Joseph Scholl

The Boone Family book states that Joseph Scholl was born in 1755, son of William and Leah Morgan Scholl, in Page County, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia¹.  Joseph would have grown to be a young man living on land lying near what is now Newmarket, Virginia, in the Upper Shenandoah Valley.  This land was in the tract owned by his grandfather, Peter Scholl.

The extended William Scholl family including Joseph and his brothers arrived at Boonesborough on December 25, 1779² and moved on to Boone’s Station that same day.  Boone's Station, several miles northwest of Boonesborough, was where Daniel Boone built his log house.  This location was within the then limits of Fayette County, near the present site of Athens, and 12 miles southeast of  Lexington.  Joseph was with his father, brothers (Peter and Abraham) and Daniel Boone at the Battle of the Blue Licks (August 1782) and, as such, is listed as a Revolutionary War patriot with the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Joseph, with his family, settled at Boone's Station along with the Daniel, Samuel, and Edward Boone families, and the William Hays family.  In the fall of 1784, Daniel Boone and his sons-in-law, William Hays and Joseph Scholl moved from Boone's Station and settled about five miles away on Marble Creek north of the Kentucky River³.

Prior to the fall of 1784 while still in Clark County, Joseph married Levina Boone, daughter of the famous pioneer, Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone.  He was 29 and she was 18 years old.They had the following children^4,5:

     Selah (Celia), 1786- March 7, 1814 , who married James Evans

              Jesse Boone Scholl, October 17, 1791 - August 1, 1841, who married Elizabeth Miller

     Marcia, 1791?-1814, who married James Holliday

     Marcus, 1798-1868, married Mary Ann Haggard

     Daniel Boone, 1799(?)-

             Joseph Scholl II, June 15, 1800 - May 10, 1884, who married Rebecca Van Meter Miller and Eliza Ann Broughton

In the fall of 1784, Daniel Boone and his sons-in-law, William Hays and Joseph Scholl, moved from Boone's Station and settled about five miles away on Marble Creek north of the Kentucky River.⁵  Joseph Scholl is noted in the 1788 tax list from Fayette County, Kentucky as well as the 1790 list (although his name is spelled as Schull). 

The Pike County History⁶, gives the following account of Joseph’s home in Clark County:

"In 1792 (the year that Kentucky became a state), Joseph and his brothers (Peter and Abraham) established themselves on a 1400-acre tract that had been preempted by Daniel Boone about ten miles east of present Winchester in present Clark County, Kentucky, and about 15 northeast of Boonesborough.  Here the three Scholls established the station of Schollsville, site of the present railroad station of Hedges, which stands near the center of the old Boone-Scholl tract.  This land was settled and preempted by Daniel Boone, who afterward assigned it to William Scholl.  William intended it for his three sons, Peter, Abraham and Joseph, but made no legal transfer and died without a will, and the rest of his children brought suit for an equal partitioning of this land and won.  The land was divided among the heirs of William Scholl by an order of the court.  Abraham, Peter and Joseph then bought out the other heirs and continued in possession of Schollsville."

"Schollsville Station was never attacked but was threatened in 1793.  The Scholls were warned and all the men nearby came into the fort to defend it.  The Indians suddenly turned east and attacked Morgan's Station and captured or killed all the inmates excepting an old Negro who saw a crow light on the barn and regarded it as an evil omen and he made his way out of the fort and escaped."

He is shown as Joseph School in the 1800 list from Clark County, Kentucky.

About 1803 or '04 Joseph, Jesse B. Boone, David Denton and one Van Bibber went to Missouri to see the country.  Joseph had a fine new rifle made for him by Daniel Bryan (nephew of Daniel Boone), a famous rifle maker in his day⁷.

The 1810 census for Clark County, Kentucky, shows Joseph Scholl as follows:

            1 male under 10          Joseph II, 10

            1 male 10-15               Daniel, 11, and Marcus, 12

            2 males 16-25              Septimus, 21, and Jesse, 19

            1 male over 45             Joseph,

            1 female 10-15             Leah, 15 [Celia and Marcia are married]

            6 slaves

 By 1830, his sons, Septimus, Jesse Boone, and Joseph II had moved to Callaway County, Missouri, and the daughters were married remaining in Kentucky.

At the age of around 78, Joseph Scholl died in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1833 (January 15⁸) or 1835⁹.   He is presumed to be buried near his home in Schollsville.

Levina Boone Scholl

Levina Boone Scholl was born March 23, 1766 to Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone in Sugar Creek, Rowan County, North Carolina.  In 1799, she and her family moved to near Boonesborough, Kentucky.  She died at the young age of 35 on April 6, 1802 in Clark County¹⁰.  She left eight young children ranging in age from 2 to 13 who must have nurtured into adulthood by the extended Scholl and Boone families in Schollsville.  Not much has been written or is known about Levina other than as a daughter of her famous father, Daniel Boone, companion to her husband and mother to her children.

Source Notes

1.   Spraker, Helen Atterbury: The Boone Family, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974, page 121 [Originally published in Rutland, Vermont, 1922].

2.  Thompson, Jess M.: Pike County History, Pike County [Illinois] Historical Society, 1967, Chapter 43, page 124.

3.  Thompson, Jess M.: Pike County History, Pike County [Illinois] Historical Society, 1967, Chapter 45 - Boone and Scholl Spread Out in Kentucky and Finally Move to Missouri and Illinois, pages 130-133.

4.   Spraker, Helen Atterbury: The Boone Family, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974, page 121-122 [Originally published in Rutland, Vermont, 1922].

5.  Family notes.

6.  Thompson, Jess M.: Pike County History, Pike County [Illinois] Historical Society, 1967, Chapter 45 - Boone and Scholl Spread Out in Kentucky and Finally Move to Missouri and Illinois, pages 130-133.

7.  Spraker, Helen Atterbury: The Boone Family, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974, page 121 [Originally published in Rutland, Vermont, 1922].

8.  Thompson, Jess M.: Pike County History, Pike County [Illinois] Historical Society, 1967, Chapter 45 - Boone and Scholl Spread Out in Kentucky and Finally Move to Missouri and Illinois, pages 304.

9.  Spraker, Helen Atterbury: The Boone Family, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974, page 121 [Originally published in Rutland, Vermont, 1922].

10. Spraker, Helen Atterbury: The Boone Family, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974, page 121 [Originally published in Rutland, Vermont, 1922].