Posted on: Talbot Co. Ga Wills Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/TalbotWill/16 Surname: McDaniel, Clark, Clarke, Braddy, Black, Jones, Reeves, McFarland, Williams, Tillman, Peterman ------------------------- Jamie, thanks for the reminder about the Frederick McDaniel and Polly Clarke marriage so close to Hiram's and Nancy's. Two McDaniel-Clark(e) marriages so close together do seem like more than a coincidence. My great-great grandfather Hiram McDaniel (Sept. 05, 1821 to March 3, 1894) and great-great grandmother Nancy Clark (October 01, 1824 to Dec. 07, 1883) married, settled and died in Talbot County. They had 16 children, all born in Talbot Co. The names above are surnames of the women and men who married into this family. These include William Alexander Braddy (m Martha Ann McD), Lucinda Pamelia Elizabeth Black (m William Jasper McD), Hulda Elizabeth Tillman (m Charles Thomas McD), Laura Peterman (m Charles Thomas McD), William Jones (m Ella McD), Emma Williams (m Henry Patrick McD), Mellie Reeves (m Benjamin Tyler McD), Henry McFarland (m Nancy Emma McD), Edna Eugene Black (m Allen Franklin McD) and John Thomas Black (m Leola Rebecca McD). Hiram (1821-1894) also married Mattie Elizabeth Unknown sometime after 1883. I hypothesize that there is a connection among the several McDaniel households resident in the Flint Hill and Pleasant Hill areas of Talbot at the time of the 1850 census. They are the John (abt. 1790 SC) and Anna (abt. 1800) McDaniel family, who I suspect are my Hiram's parents, and the Roderick McDaniel (b abt. 1765 Scotland), Hiram McDaniel (b abt. 1797 SC) and Lucy Chapman (b abt. 1814 GA) household nearby. I suspect that this Hiram (1797) may be John's (1790) brother and Hiram's (1821) uncle, and that Roderick (1765) may be John (1790) and Hiram's (1797) father. Further, it is my suspicion that Hiram and Nancy were counted twice in the 1850 census--first with the extended family of John and Anna in Flint Hill with Hiram's name misspelled Hixam, along with dau. Martha (6), and later during the census year in their own household in Pleasant Hill with their children correctly identified. An interim move and two different census takers would explain this. It is my hope that someone related to one of these families has records that will help us to connect or disconnect these early Talbot County McDaniel families. I look forward to hearing from anyone with information or ideas about any of these people. Barbara McDaniel Ray Atlanta, GA