Allen McDaniel

Notes for ALLEN MCDANIEL:

     After the death of his father John McDaniel, Allen, with his mother, sisters, and brothers, moved to Pike Co., GA and settled in the 7th District near Zebulon. 

     About 1842 reports reached Georgia of a wonderful and unsettled country west of the Mississippi River called Texas. Texas had won her independence from Mexico. Allen and Sophia took their family and joined the next caravan going west in 1843.They sold their property, some livestock and other things that could not be taken on journey. They carried with them feather beds, pillows, quilts, clothes for the family, buckskin coats, tubs filled with dishes and cooking utensils, coffee mill, spinning wheels and looms. They also took their best milk cow. 

     After many weeks of traveling with the caravan, they came to Kosciusko, MS. Many of the wagon train decided to stay a year in Kosciusko before travelling on to Texas. Allen and Sophia found several more McDaniels in the area. There were twelve or more land owners and voters listed in the tax rolls, some as early as 1841.Allen and Sophia decided to stay here for a time. Allen McDaniel was listed in the Atalla Co. tax roll of 1846, but not in 1848. His wife Sophia McDaniel was listed as head of household in the 1850 census of Atalla Co., Kosciousko, MS. 

     Some of the family say Allen McDaniel died while on a trip to Arkansas, but was buried in McDaniel Cemetery in Kosciusko, MS. 

1825 GA Tax Digest:
Allen McDaniel-1 poll-101 1/2 acres 2nd class land
101 1/2 acres 3rd class land on the Tobusopkie Creek adj Jinks.
490 acres in Irwin Co Lot #298, 4th District

Notes for SOPHIA WILLIAMS:

     Several years after her husband's death and at her sons' urgings, Sophia and some of her family joined another wagon train. After a long journey, she purchases 200 acres south of Eutaw, Limestone Co., Texas.

Children of ALLEN MCDANIEL and SOPHIA WILLIAMS are:
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i. JOHN W6 MCDANIEL, b. December 27, 1825, Pike Co, GA; d. October 22, 1896, Eutaw, Limestone Co, TX.
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ii. JOSEPH W MCDANIEL, b. August 13, 1827, Pike Co, GA; d. 1912, TX.
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iii. AUGUSTUS H MCDANIEL, b. April 13, 1829, Pike Co, GA; d. April 26, 1864, Limestone Co, TX.

           iv.                    JAMES L MCDANIEL, b. September 02, 1830; d. Bef. 1832.

           Notes for JAMES L MCDANIEL:

He died before reaching manhood and it is believed he died in infancy. The next child was given his name as was often done during that period.

           v.                    JAMES L MCDANIEL, b. March 22, 1832, Pike Co, GA.

           Notes for JAMES L MCDANIEL:

Sometimes he used James C McDaniel. He was a teenage boy when he came with his parents to Atalla Co., Kosciousko, MS. He is listed with his siblings in the Atalla Co. 1850 census. It is not known whether he migrated from MS to Limestone Co., TX with his mother and family. There is a James McDaniel listed as a soldier in the Confederacy on record in the State Archives in Austin, TX, but information is lacking.
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vi. EMILY MCDANIEL, b. January 29, 1834, Pike Co, GA; d. Eutaw, Limestone Co, TX.
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vii. ALLEN WILSON MCDANIEL, b. August 02, 1835, Pike Co, GA; d. June 03, 1915, Eutaw, Limestone Co, TX.
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viii. AMANDA CAROLINE MCDANIEL, b. July 29, 1839, Pike Co., GA; d. October 1898.

           ix.                    CHARLES MCDANIEL, b. January 19, 1840, Pike Co., GA; d. Aft. 1892, Limestone Co., TX.

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x. MARTHA P MCDANIEL, b. June 03, 1843, Pike Co., GA; d. June 25, 1873, Eutaw, Limestone Co., TX.
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xi. JULIUS ALFORD MCDANIEL, b. May 13, 1846, Kosciusko, Atalla Co., MS; d. August 18, 1921, Ben Hur, TX.

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