Re: [DANIEL-L] Re: Daniels in Jasper Co.IN > Hi Kevin, > I cannot connect to the Payne Daniel & John Clarke gang but read, with great > interest, everyone's postings.... My Daniel clan came to NC (Davie, Rowan, > Alexander, Iredell counties) but story says they came from the ROAN River in > VA.. Any idea where that was & have you ever heard of Yerby Daniel b1784 in > Davie Co. Evelyn > Evelyn, like you, I don't connect to the tidewater Daniel lines either. First records found for my Robert C. Daniel (1791 NC-1870 TN) and his proven DNA relative Plummer Daniel are out in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina in the 1810 Buncombe County census. Not all that far from your relatives in the Yadkin Valley. In the 1810 Buncombe County North Carolina census, we apparently see my young as yet childless gg-grandparents Robert C. Daniel and Nancy Kimsey living next to an older Hiram Daniel. Hiram is believed to be the father of Plummer Daniel. There is a William Daniel living nearby, apparently a little younger than Hiram, with young children. Hiram Daniel had a land grant in Rutherford County in 1799, in this same area of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The interesting thing is that Nancy Kimsey's widowed mother and family are also living there in Buncombe county. The Kimsey's and Robert C. Daniel moved to Duck River Tennessee sometime between 1810 and 1813, settling in Bedford County Tennessee, where some still remain, although my great grandfather Humphrey Posey Kimsey Daniel moved to Mississippi in 1851. There are still Kimsey relatives living in western North Carolina. We have a lot more information on the Kimsey family origins than our Daniel line. My gg-grandmother Nancy Kimsey's father Benjamin Kimsey II first married to Margaret Gregg in Augusta County Virginia. Margaret Gregg was born in Cumberland County Pennsylvania. Benjamin Kimsey migrated to Henry County Virginia, and on the death of his first wife, married Agness Lane. Benjamin is buried in Henderson County North Carolina. Benjamin Kimsey was a farmer and a Baptist minister. We cannot conclude that my Daniel ancestors followed the same migration path as the Kimsey's, but it does give some clues. These folks don't seem to have been flatlanders, even if some later moved to the swamps of Mississippi and Texas. My wife jokes about how my ancestors lived just across the log from Snuffy Smith, but I remind her that my gg-grandfather Robert C. Daniel was literate enough to write his own will in 1867, and had sons who were school teachers and doctors. None the less, she finds it amusing we are planning to visit my cousin on Daniel Hollow, a few miles from Lynchburg Tennessee, after Christmas. I think you must mean the Roanoke River in Virginia, named for the red/brown "Roan" sediments that flow down from the hills of the Blue Ridge mountains. I don't recognize Yerby Daniel, but encourage you to find some male descendants to participate in our Daniel DNA project. Also, while the DANIEL list is informative, the local county lists at rootsweb really give a lot of information too. I participate in several Mississippi and Tennessee lists and the Buncombe North Carolina list too. Thanks for bringing up the question of the Daniel lines that are not from the southern coastal region. "ROANOKE, a river of the South Atlantic Slope, U.S.A. With the Staunton, which rises in the Appalachian Valley in southwestern Virginia, it constitutes one river, and, flowing in a general south-easterly direction, crosses the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina just above the Fall Line and discharges into Albemarle Sound." Clay Daniels Fort Worth, Texas