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- Maiden name on the headstone "Upper"; also known as "Uppey"
Documents owned by the Boone Society:
George Boone was buried ye thirty first of May 1696
Sarah Boon "wido" was buried ye 5th of February 1708 and she died aged 80 years, and never had an aching Bone, or decay'd Tooth."
The Boone Society has not been able to find the marriage or birth records for George Boone II and his wife Sarah, and cannot confirm her maiden name of Uppey."
Source: The Boone Society, Aug. 2012
Burial here per:
"The ecclesiastical parish of Stoke Canon is a small community only about five miles north of Exeter, County of Devon in England. Also known as St. Mary Magdalene, this is the church in which George Boone I and Sarah (Uppey/Opie) Boone baptized three of their children, Henry in 1663, George (II) in 1666, and John in 1673. Henry and John both were buried there; Henry at age four months, and John at age 20. George (I) and Sarah were buried there also; George I in 1696 and Sarah in 1708. No tombstones exist today for this family.
The Boone Society's English Research Committee has copies of the above mentioned baptism and burial records."
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