Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Daniel, Thomas F. 1847 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
THOMAS F. DANIEL, a prominent farmer of Beat No. 2, Crenshaw county, was born in
this county, in 1847. He is a son of William J. and Emillia (Harrison) Daniel,
both natives of Georgia, but who were taken to Alabama by their parents, Mr.
Daniel, when he was about five years old. He received no education in his youth,
being unable to write his name until he had attained his maturity. Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel were married in Butler county, and at once settled in what is now
Crenshaw county, where Mr. Daniel improved a farm and upon it spent the rest of
his life, dying in 1887, aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Daniel is still living
on the old farm. Mr. Daniel followed farming all his life with considerable
success. He served a short time in the late war with the state troops. He was a
member of the Primitive Baptist church. His father, Francis Daniel, was one of
the pioneers of Montgomery county, to which he came about 1820. After living
there a few years, not being satisfied with the country, he moved to what is now
Crenshaw county, settling several miles from any habitation, in what was almost
a wilderness, and there spending the rest of his life, dying when the subject of
this sketch was a boy. While he lived here the Indians were the principal
inhabitants, and with them he became quite familiar. Grandfather James Harrison
was of a roving disposition; and lived in different states. He and his wife,
Delany Harrison, lie buried in Butler county. They had four sons and ten
daughters. The mother of Thomas F. is about seventy-six years old, and is the
mother of ten children, viz.: Mary E., wife of W. J. Mothershed; John W., died
in infancy; Elisha J., Jr., who was in the late war; Sarah A. R., widow of
William Johnson; Martha D., wife of Robert A. I. Stringer; Moses F., killed at
battle of Drewry's Bluff; Susan F., wife of Anderson T. Stringer; Thomas F.;
Ophelia J., wife of Joseph McCullough; Resana T., wife of William S. Sexton.
Thomas F. Daniel was reared on a farm, and began farming for himself at
twenty-one years of age. In 1882 he married Georgia E. L., daughter of John A.
and Nancy Stringer, now of Butler county, where Mrs. Daniel was born. She is the
mother of six children. Since his marriage Mr. Daniel has lived on his present
farm of 600 acres. He owns 940 acres in all, and has about 130 acres cleared. He
has always been a very industrious man, and what property he has he has
accumulated by his own efforts. For some years he was engaged in the milling
business, but has retired from that and will soon remove to Sandy Ridge, in
Lowndes county. He is now one of the leading farmers in Crenshaw county, and is
president of Pan Grove alliance, No. 1924. Mrs. Daniel is a member of the
Missionary Baptist church, and both stand high in society.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 774-775
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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