An unimaginable loss at the hands of a vandal who will never understand the significance of what he destroyed.
A priceless treasure is gone, but not the legacy of Boone.
On June 24, 2008 it was reported to Warren County Sheriffs Office that the Daniel Boone Monument plaque was missing. A 27 year old man, Matthew M. Burgoyne, from Wright City, Missouri, was charged in Warren County Circuit Court with felony stealing and institutional vandalism.

The bronze plaque which was dedicated in 1913, by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a hundred years after the death of Rebecca Boone. Unfortunately it will never hit its own century mark, as the monument plaque is now reduced to scrap pieces and has been irreversibly damaged. According to reports, the sizable plaque was cut and hammered into unrecognizable scrap pieces which were sold at local scrap yards for less than one hundred dollars.

The DAR has agreed to replace the plaque, not with a bronze as before, but with an etched black marble plaque mounted to the existing boulder. It was suggested by a member of the community interested in preserving history, that there were two members of the American Revolution, David Bryan and Flanders Callaway, whose graves remained unmarked in the Bryan cemetery. The DAR generously agreed to provide markers for either one or both of those graves as well.