Brief Life History of Nelson Israel
When Nelson Israel Boone was born on 27 January 1826, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, his father, Israel Boone, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Moore, was 38. He married Amelia "Milly" Hagler on 4 November 1845, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in District 12, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Bradley, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 8 April 1903, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Blue Springs, Bradley, Tennessee, United States.
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- Israel Boon, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Nelson Israel Boone - birth: about 1824; Wilkes, North Carolina, United States
- Israel Boone, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bon(e), boun, Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.
Dutch: variant of Boon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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