Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Brislin, Daniel 1813 - February 19 1880
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DANIEL BRISLIN, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1813, and came with his
parents to the United States when he was seventeen years of age. He first made
his home in New York city, and followed the trade of cabinet making until he was
about twenty years old, when he went to Mobile, Ala., where he worked as a
journeyman for a few years, then removed to Marion, Ala., and worked at the same
trade there for a short time. Here he first met Miss Jane E. Montague, whom he
afterward married. Later he removed to McKinley, Ala., where he established a
furniture and undertaker's business on a small capital, the fruits of his
earnings. From McKinley he removed to Selma, in 1866, resuming the business in
which he had previously been engaged. He remained in this business until his
death, which occurred February 19, 1880. He was a man of unusual skill in his
trade, and was highly respected by the entire community, which was plainly
evidenced at his funeral. He was buried by the Odd Fellows, of which he had been
a member since 1854, assisted by the entire fire department of the city. The
immense concourse of citizens present at the funeral exercises testified more
eloquently than words of the estimation in which he was held. He was greatly
missed by the entire community, but more especially by the poor, whose friend he
had always been. He was a man of most charitable and generous heart, and no one
was ever turned away that asked him for assistance for the church, for the poor,
or for any other good cause. As a member of I. O. O. F. he practiced the motto
of that order, Friendship, Love and Truth. He was married December 5, 1844, to
Miss Jane E. Montague, who was born in Cumberland county, Va., December 29,
1821, and died in Selma, Ala., October 21, 1891. She was the daughter of Thomas
Montague, who married Sarah S. Daniel, daughter of Leonard Daniel, a, soldier in
the Revolutionary war. He was born in Cumberland county, Va., and emigrated to
Marion, Ala., and raised a family of three sons and five daughters. He was a son
of Peter Montague, of Cumberland county, Va. Daniel Brislin and his wife had the
following children: Mary, William F., Montague, Judson, Sallie E. and Daniel,
three being deceased. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brislin were members of the Baptist
church. Judson Brislin succeeded to his father's business, and is a very
successful business man.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 846-847
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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