A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Santa Clara http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=596 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=37626 Submitted by: Eileen Gillette Article Title: The Daily Mercury Article Date: March 17 1898 Article Description: Another Pioneer Gone Mrs. Mary Daniels Taken Away By Old Age She Came Across The Plains In 1846 To Sutter's Fort - Resident Of San Jose For Forty - Four Years Article Text: Another one of the honored and esteemed pioneers of santa Clara coounty has been taken by death. Mrs. Lillace DANIELS, died at the residence of her stepdaughter, Mrs. Mary JONES, 64 West Julian Street, yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 o'clock. Her death was not unexpected, as she had been for several years failing in health and when death came the change seemed to be but the passing into as easy but everlasting sleep. To the pioneers of the county the news of her death will bring more than the usual sadness, for as one of their number many have made it yearly practice to pay her a visit and spend a day conversing upon subjects of which none but those who came to the county in early days could intelligently speak, She was one of those motherly old ladies who took an interest in the welfare of all, and made her friendship known not alone in words but in deeds. Mrs. Lillace DANIELS was born in Franklin county, Kentucky on May 18, 1801 and was 91 years and 10 months of age. When she was 5 years old her family moved to Indiana, in which state she was married to William DANIELS, and by the marriage became stepmother to two children, one of whom is Mary JONES with whom she spent the later years of her life. In 1842 Mr. DANIELS moved his family to Iowa and in 1846 the long and perilous journey of crossing the plains was undertaken. Mr. DANIELS and family started at first with the noted DONNER Party, but on reaching the Little Platte river, in Missouri, the company devided and their party came by the Southern route and arrived in Sutter's Fort in November 1846, where they remained during the Winter. Early in the month of February, 1947, they continued their journey, settling in San Jose, and one year later established their home on the premises where now stands the DANIELS house, which is known to most everyone, having been built acco! rding to the old octagon style in 1861. On these premises, Mrs. DANIELS spent continuosly the last forty-three years of her life. Her only child, Miss Hattie, died in 1861, having reached the age of twenty-one years. In 1873, her husband, William DANIELS, who had taken a prominent part inpolitics and was the occupant on severl occasions of municipal offices, died, and from this time on Mrs. DANIELS made her home with her stepdaughter, Mrs. Mary JONES. Her other stepdaughter, Mrs. S. DODD, died in 1865. From a family of nine children Mrs DANIELS was the last to surrender to the calls of death. The funeral will take place from the home at 64 West Julian Street, Saturday, March 18 at 2 p.m. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com