Boney

Daniel C. Boney

Corpl., Field Artillery, Hdqrs. Co., 55th Brigade, 113th Reg.; of Lenoir County; son of H. F. and Susan B. Boney. Entered service June, 1917, at Raleigh, N.C. Sent to Camp Sevier. Transferred to Montreal. Sailed for France May 26, 1918. Promoted to Corpl. Sept. 1, 1917. Fought at St. Mihiel, Argonne Forest. Wounded by shell at the battle of Argonne, Oct. 3, 1918. Sent to Base Hosp. No. 8, Savigny. Lost left arm and left knee joint. Gunshot wound in head. Returned to USA Jan. 24, 1919. Mustered out at Walter Reed Hospital, Oct. 13, 1919.

Slave Narrative of Victoria Taylor Thompson

Person Interviewed: Victoria Taylor Thompson Age: 80 My mother, Judy Taylor, named for her mistress, told me that I was born about three year before the war; that make me about 80 year old so they say down at the Indian Agency where my name is on the Cherokee rolls since all the land was give to the Indian families a long time ago. Father kept the name of ‘Doc’ Hayes, and my brother Coose was a Hayes too, but mother, Jude, Patsy, Bonaparte (Boney, we always called him), Lewis and me was always Taylors. Daddy was bought by the … Read more