Biography of R T Daniel, Greene Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 133

R. T. Daniel, a merchant and farmer of Clark Township, Greene County, was born in
1837 in Tennessee, and is the fifth of a family of nine children born to Ephraim and
Pennie (Mundson) Daniel, who were Tennesseeans. The father was a sturdy son of the
soil, and when our subject was a child removed to Mississippi, where he was engaged
in farming until 1855. At that date he came to Greene County, Ark., and settled on
the farm on which R. T. Daniel is now residing, which consisted of 200 acres. He
improved this farm very much and soon had quite an extensive tract under cultivation
and furnished with good buildings. R. T. Daniel remained with his parents until
twenty-five years of age, then marrying Miss Elizabeth Pilmore, who was born in
Mississippi and came with her parents to Arkansas at an early day. Soon after he
erected a cottage on his father's farm. and began tilling the soil for himself on
forty acres of land purchased from his father. Later he bought eighty acres more. and
at his father's death, in 1870, inherited the remainder. When the war broke out he
enlisted in Capt. Anderson's company, and was with Gen. Shelby on his raid through
Missouri, and was in the battle of Cape Girardeau, where he was wounded. He was also
at Helena, Devall's Bluff. Little Rock. Camden and Saline River. While with Price on
his raid through Missouri he was in the engagements at Iron Mountain, Independence,
Blue Lick, Boonville and Kansas City. He then retreated to Texas and surrendered at
Pine Bluff. After his return home he resumed farming successfully, continuing until
1887, when he received a stroke of paralysis, and has not been able to do hard labor
since. He is now conducting a general mercantile store on his farm, which is netting
him a fair income. Sixty acres of his place are under cultivation, and he devotes it
to raising corn, cotton, etc. He and wife are the parents of the following children:
James, who is married to Miss Nancy Fielder; Eliza Jane, wife of Jeff Adams; Henry,
Thomas, Pollie, and Sarah Elizabeth. The family worship in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. Mr. Daniel has served as school director and has always taken a deep
interest in educational matters, as well as all other worthy enterprises.