Biography of Abraham McDaniel - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 343

Abraham McDaniel (deceased) was one of the prosperous and
esteemed farmers of Craighead County. He was a native of Tennessee, his
parents, John and Mary McDaniel, having been residents of that State.
After his mother's death, his father came to Poinsett (now Craighead)
County, Ark., locating near the present home of his son's widow, but he
afterward removed to Missouri, where he died. His children. Abraham,
Mary, Nicholas and Charlie, returned to Arkansas. There were six
children, only two of whom, Solomon N., and Mary, widow of William
Pauldin, are now living. Abraham was about grown when he came to this
county, and has engaged in farming all his life. He settled on the
homestead farm in September, 1852, entering a half section of land.
Having given to his sons, John B. and James N., sixty and sixty-three
acres of land, respectively, the homestead now contains 183 acres. He was
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in 1865 was ordained to preach in
the Christian denomination, and devoted the greater part of his life to
his Master's cause. He died March 7, 1879, [p.343] aged fifty-three
years. He was married October 20, 1847, to Jane Cary, a daughter of
Benjamin and Sallie (Stotts) Cary, residents of this county. Mrs.
McDaniel was born in Carroll County, Tenn., October 31, 1832. In 1839 Mr.
Cary removed with his family to Poinsett County. Ark., where he died in
1843, his wife having died two years previously. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel
were the parents of ten children, three deceased: Rebecca, Sally and an
infant boy; and seven living: John B., married to Mintie McGown, James
N., married to Mary Hendrix: Mary, wife of John H. Darr; Nancy Ann, wife
of Louis Sowells: Elizabeth, wife of William Fuller, and Martha Jane and
A. B., at home. Mrs. McDaniel has been a devout and influential member of
the Christian Church for about nineteen years, and four of her children
are also members.