U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hull, William Boon (1824-1906) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 483-484 WILLIAM BOON HULL, born in Highland County, Va., November 9, 1824. Married Mary Ann Hoover, September 3, 1849, and the same year they came to the West Fork River waters and located on what is now known as Straight Fork, W. Va. Children: Laura Elizabeth, James Wesley, Joseph Crawford, William Boon, Jr., Olive Arminta, Florence Bell, Mary Susan, Iris Wade, and Charles Lee. The great great grandfather of William Boon Hull was Adam Hull. The grandfather of Peter Hull. The grandmother was Hester Kester of Pendleton County. The subject of this sketch is removed but three generations from the great hunter and scout, Daniel Boone, for whom he was named, and from whom he inherited his great love of hunting. He was young in spirit, always anxious to engage with the boys in their games at school and elsewhere, and was liked by young people very much. He made a reputation in keeping bees, whose honey was marketed in all the country around and could only be excelled by the maple sugar and syrup, which he made. He was one of the old pioneers who came and bought land covered with thick forests and cleared out a large farm, paying for it in selling the products thereof, while raising his large family. Mr. Hull lived a life of earnest faithfulness in all details, such that erects its own monument in the hearts of his neighbors and friends more lasting than granite. He was a member of the M. E. Church, South. In politics a Democrat, and he died July 11, 1906, and is buried in the Chestnut Flat Cemetery, near his old home. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------