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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BOON, Mark
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 313-314
MARK BOON
Mark (1824-1896) was a native of Appledore, Kent county, England, and came to
America with his parents in 1828. His wife was Annie Chaplin, also a native
of England, who came in 1844 at the age of 17. Mr. Boon came from Warm
Springs to Monroe in 1860 to engage in the mercantile business at Greenville;
but the war demoralizing commercial operations, he engaged in hospital and
field service. In the spring that the war closed he set up as a tailor at
Greenville and was also a partner with his brother Daniel in a store. They
dissolved partnership in 1878, and after merchandising four years at Hunter's
Springs he purchased the Swinny farm near Lindside. In connection with his
farm he conducted a store which he opened in that village in 1880. C: Sarah
A. (David Watts of Wilson, 1874)-Lydia V. (Thomas Shider)-John W. (Margaret
J. Thompson, 1879)-Cary L., (Annie E. Swope)-Wilber F. (Nora Brown, 1893).
Five other children did not reach maturity and neither of the daughters is
now living. The sons all engaged in the mercantile business, but W. F.
forsook it to follow railroad and carpenter work. J. W. has been a merchant
at Greenville since 1880. of his children, Arthur, Charles, and Kate are
associated with him in his store. The others are Ethel J. (Robert E. Riner)
and Frederick M. (Bertha Gilman). The last named is an insurance agent at
Huntington, W. Va.
Daniel, brother to Mark, (Martha E. Hughart of Ervin), served four years in
the Confederate army and was later a farmer and merchant of Greenville and
vicinity. He died in 1915. C: George E. (Zora E. Hill) -James A. (Nannie
Pence). Tile former is a traveling salesman, the latter a physician in N. Y.
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