Daniel Austin Boon, Sr.

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Daniel Austin Boon is listed on his tombstone Birth 12 Aug 1819 Pike County, Mississippi Death 10 Oct 1886 (aged 67) Marion County, Mississippi Burial Boone Cemetery Lamar County, Mississippi

Pvt. Daniel Austin Boon (no -e), Sr. (b. Pike County, MS, 1819-d. Lamar County, MS, 1886), Co. G ("Marion Grays," raised in Marion County, MS), 2nd (Quinn's) MS Infantry Minute Men (State Troops). Enlisted July 21, 1862, at Columbia, Marion County, MS, at age 42. Sept. 4, 1862, company muster roll states "discharged Aug. 5 [1862 because of] disease of the kidney." No further information in his military file for this very short-term command. Southern Patriot! Buried in the Boone Cemetery, 31.20390 -89.38470, located at the S terminus of Boone Cemetery Road, Okahola, Lamar County, MS, with a private marker. [Note: Some databases state that Daniel Boon was a "Sharpshooter" in the 5th NC Infantry, but he never served in any command from that state and has no service records in any command from that state. In fact, he was born and lived in MS his whole life.] [Note: Some well-meaning family researchers have erroneously assumed that the Pvt. Daniel Boon who served as a clerk and laborer in the Quartermaster's Department at Camp Buckner, VA, under Capt. H.J. Kelly, is the Daniel Boon under consideration here, but he is not. They are simply two different men who share the same name.]