Submitted by:
Robert C. Irvin
Noblesvllle, md.
District No. 2


SLAVES IN i1~ADISO~ COtTNTY
CARL BOONE


Reference:	Personal interview with Carl Boone, 1~nderson, Indiana

	This is a story of slavery, told by Carl Boone about his father, his mother and himself. Carl is the last of eighteen children born to ars. Stephen ~3oone, in 1~rion 0ounty, Kentucky, Sept. 15, 1850. ~e now resides with his children at 801 West 13th Street, Anderson, L~adison County, Indiana. At the ripe old age of eighty-seven, he still has a keen ~mory and is able to do a hard day‘s work.

	Carl Boone was born a free man, fifteen years before the close of the Civil ~1Iar, his father hating gained his freedom from slavery in 1829. 11e is a religious man, having missed church service only twice in twenty years. He was treated well during the time of slavery in the southland, but remembers well, the wrongs done to slaves on ri4~ghboring plantations, and in this story he relates some of the horrors which happened at that timel

	Like his father, he is also the father of eighteen children, sixteen of whom are still living. He is grandfather of thti~y-seven and great grandfather of one child. His father was born in the slave state of ~~aryland, in 1800, and died in 1897, His mother was born in Marion County, kentucky, in 1802, and died in 1917, at the age of one hundred and fifteen years.

	Thj~ story, word by word, is related by Carl Boone as follows:

“VLy naine is Carl Boone, son of Stephen andRachel Boone, born in

Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. 1 am fatber of eighteen children sixteen are still living and I sin grandfather of ~ thirty-seven and