Biography of C. C. McDaniel - Conway Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Cathy Barnes Date: 21 Jun 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1891. page 90 C. C. McDaniel. One of the pioneer farmers of Conway County is C. C. McDaniel, who is one of the few who settled in the county at that early date (1849). He was born in LaRue County, Kentucky, in the year 1846. His father, William McDaniel, was also a native of LaRue County, Kentucky, and was born September 28, 1822, and his mother, Jane Kincaid, was born in the same county in the year 1819. There they lived till 1849, when they emigrated through a wild and sparsely settled country to Conway County, Arkansas, and located on a small improvement about three miles north of the present site of Morrilton, where they improved a good farm, and shared the privations and hardships common to a new settlement. Mr. McDaniel was a man of no education whatever, but by industry, economy and judicious management, he became one of the substantial farmers of Conway County. He was twice married. First, February 28, 1843, to the mother of our subject, and after her death, which occurred in August, 1882, Mr. McDaniel married again, and his last wife still survives. Mr. McDaniel died at the home of his son, C. C., in Morrilton, January 21, 1885. His father was John McDaniel, who was a farmer by occupation and died in Kentucky The maternal grandfather, James Kincaid, emigrated from Kentucky to Conway. County in 1849, also, and died in that county before the civil war. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of a family of four sons and four daughters, viz.: C. C. (our subject), Margaret, who was born January 8, 1847, and is now the wife of P. S. Wilson, of Washington County, Arkansas; Nancy, born October 8, 1851, and died March, 1887; Doc., born April 17, 1854, and departed this life September 11, 1862; Permelia, who was born November 3, 1856, now Mrs. John Cook; John P., born January 3, 1861, and whose death occurred April 29, 1861; Samuel, born August 29, 1862, and died April, 1864. C. C. McDaniel was reared to manhood on a farm with nothing but the advantages of the country schools for an education, and that much interfered with by the ravages of the war. March 19, 1871, he united in marriage with Miss Paralee Baker, who was a native of Conway County, and a daughter of Moses and Rebecca Baker, who emigrated in an early day from Tennessee to Conway County, where they both died. Mrs. McDaniel died in 1874, and was the mother of four children, all deceased. Mr. McDaniel's second marriage occurred in 1876 to Rachel C. Brenley, a cousin of his first wife. She was also born in Conway County. Her father, Henry Brenley, died when she was but a few months old, and her mother. Artie Brenley, died when she was about seven years of age, and she was reared by her uncle, Moses Baker. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel are the parents of six sons and one daughter. With the exception of about two years engaged in the saloon business north of Morrilton, Mr. McDaniel has made farming his occupation all his life, and is now the owner of a fine farm of 208 acres, and several lots and a third interest in one of the principal business blocks in Morrilton. He inherited a portion of his property, but the larger part of it he has accumulated by his own industry and good financiering. He holds membership in the Lewisburg Lodge of A. F. and A. M., No. 105. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, casting his first presidential vote for Gen. Grant in 1868.