The Daniel family the rest of the story

Well, I got my computer back but there are still problems. I'm limping along here until a service tech can come to my house and replace another part. I refuse to lift this thing again and lug it out to the car.

In the meantime, I will keep zapping my P-ram to keep this thing going (an Apple technician in Canada told me about that trick).

That issue aside, I'd like to finish the story on the family of Olivia Daniel who married Wyatt Wood, son of Judge Thomas Wood and Nancy Blake, grandson of Winston Wood and Dicey Gay, and great-grandson of Richard Wood and Tabitha Glass of Greene, Fayette, Coweta and Heard counties. Some of this is from census and cemetery information (which is proof), some from Internet sources (which is not), some from my Blake book (which may or may not be correct ... cousin Kate Blake Daus made a few boo-boos, but for the most part the book is pretty accurate), and some from David Blake Rogers, a descendant of this family.

I believe I had gotten down to John Daniel (son of Littleton Daniel and Elizabeth Hinds Daniel), Olivia's grandfather, who married Dovey Plaster. According to census records, John and Dovey were both born in North Carolina.

I found John and Dovey in the 1850 Heard County census (household #266), with Olivia's father, Isham Daniel, still there. He was only 15 years old. Olivia's mother, Barbara Miller, was also living in Heard Co. with her parents, John and Talitha Miller. Barbara was only 8 years old. Talitha Miller's maiden name is unknown at this point.

The children of John and Dovey Plaster Daniel were: Benjamin, b. abt 1830; Elizabeth (1831-1926), buried Daniel/Lane Cemetery, Heard Co.; Sarah, b. abt 1833; Isham J. Daniel (1835-1909), buried Miller Cemetery, Heard Co.; Edwin, b. abt 1836; Delila, b. abt 1839; John, b. abt 1840; Andrew J., b. abt 1844; and Piety A. Daniel (1846-1903), buried Daniel/Lane Cemetery, Heard Co., m. John Henry Lane.

By 1860, Isham J. Daniel, son of John and Dovey Plaster Daniel, was living alone in Heard County. He married Barbara Miller sometime between 1860 and 1863, when their first child, Bennie, was born. (There are no marriage records for Heard County because of a courthouse fire.)

The children of Isham and Barbara Miller Daniel were Bennie, b. 1863; Olivia Lee (1864-1938), m. William Wyatt Wood on 8 Feb. 1882, both buried in Roanoke, Ala.; Frank (1866-1941), buried Miller Cemetery, Heard Co., Rufus, b. abt 1869, m. Lettie Ann Zachary (Rufus was living in Oklahoma by 1938); Cora, b. abt 1871; James (abt 1872-1932), buried Miller Cemetery, Heard Co.; George, b. abt 1874; John (1876-1911), buried Miller Cemetery; Jep, b. abt 1878; and Humphrey D. Daniel (1880-1939), m. Emmie Lou Unknown, both buried Miller Cemetery.

Olivia Lee Daniel, daughter of Isham and Barbara Miller Daniel, m. William Wyatt Wood, son of Judge William Thomas Wood and Nancy Blake, and had the following children: Annie Wood, b. 1884, d. aft 1938, m. W.T.A. Huey; Tommie Wood (female), b. 1 May 1885, d. 21 April 1921; Willie Wood (female), b. 30 Aug. 1886, d. 12 July 1970, m. Harry Dunlap Cowden; Winston Theo Wood, b. 12 Aug. 1888, d. 10 Dec. 1963; Jessie Cora Wood, b. 14 April 1891, d. 16 Dec. 1948 in Baltimore, Md., m. Charles Goodwyn Rogers; Wyatt Blake Wood, b. 8 March 1892, d. 30 Nov. 1963, m. Annie Jim Patrick; and Robert Howell Wood, b. 2 May 1896, d. 2 April 1928.

I only have two children of Charles Goodwyn Rogers and Jessie Cora Wood Rogers: Olivia Lee Rogers and Charles Goodwyn Rogers, Jr., the latter I met on the recent trip to the Wood Cemetery in Franklin. (What a pleasure!) He married a lovely lady, Nancy Townley, who I also met, along with their son, David Blake Rogers. It was certainly a cousin-meeting day.

I would like to say a little about an observation I have made over the past few years. To get you started putting families together, there are three resources that will allow you to take off like gangbusters: census records, cemetery records, and marriage records. If you had many ancestors in a certain county, and they stayed there for any length of time, it would behoove you to purchase these resources for that county if they are available. Putting this Daniel family together took a little time, but the resources helped me confirm relationships, birth dates, death dates, and children's names and birth dates. I also had a lot of help from David, who provided me with Olivia's obituary and names of family members he knew.

As most of you know, I also had many ancestors in Carroll County. By gathering censuses for 1850 through 1880, marriage records and cemetery records, it was amazing the progress I made putting the families together. Ditto for Cleburne and Coweta. Plus, I'm building my genealogy resource library. Now I'm getting ready to start on Gwinnett. I joined the historical society yesterday and am ordering resources today. County Web sites often give a link to the historical or genealogical societies in the area and they, in turn, list the publications they have available. Gwinnett is loaded. I'm using the excuse that these are Christmas gifts to myself. Well ... I have to justify it somehow!

Of course, to fill in gaps and add "color," it helps to have church records, newspaper accounts, Bible records, and family stories to make it really interesting. This takes a little more leg work and on-site research, but it's all worth it.

If you are related or connected to the above Wood/Daniel family, I know David would love to hear from you (so would I). David's e-mail is ScttRogrs@aol.com.

Made any recent breakthroughs with your ancestors? Did they live in the Atlanta area? I'd love to hear about them. Send stories to The Citizen, Drawer 1719, Fayetteville, GA 30214; E-mail jkilgore@thecitizennews.com or jodiek444@aol.com.

Until next week, happy hunting!

(Judy regrets that time does not permit her to do personal research for others. She will willingly share research information on her own family lines, including collateral and allied lines.)

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