Daniel, William N.

So we have gone from Pearl ...to Woody....to Eron Asberry and now we have---

William N Daniel

William Daniel was born to Josiah and Caroline (Causey) Daniel in 1808 in Tennessee. He married Martha (Patsy) Rogers June 29, 1837 in Shelby, Illinois. He was 29 and she was 21. They had 5 children....Reubin (1837-1869), Mary J (1844-1918), Isaiah (1846), Eron Asberry (1858-1942) and Louisa Ellen (186-1957).

William was only 20 when his mother died and 61 when his wife died (she passed away in the Smallpox Epidemic) in 1869 a year before he and his dad died of the same thing.

The 1840 census they show up in Ripley, Missouri and it only shows free white people that year on a census.

By 1850 they are in Illinois and his father Josiah lives with them.

1860 Census we find them in Missouri. Josiah continues to live with them and their occupation shows Farmer. Their Real Estate wealth is $640.00 and Personal $600.00.

My grandmother, Pearl (Daniel) Stringer sent me a most interesting story when I first started studying our genealogy many, many years ago. “Grandpa Asberry had three brothers, them and his daddy William Daniel died with Smallpox after the Civil War. They were in the Civil War. Grandpa Asberry was 5 years old during the war. He had one sister, Ellen. Him and his mother was at home and the battles were fought in the fields back of his house. The army came and took every sheet and white rag they had to bind up the wounded soldiers they brought them to grandpa father's barn to saw their legs and limbs off where they were wounded. He said it was awful he was small but knew what was going on. The Brush Wackers men that were not fighting in battle would come around and find an old man too old for the army they would put powder in their ears sit it on fire kill them so my great grandfather went to town and joined the home guards to keep from being home. About the Civil War. They took a big team of horses from Grandpa Asberry's mother she didn't know what they would do. But the army men came back later paid her for them they needed them in war they paid her for all they took sheets and all.

Soooo paperwork shows William as a Home Guard in 1863 in Civil War. Keep in mind he is 55.

The 1870 Census they are in Belmont, Kansas. This census shows William is 60....this is they year he died of smallpox. His personal wealth is $900.00 and it also notes he cannot read or write. He is a farmer. I guess in that day and age you could make it ok without reading or writing....hard to imagine. His father and he died the same year with Smallpox...William is in Woodson, Kansas and Josiah is in Missouri.

I have a picture of William standing by a wagon. I always thought he looked like Pearl's son Joe Woody (we called Jay).

As of March 2020 I am linked DNA with 27 others pointing us to William related to me. Blood is an amazing thing!