Sabine County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Gandy, Daniel Ross March 22, 1811 - May 12, 1867
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Author: Herbert R. Sibley

THE DAINIEL ROSS GANDY FAMILY


Daniel Ross Gandy, son of John and Cloey (Mullins) Gandy, was born in Georgia 
in 1811.  The Gandys moved to Perry County Alabama and there Daniel married 
Nancy Evans (born in Mississippi) in 1811.
     Daniel and Nancy came across country in a wagon train with her family, 
going to Texas where land was free.  It took them many months to make the 
trip.  They had to stop to make a garden, to rest a team, or to tend a sick 
person.  There were no roads or bridges.  The Mississippi River was so big, 
the crossing so formidable, that when they lost a dog there, everyone cried.  
Finally reaching Texas, they were plagued with a severe drouth and encounters 
with hostile Indians.  They couldn?t rid themselves of visions of the lush 
green forests east of the Sabine River.  They returned to Sabine Parish in 
1833.
     Daniel and Nancy settled on land just south of Many and lived there the 
rest of their lives.  He was elected sheriff of Sabine Parish twice, and to 
the State Legislature in 1853.  While he was in Baton Rouge, Nancy died.
     Of their seven children, only Mary Elisa (married Vincent A. 
Montogomery), Daniel Ross (married Nancy A. Self), and Marion Franklin 
survived their mother.
     In December 1853, Daniel married (2) Louisa Jane Sibley, daughter of John 
Isaac and Jane (Felder) Sibley, Louisa Jane died in 1862 and was buried on the 
Gandy home-place.
They had five children, three of whom reached maturity:  Frances Eugenia 
(married George S. Plant); Nancy Jane (married James W. Brumfield); and Rufus 
Sibley (married Ida Rilla McLanahan).
     Daniel Ross Married (3) Angeline Jane Duggan, daughter of Rev. Edmund and 
Elizabeth (Swint) Duggan.  They had three children:  Mary Louise; Willie 
Elliot (married Louisa Jane Cook); and Anna Elizabeth (married Francis J. 
Davis).
     In 1867 Daniel Ross Gandy died.  He was buried beside Louisa Jane on the 
homeplace.  In later years, the KCS railroad cut through close to this little 
cemetery.  Cedar trees grew up around the graves and eventually some landowner 
cleared the trees, threw the gravestone against the fence, and plowed the land.
     Bertha (Gandy) Miller (daughter of Rufus Sibley Gandy and Granddaughter 
of Daniel Ross Gandy) when searching for the gravesites, rescued the old 
stone.  She mounted it in the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetary, beside the 
grave of her father.
     Daniel Perry Gandy, and Harvey M. Gandy, sons of a deceased brother of 
Daniel Ross Gandy, came to Sabine Parish in the early 1850?s from Alabama.  
Their parents were Harvey M. and Caroline (Martin) Gandy of Bibb County 
Alabama.

Herbert R. Sibley
Willa Dean Duggan Reynolds
Lona Mae Duggan Gordon

Sabine Parish Library 
Many LA
(file 90)




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