Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 571-572 [McCracken]

     ELI G. BOONE, a well known citizen of Paducah, Kentucky, who is
a large real estate dealer and insurance man in this city, was born
here May 2, 1852, a son of Richard T. and Lucy (Willett) Boone. 
Richard T. Boone was born in 1824, in Todd county, Kentucky, a son
of Hick Boone, of Virginia, and died at Paducah in 1894.  His wife
was born at Corydon, Indiana, where her father, George Willett, was
an early settler from Maryland, and she was reared in her native
state.  About 1847 she accompanied a relative, Eli Gaither, by way
of flatboat, to Paducah, where she met and married Richard T. Boone.
Here the parents of our subject lived during the remainder of their
lives, the mother dying in 1896, aged sixty-five years.  They had a
family of eleven children, and five of these, three sons and two
daughters, are still living.  Richard T. Boone was a contractor and
builder, and met with business success.  He was a man of excellent
mental caliber and occupied prominent positions in city and county.
In politics he was a Democrat and served several years as city
marshal, and later as county magistrate.  In religious belief he was
a Universalist and a man of the highest moral character.  For many
years he was prominent in Masonry and was the first Knight Templar
in Paducah.  Few men were more sincerely respected than was Richard
T. Boone.
     Eli G. Boone was reared at Paducah, and was educated in the
excellent schools of this city.  At the age of seventeen he began
his business career in the capacity of clerk in a grocery store, and
was thus employed for eleven years.  Mr. Boone then embarked in a
real estate business, later adding an insurance department, and has
met with very satisfactory success.  Like his father he is
identified with the Democratic party, and has served in a number of
the local offices.  In 1885 he was city assessor, and in 1895 was
tax collector.  For eighteen years he has been a member of the board
of education.
     In 1898 Mr. Boone was married to Miss Mattie Vaughan, who was
born in McCracken county, Kentucky, and is a daughter of S. C.
Vaughan, a retired citizen of Paducah.  For twelve years Mr. Boone
has been an active worker in the Christian church.  He holds
fraternal relations with the orders of Odd Fellows and the Knights
of Honor.

Boone Willett Gaither Vaughan
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Todd-KY VA IN MD

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