Joseph B. "Scrap" Young, Quantrill Raider

[52ndFandS]

If I was scripting a NETFLIX treatment, morning roll calls would have been a spectacle of obscenities.

[For those of you who have never experienced it, the more formal roll calls are conducted in formation by the First Sergeant - who reads through his roster alphabetically and each man is to respond *present*. Somehow, I think that was different with these fellows]

Who wants to know? Heh?"

 

[Borderruffian]

If I was scripting a NETFLIX treatment, morning roll calls would have been a spectacle of obscenities.

[For those of you who have never experienced it, the more formal roll calls are conducted in formation by the First Sergeant - who reads through his roster alphabetically and each man is to respond *present*. Somehow, I think that was different with these fellows]

From the Bravo Roster that does not include person's on Mess Duty, Guard,duty, Maintenance, Schools, Leave or Liberty or carried as AU Or in the Brig.

 

[Story]

From the Bravo Roster that does not include person's on Mess Duty, Guard,duty, Maintenance, Schools, Leave or Liberty or carried as AU Or in the Brig.

Colour Sergeant Bourne : Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You're alive.

Pvt. Hitch : I am? Oh, thanks very much.​

 

[Booner]

His son, William Young, was with Upton Hays 12 Missouri Cav. Hays went into Westport, Missouri with three of Quantrill's men, Boone Muir, Cole Younger and Dick Yeager, along with two of his own men, Young and Virgil Miller, where they got into a fight with approximately 50 Feds. Pages 94, 95 of "Noted Guerrillas." William is in Kansas City's Elmwood Cemetery.

Let's not forget James "Jim Crow" Chiles, who was Pres. Truman's uncle, and a rather interesting fellow who was killed by the Marshal of Independence, Mo in 1873. I get the feeling that Jim wasn't talked about much by the family. My impression of him is that he wasn't someone you wanted to mess with.

Upton Hays and Boone Muir were great grandsons of Daniel Boone. Dick Yeager was a brother-in-law to the Muir's.

 

[Borderruffian]

Let's not forget James "Jim Crow" Chiles, who was Pres. Truman's uncle, and a rather interesting fellow who was killed by the Marshal of Independence, Mo in 1873. I get the feeling that Jim wasn't talked about much by the family. My impression of him is that he wasn't someone you wanted to mess with.

Upton Hays and Boone Muir were great grandsons of Daniel Boone. Dick Yeager was a brother-in-law to the Muir's.

The Callaway's were Grandsons of Boone and settled in Loutre Lick now Mineola in Western Montgomery County. One of them kept a tavarn that still stands and is a private residence the vestiges of the old Ford is still in the area too and of Course up the road in Danville there's a few period buildings still standing that were there during the 64 raid and 61 skirmish.

 

[Booner]

I hate to be guilty of "tread drift" but I've very interested in the Boone family history, (after all, I do live in Boonville), and since there were quite a few of the descendants of Daniel Boone who rode with Quantrill , I can't help but expound upon that idea. All of the following descendants were through the daughters of the Daniel Morgan Boone line (Daniel's son), who settled in Jackson County in the 1820's around the Swope Park area of southern Kansas City. If my memory serves me, (and that's questionable these days), part of Daniel Morgan Boone's original KC landholding was passed down to Upton Hays (Daniel's gg grandson). Daniel Morgan Boone is buried in the Boone-Hays Cemetary located in the area of 63rd & Prospect of southern KC, in the same general area of his original homesite. Prior to the war, Upton Hays was in the freighting business from Westport, Mo to Santa Fe NM. Upton is buried in the Forrest Hill Cemetery, K.C. Mo. behind the Confederate monument.

Boone T. Muir, was a cousin to Upton Hays, and also a gg grandson of Danile Boone through Daniel Morgan Boone, was one of the original members of the Quantrill guerillas as his name appears on the 1862 roster (containing 92 names). that was captured by the Union. Muir's middle name was "Traveller" as he was born in Cooper Co. Mo as his parents were in the process of moving from KY. to Jackson Co. Mo at the time of his birth. Some accounts list Muir as being killed in 1863 and buried in the (now abandoned) Smith Cemetery in Raytown, (I think it might also be called the Smith-Davis Cemetery), but I think those account have Muir confused with his cousin, Boone Scholl. I believe Muir died in 1916 in Belton Mo. and is buried there. Also buried in the Smith Cemetery are the two sisters of Riley Crawford who were killed in the KC jail Collapse. Muir's sister married Dick Yeager, and Dick Berry was also his cousin.

Cousins of Muir and Hays were the Scholl brothers, George and Boone Scholl, also G.G. Grandsons of Daniel through Daniel Morgan Boone. Boone Scholl was killed on June 17, 1863, at the Wornell Lane fight in Westport Missouri, along with Capt. Fernando Scott, and is buried in the abandoned Smith cemetery, Raytown MO. His brother George was also in the freighting business prior to the war and operated the Sargent & Scholl livery.

Off the top of my head, these four men were direct descendants of Daniel Boone, and I feel pretty confident that if I were to dig a little deeper, I'd come up with more names. I believe the four names mentioned all attended the same church, so is there any wonder that they are not related? I mean, how's a rural Missouri boy going to meet available women in the 1830's 1840's if he didn't go to church?

To bring my post back in line with the original topic, I don't find Joseph B. Young's name on that 1862 roster I mentioned above, but as its' been pointed out, he did take part in at least some of the early Quantrill raids as his participation was noted in at least one of the memoirs by a former guerilla. That roster was found on the body of a dead guerilla in the summer of 1862, by a Union soldier, and it's finding brought a lot of misery to the families whose names were on the list.

