In Ashe County, located in North Carolina’s far northwestern corner, lies a cemetery with an unusual gravestone. It is an elongated rock, protruding 5.8 feet from the ground and only six and a half inches wide. The story behind the stone involves one of America’s most famous frontiersmen. Daniel Boone lived in North Carolina 24 years before moving to Kentucky. He was a hunting companion of early Ashe resident Thomas Callaway, and had a hunting camp near where he lived. The relationship between the two is supported somewhat by the…
