HABERSHAM WHITE COUNTY, GA - BIOS McCollum, Daneil ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Wally McCollum Daniel McCollum was born in 1760 in East Jersey and had re- located to Rowan County, North Carolina by the time of the Revolution. Between 1776 and 1783 he served several enlistments in a militia company commanded by Captain David Caldwell in the regiment commanded by Colonel Francis Locke. His company was active in Rowan and Randolph counties in North Carolina and as far south as Camden in South Carolina. Shortly after the Revolution he and his family re-located to the Pendleton District of South Carolina, where he, his wife and their first son William were shown in the first census of the United States in 1790. According to his pension claim, he and his family moved to Habersham County, Georgia in February, 1826. Daniel filed for a Revolutionary War pension in 1832, which was finally approved in 1840. By that time his wife had died and he was living with his daughter and son-in-law, where he remained until his death at the age of 90 in 1850. Some of Daniel's descendants remained in Habersham County and the part of the county that became White County in 1857. His son William's first wife is buried at Blue Creek, as are Daniel's daughter Elizabeth and her husband; his grandson, Daniel and his wife; his great grandson George Washington and his wife; and a number of George Washington McCollum's children. Other descendants moved on to Cherokee County when the Indian Territory opened up to white settlement in the 1830s. Most, if not all, of the McCollum families in Cherokee County are descended from Daniel. By the 1850s Daniel's descendants were in almost every county of north Georgia and at least a dozen of them served in Georgia units during the Civil War. Most were farmers and blacksmiths, but in the late 19th century Daniel's great grandson, William E. McCollum (1867- 1921) was a prominent Baptist minister in the Noonday Baptist Association in Cherokee, Cobb and Bartow counties. His son, William Hayden McCollum (1900-1974), was also a Baptist minister. On July 4th 2003 at 10:00 AM there will be a short ceremony to dedicate a marker for the previously unmarked grave of Daniel McCollum in the Old Blue Creek Baptist Church cemetery in White County, Georgia near Cleveland. Daniel's descendants and their families are invited to attend. If you can't make it to the ceremony, please try to visit the grave site sometime. William W. McCollum Columbia, Maryland