[Data furnished by Mr. J.C. Coulter, 1516 Richland Ave., Columbia, S.C.]
CATHERINE ROSANNA BOONE, born in Pennsylvania within or near the period 1730-40, died in Lincoln County, North Carolina about 1813; married Martin Coulter. She was probably a daughter of Joseph Boone ... and wife Catherine. The following evidence of this connection exists:-
An old piece of time-worn paper written by Catherine's son, Martin Coulter, Jr. and bearing the date June 6, 1846, is preserved by descendants. It reads:-
"My father was Martin Coulter. He came to this country from Germany in 1750. My mother was Catherine Rosanna Boone, cousin of Daniel Boone - Squire's Daniel. Brothers John and Philip, sister Catherine." (Signed) Martin Coulter.
Because of Catherine Rosanna Boone's early date of birth (her first child born in 1759) she was probably a grandchild of George Boone III and thus a first cousin of Daniel Boone, rather than a member of a later generation. Record has been found of the children of all of Daniel Boone's uncles except those of the uncle Joseph (born 1704), and not one of this long list of cousins bore the name Catherine. Therefore, if Catherine Rosanna Boone were a first cousin of Daniel Boone, her father could have been no other than Joseph. In addition to this evidence we have the significant fact of the Christian names used in this branch of the family. Catherine is not a name commonly used among the Boones of that period, bur the wife of Joseph Boone, son of George Boone III, bore that name. It can then be reasonably supposed that Catherine Rosanna Boone was named for a mother Catherine. Martin and Catherine Rosanna (Boone) Coulter had a daughter also named Catherine, who named her first son Joseph Boone Lowrance, presumably for his great-grandfather. All of these facts indicate descent from Joseph and Catherine Boone, and while no record of Joseph Boone's children has been found, there seems little doubt that one of them was this Catherine Rosanna (Boone) Coulter. ...
