Our family legend says that he was wounded (shot) while rescuing Daniel Boone from the Native american's and died of the bullet wound while working in the fields. I believe there is a factual story verifying this, I will research.
Thanks. I'm his 7th Great-Grand Daughter so I would love to know the facts. Copied from source citations on my Ancestry.com "Age: 38 from a wound that happened 3 weeks earlier defending the fort".