That's interesting. Newton is a common middle name among West Virginia Hamricks too. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: motesp@hiwaay.net >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Hamrick/Daniel relationship >Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2000, 3:53 PM > >More "facts" to prove the newspaper article/obituary about Dot Deloris >HAMRICK Hancock may be in error: > >The line from the obituray, Cullman Tribune, 6 Jan 00, in question: > >> "Dot's great uncle, Jack Daniels, a Cherokee Indian, founded the >>Tennessee Distillery, even though most of his Alabama kin are tee-totlers." >> > >We just did some quick checking (on the internet, so the data may or may >not be accurate of course): The Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN >is celebrating Mr. Jack's 150th birthday in 2000. Even though I've never >claimed to be a great math student, I do believe that would indicate that >Mr. Jack was born in 1850. From my Tennessee history, I don't recall him >having children (does anyone know if he ever married? I can't find it); >the distillery has stayed in the family but through one of his brother's >lines. > >Anyway, based on distillery data on the internet, Mr. Jack was born in >1850. Burt Daniel, the great uncle (by marriage) of Dot Deloris Hamrick >Hancock, was born circa 1850 (just like Mr. Jack). Burt DANIEL married >Nancy Jane HAMRICK on 21 Dec 1870 in Cleburne County, AL; she was born >circa 1852 (based on the 1870 Cleburne County, AL census). Nancy Jane >Hamrick Daniel is buried at Mars Hill Cemetery in Cleburne County, AL; she >died in 1884. > >There is one really interesting fact about Mr. Jack Daniel as it relates to >the HAMRICK family. Jack's "real" name was Jasper Newton Daniel. Newton >is a common middle name in our Hamrick line - found in several different >generations, always as a middle name. Nancy Jane Hamrick's father was >James Newton Hamrick (who married Lucy Ann DUKE). In the Duke line there >are three Newtons - one Newton Jasper Duke b. Dec 1870, Newton Walton Duke >b. Feb 1904, and Newton James Duke, b. ca. 1930. > >I haven't even started on the part of the obituary that Jack Daniel was a >Cherokee Indian <G>. > >Pat >motesp@hiwaay.net >