Birth Name: Richard Allen Boone
Date of Birth: June 18, 1917
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Death: January 10, 1981
Place of Death: St. Augustine, Florida
Ethnicity:
*English, some Welsh (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Richard Boone was an American actor.
Richard’s four times great-grandfather was George Boone, whose siblings were frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Squire Boone. Richard is a sixth cousin of singer and actor Pat Boone (Richard’s five times great-grandparents, Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, were also Pat Boone’s five time great-grandparents).
Richard’s paternal grandparents were Bower Boone (the son of Peter Tribble Boone and Laura Bower) and Lola Ann Matthews (the daughter of Mack Matthews and Elizabeth Evaline Kelsay).
Richard’s maternal grandparents were Harris Beckerman (the son of Jacob Z. Beckerman) and Rosa Schakowitz (the daughter of William Schakowitz). Harris and Rosa were Russian Jewish immigrants.
Sources: Genealogy of Richard Boone – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Richard Boone (focusing on his father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com