Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....M'DANIEL, G. A. 1820 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
G A. M'DANIEL, farmer and miller, Victory, Carroll Co., Ga., son of John and 
Sarah 1. (Terry) McDaniel, was born in Elbert county, Ga., in 1820. His 
grandparents, Henry and Mary (Rucker) McDaniel, were natives of Virginia 
whence they migrated to South Carolina. They afterward came to Georgia, but in 
it few years returned to South Carolina, where. they died. Mr. McDaniel's 
father was born in Virginia in 1781, came to Georgia in 1810, and settled in, 
Elbert county, where he remained until 1822, when he moved to Henry (now De 
Kalb) county. The only property he had 'was a horse, that ran away, and he had 
to make his crop with a grubbing hoe. He walked to South Carolina to get 
another horse. He lived in a tent until he could build a log cabin (dirt 
floor), had to go twenty miles to mill, and lived principally on corn pone and 
wild game. His mother was the daughter of Henry and Mary (Baldwin) Terry, 
native South Carolinians. Her father was a Methodist Episcopal minister and 
devoted his life to church work. Mr. McDaniel was reared in De Kalb county, 
and educated at schools taught in the old-time dirt-floor log house. About 
1847 he went to Atlanta, but staid there but a short time. He then went to 
Spalding county, where he remained until 1854, when he removed to Bowdon, 
where he farmed until the war began, then he- engaged_ in- merchandising, and 
continued it for - _
twenty years. He then moved to the farm where he now lives, on which he had 
years before built a mill. Beginning without anything, he now owns 2,000 acres 
of excellent land, including one of the best improved farms in the county and 
a mill site, and is one of the richest men in Carroll. Mr. McDaniel was 
married Dec. 25, 1850, in Spalding county, to Miss Martha J. Lavender-born in 
Henry county-daughter of James and Malinda (Ansley) Lavender, native 
Georgians. This union has been blessed with ten children: Sarah A, Mary M. 
deceased; Eliza A, Ella J., John L., Martha J, Ida B., T. Henry, Lula B. and 
Emma B. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel are members of the Methodist Protestant church 
and he is regarded as one of Carroll's very best and worthiest citizens.


Additional Comments:
From the book, "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896

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