Jesse Sylvester Boone

1874-1961

LIFE SPAN FROM PRESIDENCY OF ULYSSES S. GRANT TO JOHN F. KENNEDY

birth  1874 May 6 Born in Fabius, Knox County, Missouri

1845 FABIUS WAS ESTABLISHED, 1897 SANTA FE RAILROAD EXTENDED TO FABIUS, POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED 1897-1935

FABIUS ORIGINALLY CUNNINGHAM’S SWITCH, CHANGED WHEN IKE CUNNINGHAM MOVED.

age 1 1875 birth of sister Ida 1875-1899

age 3  1877 birth of sister Anna 1877-1953

age 3  1877 death of William Robert Boone 1871-1877

age 5  1879 birth of brother Lafayette Boone 1879-1956

age 6  1880 residence in Benton, Knox County, Missouri

age 19 1893 death of Sarah Elizabeth Boone 1859-1893

age 22 1896 Sept 16 marriage Margaret Sarah Longfellow 1877-1953

age 25 1899 death of sister Ida Boone 1875-1899

age 26 1900 residence Anaconda City, Montana

1883 COPPER KING MARCUS DALY ESTABLISHED PROCESSING COPPER ORE INTO COPPER VIA SMELTER STACK (CLOSED IN 1980)

1889 MONTANA BECAME A STATE

age 30 1904 death of mother Ann Cunningham 1835-1904

age 31 1905 death of father Milton Clay Boone 1828-1905

age 31 1905 residence Polk, Iowa (?)

age 36 1910 residence White Cross, Ada, Idaho

age 42 1916 military registration card private Marine corps muster rolls

age 44 1918 May divorce from Margaret  (Maggie) Longfellow 

age 44 1918 July marriage Mary Virginia Brown 1900-1943 Salt Lake City, Utah

age 46 1919 Oct 4 birth of daughter Melva Virginia Boone 1919-2007 Boise, Idaho

age 46 1919 bought Early Dawn Dairy, Whitney, Idaho

RT. 4 BOISE IS MAILING ADDRESS FOR DAIRY

age 47  1920 residence Whitney, Ada, Idaho

age 48  1922 birth of son Ronald Fletcher Boone 1922-1993 Boise, Idaho

age 50  1924 bank took back dairy

age 50  1924 divorced Mary Virginia Brown

age 51 1925 remarried Mary Virginia Brown

  Vancouver B.C. residence started series of diners called The Filling Station

                     Eugene, Oregon

  Portland, Oregon

  Tacoma, Washington

                      Seattle, Washington

    Ballard, Washington

age 56  1930 residence  Oroville, Butte, California

OWNER AND MANAGER OF DINER

age 57  1931 residence Chico, California

OWNER AND MANAGER OF DINER

age 57   1931 residence Orland manager of ranch

age  64  1938 managed sheep ranch Middletown, California

age 64  1938 marriage to Leota Fanholtz 

age 65  1940 residence Ten Mile Drive, Mendocino, California

MANAGER OF DINER

age 66   1941 marriage of daughter Melva Boone to Floyd Swagerty Stockton, California

LIVED IN NAPA CALIFORNIA AND MANAGED PRODUCE DEPARTMENT IN LOCAL GROCERY STORE

age 67   1943 death of second wife Mary Virginia Brown Boone Foster

age 75  1949 death of brother Thomas Boone 1871-1949

age 76 lived in Napa, California

age 79  1953 death of sister Lucinda Boone 1869-1953

age 79  1953 death of sister Emma Jane Boone Bergee 1861-1953

age 79 1953 death of sister Anna Boone 1877-1953

age 79 1953 death of first wife Margaret Sarah Longfellow Boone Harrington

age 80 1954 death of sister Mary Maria Boone 1865-1954

age 82 1956 death of brother Lafayette Boone 1879-1956

age 86 1960 death of sister Annetta Boone Brown 1867-1960

age 87 death April 13 Napa, California

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