 

[Borderruffian]

I hate to be guilty of "tread drift" but I've very interested in the Boone family history, (after all, I do live in Boonville), and since there were quite a few of the descendants of Daniel Boone who rode with Quantrill , I can't help but expound upon that idea. All of the following descendants were through the daughters of the Daniel Morgan Boone line (Daniel's son), who settled in Jackson County in the 1820's around the Swope Park area of southern Kansas City. If my memory serves me, (and that's questionable these days), part of Daniel Morgan Boone's original KC landholding was passed down to Upton Hays (Daniel's gg grandson). Daniel Morgan Boone is buried in the Boone-Hays Cemetary located in the area of 63rd & Prospect of southern KC, in the same general area of his original homesite. Prior to the war, Upton Hays was in the freighting business from Westport, Mo to Santa Fe NM. Upton is buried in the Forrest Hill Cemetery, K.C. Mo. behind the Confederate monument.

Boone T. Muir, was a cousin to Upton Hays, and also a gg grandson of Danile Boone through Daniel Morgan Boone, was one of the original members of the Quantrill guerillas as his name appears on the 1862 roster (containing 92 names). that was captured by the Union. Muir's middle name was "Traveller" as he was born in Cooper Co. Mo as his parents were in the process of moving from KY. to Jackson Co. Mo at the time of his birth. Some accounts list Muir as being killed in 1863 and buried in the (now abandoned) Smith Cemetery in Raytown, (I think it might also be called the Smith-Davis Cemetery), but I think those account have Muir confused with his cousin, Boone Scholl. I believe Muir died in 1916 in Belton Mo. and is buried there. Also buried in the Smith Cemetery are the two sisters of Riley Crawford who were killed in the KC jail Collapse. Muir's sister married Dick Yeager, and Dick Berry was also his cousin.

Cousins of Muir and Hays were the Scholl brothers, George and Boone Scholl, also G.G. Grandsons of Daniel through Daniel Morgan Boone. Boone Scholl was killed on June 17, 1863, at the Wornell Lane fight in Westport Missouri, along with Capt. Fernando Scott, and is buried in the abandoned Smith cemetery, Raytown MO. His brother George was also in the freighting business prior to the war and operated the Sargent & Scholl livery.

Off the top of my head, these four men were direct descendants of Daniel Boone, and I feel pretty confident that if I were to dig a little deeper, I'd come up with more names. I believe the four names mentioned all attended the same church, so is there any wonder that they are not related? I mean, how's a rural Missouri boy going to meet available women in the 1830's 1840's if he didn't go to church?

To bring my post back in line with the original topic, I don't find Joseph B. Young's name on that 1862 roster I mentioned above, but as its' been pointed out, he did take part in at least some of the early Quantrill raids as his participation was noted in at least one of the memoirs by a former guerilla. That roster was found on the body of a dead guerilla in the summer of 1862, by a Union soldier, and it's finding brought a lot of misery to the families whose names were on the list.

Well I'm keeping with your drift of the thread Montgomery Little a Grand Nephew of Daniel Boone had a hand in helping raise Jackson's Company of Tennessee Cavalry AKA Forrest's Escort that included Lieutenant Nathaniel Boone.

 

[Booner]

I've always been interested in Daniel Boone. It probably started with Walt Disney's Sunday night show about Boone and Crocket.
I've read several books about him, but it wasn't until the last auto biography on Daniel Boone in Missouri that I figured something out. Boone is in KY which is Indian Territory and he's not supposed to be hunting in that territory because there's a treaty between Gr. Britain and the Indians in place that's supposed to keep the white man out of their hunting grounds.

Yet, Boone is there, hunting. And not just hunting to feed himself but killing game in such numbers so as to enrich himself.

He's a POACHER! The great pathfinder, the man who opened up the frontier for settlement, the man who was a legend in his own time, was-a-poacher.

It really doesn't matter all that much, as he was a man of his time, but I don't think he would fair to well if his life story was to gain the attention of certain parties today.

For me, I'm mainly interested in what he did in his later life here in Missouri.

It just goes to show that people can have an historical perspective on someone that they just simply accept, even when they are shown a different view of that person. It's almost like a person will believe the first story they hear and hold onto that story, even protect it, even after they have been shown something that disproves their previous beliefs. I give you the story of the guerrillas of Missouri as proof of my statement.

 

[Borderruffian]

I've always been interested in Daniel Boone. It probably started with Walt Disney's Sunday night show about Boone and Crocket.
I've read several books about him, but it wasn't until the last auto biography on Daniel Boone in Missouri that I figured something out. Boone is in KY which is Indian Territory and he's not supposed to be hunting in that territory because there's a treaty between Gr. Britain and the Indians in place that's supposed to keep the white man out of their hunting grounds.

Yet, Boone is there, hunting. And not just hunting to feed himself but killing game in such numbers so as to enrich himself.

He's a POACHER! The great pathfinder, the man who opened up the frontier for settlement, the man who was a legend in his own time, was-a-poacher.

It really doesn't matter all that much, as he was a man of his time, but I don't think he would fair to well if his life story was to gain the attention of certain parties today.

For me, I'm mainly interested in what he did in his later life here in Missouri.

It just goes to show that people can have an historical perspective on someone that they just simply accept, even when they are shown a different view of that person. It's almost like a person will believe the first story they hear and hold onto that story, even protect it, even after they have been shown something that disproves their previous beliefs. I give you the story of the guerrillas of Missouri as proof of my statement.

I remember the old Daniel Boone TV series with Fess Parker when I was young that was my show.. Loutre Lick and spring were reputed by Ol' Dan'l to have healing properties, apparently he stopped and settled there briefly after leaving St Charles County.