Daniel West Dawson, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Daniel West Dawson, a farmer of Jefferson Township, Chambersville post-office. The above named gentleman was born in
Tennessee, November 27, 1832, son of Jonathan Dawson, a farmer, who was born and raised in Tennessee. He died in
Mississippi, when the subject of this sketch was but a small boy. His wife, Elizabeth (West) Dawson, was born and raised in
Alabama. When our subject was still quite small, his mother moved the family from Mississippi to Arkansas County, Arkansas,
resided there a few years and then went to Hot Springs County, Arkansas, where she died in 1862. She was the mother of six
children - five boys and one girl - but three of whom - two sons and the daughter - are now living. Our subject was the fourth
child. He was mostly raised in Arkansas, in which State he was also educated, receiving only a small amount of schooling, as he
was the oldest boy living at that time, and had to work to help his mother support the family. He resided with his mother, until
he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself. In March, 1853, he married Miss M. C. Callaway, daughter of
Martin and Eliza Callaway, born in Georgia, August 1, 1837. The result of this union was four children, all girls, all of whom are
now living, viz: Martha A. (wife of T. J. McManus), Serena (wife of Joseph Jones), Susan C. (wife of William Cook), and
Fanny (wife of W. R. Turner). In April 1862, our subject enlisted in the Confederate army, in McNally's Company, and served
until the close of the war when he returned to his farm. Politically, our subject is and always ahs been a Democrat, casting his
first vote for Buchanan. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He resides about eleven
miles north of the county seat, and has been a resident of this county, since 1852. He has 360 acres of land about eighty of
which are under cultivation. He is a good, honest citizen, taking an active interest in schools and all public enterprises.