Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Thomas L. Daniel

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Thomas L. Daniel, member of the grocery firm of Reed & Daniel, was 
born in Mercer County, Ky., in 1850, and is a son of John S. and Mary 
E. (Coleman) Daniel. The father was born in Virginia in 1814, and when 
a young man went to Mercer County, Ky., where he married Mary E. 
Coleman. She was born in Kentucky and died in 1860. Soon after her 
death Mr. Daniel moved to Madison County, Ala., and there married Miss 
Kate M. Bronaugh, who was born in Alabama in 1840. About 1862 Mr. 
Daniel came to Van Buren, afterward resided a short time in Hempstead 
County, Ark., and for quite a number of years has resided ten miles 
north of the county seat of Crawford County. Thomas L. Daniel passed 
his youth upon a farm, and in 1872 married Miss Sallie C. O'Bryan, 
daughter of Arnold O'Bryan. Mrs. Daniel was born in Crawford County in 
1857, and is the mother of four children: Arnold, Ella and Emma, 
twins, and John. Mr. T. L. Daniel farmed until 1885, and then engaged 
in street sprinkling in Van Buren two years. January 10, 1887, he went 
into partnership with James F. Reed and his brother, William R., in 
the grocery business