little hunting.
They stopped along a stream in Bourbon County to rest and let their horses drink. Edward sat down by the stream near an old Buckeye tree and was cracking nuts, while Daniel went off into the woods in pursuit of game.
Indians lurking nearby shot and killed Edward but Daniel managed to escape. He ran all the way on foot to Boone Station (about 40 miles) where they were all living at the time. The next morning Daniel and a party of men in the area went in search of Edward?s killers. They did not find the Indians, but found and buried Edward near that old Buckeye tree.
Today in that very spot stands an old Buckeye tree, perhaps grown from a seedling of the original tree. The creek was afterward named Boone Creek in honor of Edward?s death there. As Jeff Johnson, a descendant of Edward Boone, says of the death site, "the bubbling sounds of the stream running over the rocks is probably the last sounds Edward heard as he lay dying."
Ned's daughter, Sarah Boone Hunter, in a letter to Draper (22C60) said "My father was killed 40 miles from the Station. He was stabbed in 7 places; his fingers were horribly cut with the Indian's knife. He was scalped and part of his clothing were taken off. I think his coat and pantaloons."
Although still a young woman, Martha never remarried and remained in Kentucky until her death.
Source: boonesociety.org familysearch.org

Buried:
Rockbridge Graveyard

Edward married Bryan, Martha in 1758 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA. Martha was born on 19 Mar 1737 in Orange, Virginia, USA; died on 12 May 1793 in Blue Lick, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA; was buried after 12 May 1793 in Boones Creek Cemetery, Athens, Fayette, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L58S-S9V

Notes:

Martha Bryan was a daughter of Joseph Bryan and Hester (Hampton) Bryan.

Martha Bryan married Edward Boone. They had six children.

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NOTES:
From: Clark County, Kentucky Will Abstracts
Will Book - I
Martha Boone
My sons, George and Joseph.
My daughters, Charity Ellsay, Sarah Hunter, Jane Morgan, and Mary Sholl.
Grandson, Joseph Hunter
Written: 12 May 1793.
Witnesses: William Creyerap and John Stilwell.
Probated: 23 July 1793
**Martha Bryan Boone's death occurred on or after May 12, 1793 and before July 23, 1793.

Reference shared by Dolores J. Rush on August 16, 2017:
From: The Boone Family - A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone who Came to America in 1717
Compiled by Hazel Atterbury Spraker of Buffalo, New York
The Tuttle Company, Publishers
Rutland, Vermont
1922
Martha Boone
My sons, George and Joseph.
My daughters, Charity Ellege, [other possible spellings of married name, Elledge, Willege], Jane
Morgan, Mary Scholl, Sarah Hunter
Grandson, Joseph Hunter
Executor: John Morgan, Jr.
Witnesses shown as: John Morran, William Craycraft and John Stilwell.

From margaret on May 14, 2016:
Corrected birth date and birth place.
**Previously had November 19, 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Corrected death date and death place.
**Previously had October 6, 1780 in Clark County, Kentucky.

From Annette Fullington on December 17, 2018:
Hester Hampton born 1720 in Va. and died 19 Nov 1740 was the first wife of Joseph Bryan Sr. and the Mother of Rebecca Bryan and Martha Bryan who married Daniel and Edward Boone. Not Alice Lynville.

From L. S. Stephens on January 18, 2019:
Suggested birth date: November 19, 1740
**Previously had this date before making the change per margaret's suggestion on May 14, 2016.
Suggested birth place: Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Suggested death date: July 23, 1793.
**This was her probate date.
Suggested death place: Clark County, Kentucky.
**Previously had Clark County before making the change per margaret's suggestion on May 14, 2016.

From janicet on May 1, 2020:
"It has been determined by the DAR genealogists that they cannot verify the mother of any children of Joseph Bryan's born before 1755 (see Joseph Bryan's updated records in the DAR)."
**Quaker Meeting Records-1681-1935 shows Martha Bryan's parents as Joseph and Alee (could be Alic -- maybe Alec).

There seems to be a lot of different opinions about the dates and places for Martha Boone. If someone can provide the correct dates and places, I will be happy to make the changes. For now, I will leave them as they stand.

On this memorial page when it was transferred to me:
LDS reports she is buried at "Boone's Creek" Fayette CO., KY.

If anyone has more/better information, please contact me.