Daniel McCranie

DANIEL MCCRANIE was a native of North Carolina where he was born in 1772; he

was married about 1793 in North Carolina to Sarah McMillan, daughter of

Malcolm McMillan of Robeson County, N. C. She died about 1840. To Daniel and

Sarah were born:

1. Neff E. b. 1794, m. Rebecca Monroe. Moved to Fla.

2. Mary b. 1795, m. John Lindsey, son of Thos.

3. John b. 1797, m. Christiana Morrison, dau. of John.

4. Daniel b. 1800, m. Winnie Lindsey, dau. of Thos.

5. Malcolm b. 1802, m. Elizabeth Parrish, dau. of Henry

6. Duncan b. 1805, m. (unknown). Lived in Liberty Co.

7. Nancy b. 1808, m. Robert N. Parrish.

8. Archibald b. 1810, m, Nancy McMillan. (cousin).

9. William b. 1812, m. Melvina Beasley, dau. of Elijah.

10. Elizabeth b. 1815, m. Sampson G. William

These ten children became the ancestors of a very large family connection of

Wiregrass Georgia, all of them except Neil and Duncan living and rearing

their families in present Berrien and Cook counties.

The parents of Daniel McCranie moved from Robeson County, North Carolina, to

Bulloch County, Ga., about 1800, and Daniel had moved to Montgomery County

when his son, Malcolm was born in 1802. He was a Justice of the Inferior

Court of Montgomery County and was commissioned Jan. 17, 1822. About 1824

Daniel McCranie and family moved to the lower part of Irwin County and in

1825 were cut off into the new County of Lowndes.

Mr. McCranie settled on the Coffee Road which had only been cut through a

year or two. The place where he settled was Lot of Land No 416, 9th district

of Lowndes County and became known in more recent years as the old Dick

Hutchinson place in present Cook County. The territorial changes of this

property have been as follows: Cut into Lowndes, 1825; into Berrien in 1856

and into Cook, 1918.

The first postoffice in original Lowndes County was established March 27,

1827, at the home of Mr. McCranie on the Coffee Road, and was called

"Lowndes." Mr. McCranie was the first postmaster. The next year the

postoffice, was moved down Little River to a new place called Franklinville,

which had been made the county-seat of Lowndes County. When the removal took

place William Smith became the new postmaster.

Mr. McCranie served in Capt. Hamilton W. Sharpe's volunteer troops of

Lowndes County militia in the Indian War in 1836.

After the death of his first wife Mr. McCranie married Mrs. Kittie Paige in

1844. She was born Jan. 2, 1802, in Duplin County, N. C., her maiden name

being Holmes. She moved with her parents to Washington County, Ga., in 1812

and in 1818 she married Silas Godwin and by him had one son, S. B. Godwin,

who became a resident of Berrien County. After a divorce from Silas Godwin

she married James Paige of Jefferson County, Ga., and lived with him twenty

years and by him had two children, one of whom, Allen Paige, became a

resident of Lowndes County. Mr. Paige having died, she married Mr. McCranie

in 1844 and they lived together until his death in 1854. There were no

children by this marriage. Mrs. McCranie died in 1889. Mr. McCranie and his

second wife were buried in the Wilkes Cemetery in present Cook County.

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