Wattie Boone

[1] Historians agree that Boone was one of the first to be documented producing Bourbon whiskey in Kentucky in 1776.

[2] According to local folklore the father of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas accepted a job at the Boone Distillery in 1814.

By the time Kentucky established statehood over this area, Boone's neighbor, Aaron Atherton and his son, Peter Atherton (1771–1844) had been operating a small distillery on the banks of Rolling Fork River at Knob Creek for over thirty years, since around 1790 making them also one of the first whiskey pioneers of Kentucky.

[8] He was the son of Charles Boone (1725–1783) and Mary Boarman, and was born in Prince George's County, Maryland.

He died before April 12, 1847, in Pottinger's Creek, also known as Rolling Fork, in Nelson County, Kentucky.