Editing Daniel Boone (section)

==Death and burial==
Boone died on September 26, 1820, at his son [[Daniel Boone Home|Nathan Boone's home]] on Femme Osage Creek, Missouri.<ref>Belue, Ted Franklin, ''Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of His Remains. Cheltenham. Arcadia Publishing History Press. 2020.''</ref><ref>"Died--Colonel Daniel Boone" ''Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser. October 3, 1820.''</ref>He was buried next to Rebecca, who had died on March 18, 1813. The graves, which were unmarked until the mid-1830s, were near Jemima (Boone) Callaway's home on [[Tuque Creek]], about two miles (3&nbsp;km) from present-day [[Marthasville, Missouri]].

In 1845, the Boones' remains were disinterred and reburied in a [[Frankfort Cemetery|new cemetery]] in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]]. Resentment in Missouri about the disinterment grew over the years, and a legend arose that Boone's remains never left Missouri. According to this story, Boone's tombstone in Missouri had been inadvertently placed over the wrong grave, but no one had corrected the error—and that Boone's Missouri relatives, displeased with the Kentuckians who came to exhume Boone, kept quiet about the mistake and allowed the Kentuckians to dig up the wrong remains. No contemporary evidence indicates this actually happened, but in 1983, a [[Forensic anthropology|forensic anthropologist]] examined a crude plaster cast of Boone's skull made before the Kentucky reburial and announced it might be the skull of an African American. Black slaves were also buried at Tuque Creek, so it is possible that the wrong remains were mistakenly removed from the crowded graveyard. Both the Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky and the Old Bryan Farm graveyard in Missouri claim to have Boone's remains.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=354–362}}{{sfn|Jones|2005|pp=227–230}}