Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Gunnels, Daniel P. 1823 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    DANIEL P. GUNNELS was born in Franklin, Ga., near Hold Spring, October 6,
1823, and his parents were Nathan and Nancy (Hunt) Gunnels, natives of Wilkes
and Franklin Counties, Ga., respectively.

    The senior Mr. G. moved to Franklin County at an early day, and there
subsequently made his home. He was a planter by occupation, and died in 1870 at
Atlanta, at the age of seventy years. He was an officer in the War of 1836, and
was a member of the Georgia Constitutional Convention. He was quite a politician
in his day, of the Clay and Webster faith, and a man of no little influence in
the vicinity where he lived. His children were—Daniel P., Sarah F. (Mrs. J. M.
Alexander), Joel D., Nathan C., Mary E. (Mrs. Shephard), Elmira (deceased), and
John H.

    The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, receiving an academic
education, and in 1845 located at Boiling Springs, in Calhoun County, Ala.,
where he was several years clerk in a mercantile establishment. He subsequently
purchased an interest with his employer, and later on became sole owner of the
concern. He came to Oxford in 1854, where he continued in the mercantile
business until 1872. It is proper to explain, however, that from 1862 to the
close of the war he found it expedient to suspend the mercantile business and
was, during that period, in the employ of the Oxford Iron Co. Though the war
swept away his fortune in common with the fortunes of other men, he has since
succeeded in amply replenishing his exchequer. Since 1872 he has given most of
his time to planting.

    March, 1857, Mr. Gunnels was married to Miss Susan E. Cunningham, daughter
of William N. and Nancy E. (Pratt) Cunningham, natives of South Carolina, and
his children are: Nancy E. (Mrs. Warnock), John N. and James N. (twins), Esther
L., Elmira P., Henry C. and Willie Francis.

    The family are all identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
and Mr. Gunnels is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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