The families of G.W. Osborne and Frankie Wilson Osborne helped settle the Appalachian frontier and defeat the British Armies in the Revolutionary War. In our examination of our pioneer ancestors, I begin with one of our most famous ancestral families, the Boones. Yes, my generation's 6th great uncle was Daniel Boone himself. But let's begin the story in England where we first have information on our earlier grandparents. In 1636, Charles I (Portrait and book right) was on the throne of England, fighting verbally and, within a decade physically, with his Parliament. England was on the edge of a civil war that would determine whether political power lay with the House of Commons or the Crown. This civil war would be important for the development of representative democracy in the American colonies as well as in England.
In that year in the southwestern part of the country, near Exeter, in a village known as Stoke Canon, one George Boone was born. His parents are unknown according to authorities at the Boone Society. George Boone earned his living as a blacksmith, and died 1696. He and his wife, Sarah Mary Oppy, are buried at St.Magdelene Parish in Stoke Canon.
They married in 1665, and the next year, 1666, a son, anotherGeorge Boone, entered the world.
While this second George Boone grew to manhood, England suffered through a violent civil war which resulted in
