Death
After a brief illness, Rebecca Boone died at the age of 74 on March 18, 1813, at her daughter Jemima Boone Callaway's home near the village of Charette (near present day Marthasville, Missouri). She was buried at the Bryan family cemetery nearby overlooking the Missouri River. Her and her husband's remains were reinterred and buried again in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1845.
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