John Marvin Boone Family Photo Album

Boone Photo Album

John Marvin Boone & Stella Cathey Family Photo Album

Jack Daniel Boone's Flour Mill in Erin, TN around 1880

The parents of Marvin Boone were John Daniel "Jack" Boone (1844-1913) and Nancy Catherine "Kate" Graham (1853-1920) of Erin, Tennessee. According to a 1913 article in the Nashville Banner, J.D. Boone "was prominent in business affairs and ... was operating very successfully a large stock farm east of Erin and a flouring mill and a grist mill at Cumberland City at the time of his death." Jack worked as an engineer on the L&N Railroad for a time and later built a steam-powered rolling mill which he ran in Erin, and thus earned the nickname, "Flour mill Jack." Two of Jack's sons, Robert and Sydney, served as mayors of Erin in the early 1900s. Marvin Boone was born in Erin in 1884 and married Stella Cathey there in 1903 and they had six children before moving in 1922 to Nashville, TN where their youngest child, Sue, was born. A miller by trade, Marvin took over his father’s mill in Erin until it closed. He then moved his family first to Guthrie, KY. for a year, then on to Nashville, where he worked for Riverside Mills (12 years) and at H. G. Hill Co. (25 years) as a mill foreman.

Jack and Kate Boone

J.D. Boone's parents were Bird Richard Boon

and Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Lee (pictured above left). Betty's parents were John Washington Lee (1784-1850) and Elizabeth Hawkins (1798-1884-pictured below) of Erin, TN. Betty's brother, James Sanford Lee (1829-1901) is pictured below with and without his military uniform.

James Sanford Lee

uncle of Jack Boone

Elizabeth Hawkins Lee

The Boone family in Erin in 1905. Front row (right to left):

Kate & J.D. Boone (behind them is Robert Boone), and Betty Lee Boone (seated).

At middle right is Stella Boone with baby Oliver, with Marvin Boone behind her.

To the left of Marvin are Sidney & Ada Boone with daughter, Lorraine (with a

flower in her hair). Others are unidentified.

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Etheldred Daniel Boon (1837-1873), son of William Boone, and grandson of Etheldred Boon Sr., who is the earliest confirmed ancestor in our Boone line. Etheldred Sr.'s son, Bird Richard Boon (1817-1856), was Jack Boone's father and the husband of Betty Lee Boone (pictured seated in front in the photo on the left). Etheldred Boon Jr. fought in the Civil War as a private in the 14th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry of the Confederate Army.

The family name appears as "Boon" without an "e" in the records until the late 1800s.

Marriage records from Houston Co., Tennessee show that Marvin Boone and Stella Cathey were married by R. H. Craig on Oct. 21, 1903.

Marvin Boone (left)

with a musical partner

Stella Cathey Boone

with her son Oliver

Marvin Boone (far right) in Erin , TN

Levi Cathey (1860-1936-3rd from left), Stella Boone's father, around 1930, with co-workers

The parents of Stella Boone's father, Levi Cathey, were Wiley Cathey (1829-1863) and Nancy "Nannie" Myers (1838-1906). Wiley joined the Confederate Army in Tennessee in 1861, not long after Levi's birth. He was captured at Ft. Donelson on Feb.16, 1862, and later released but died of dysentery in Chattanooga, TN on Jan. 21,1863. His widow remarried James T. Buckingham.

Marvin and Stella Boone in Nashville ca. 1960

J.M Boone and his brother, Sidney Boone

J.M Boone ca. 1947

1944 wartime wedding in Nashville, TN of Marvin and Stella's youngest daughter, Sue Boone, to MSgt. Troy R. Blann of New York.

Behind them stand Rev. H.H. Wise, who officiated along with Rev. Claude Galloway, the bride's brother-in-law. Hazel Moore was the flower girl, assisted by young Bill Galloway and Jim Hall. Marvin Boone and Doris Hall (Johnson) stand to the right of the bride.

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Boone Grandchildren (Left to right ca. 1944): Hazel Moore, Jim Hall, Bill Galloway, Bobby Moore, and Bobby Boone

ca. 1955 (visiting Yuma Territorial Prison): Marvin A."Boonie" Boone Jr., Rob Blann, Jack Galloway, Gregory Blann

The Boones lived at a number of locations in East Nashville, but from 1949 to 1960, they lived at 901 Strouse Ave in Nashville, until they sold the house and

its 2 acre lot to a group who built a church on the land next to the house.

Stella, daughter Sue Blann and Marvin standing behind the house

Marvin with grandson, Gregory, and

Marvin's large "Elephant Ear" plants

Relaxing in the back yard on Strouse Avenue

J.M Boone died in Nashville, TN on Dec.31, 1961.

His obituary from the Nashville Banner is below.

Stella lived on until June 26,1972. Her death notice is below.

Stella Cathey Boone

(1886-1972)

ENTERTAINERS IN THE BOONE FAMILY

Three Boone family members have been involved in the entertainment and music industry; they are featured below:

Marvin Aaron Boone (1913-1987), second son of Marvin and Stella Boone

was a Master of Ceremonies, comedian and dancer from the 1940s to the 1960s. He often worked as a team with his second wife, Dolly Frye.

Jim Hall (1939-2021), the only son of Doris Boone and Russell Hall, a back-up singer during late 1950s, for "The Crescendos," a rock and roll group that recorded the hit song "O Julie," which reached #4 on the U.S. R&B chart and #5 on the U.S. pop chart in 1959.

Jack Galloway (b.1944), second son of Edith Boone and Rev. Claude Galloway, during the 1960s was one of the Southern Gentlemen who sang backup for county music star, Sonny James, often appearing on the Ed Sullivan show and other national television venues.