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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ashley County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Frank K. Daniel is a well-known resident of this section, and was born in Arkansas, August 28, 1858, being a son of William and Frances C. (Thompson) Daniel, the former of whom was a Kentuckian, born in 1795, a pioneer of Alabama and Arkansas, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, his death occurring October 21, 1871, in the State of Arkansas, whither he came in 1844, entering and purchasing about 1,000 acres of land which still constitute the home place. Here his widow still resides, and here his family was reared, the names of his deceased children being as follows: James R. (who died June 26, 1844, at the age of six years), William Waller (who was born September 25, 1839, and was missing in the battle of Sharpsburg during the Rebellion; he was a member of Company A, Third Arkansas Regiment, Confederate States Army), John N. (who was born November 26, 1841, and died October 11, 1848), Martha C. (born May 24, 1844, and died August 29, 1844), Jesse Thomas (born January 31, 1846, and was killed in one of the engagements near Richmond, October 17, 1864; he volunteered in 1861, and went with his brother; he is buried in the city of Richmond in a private lot), Eliza E. (who was born January 15, 1849, and died February 24, 1862). Frank K. was educated in the common schools of Ashley County, also in a private school, and as he was reared to a farm life by his father, he has made this his chief calling through life, and is now the owner of an exceptionally fertile farm of 240 acres, 50 of which are under the plow, yielding an average amount of cotton and corn. He is one of the public spirited citizens of the county, and is noted for his free-heartedness and generosity. He was elected to the position of justice of the peace in September, 1888, the duties of which he discharged in a very able manner, and for a number of years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Daniel’s maternal grandmother was Mary Elizabeth (Sewell) Thompson, wife of John N. Thompson, the mother of the former being Mary Carvel, a native of Ireland. Her husband, Thomas Sewell, was an Englishman, and emigrated to the colony of North Carolina some time prior to the Revolutionary War; was a soldier in the Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists, and after the war was over he remained in America, where he made his home for the rest of his life. He had three sons named William Waller, after a cousin of his in England. They all died in infancy.

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This family biography is one of 97 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ashley County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Ashley County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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