This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLAND, MCDANIEL Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4447 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 19, 1900, Volume XXXII, Number 7, Page 2, Column 2, “Obituary--MCDANIEL.” [Transcribed 28 Mar 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] William MCDANIEL was born in Tennessee on December 10, 1824, and died at his home in Highland Township, April 12, 1900, aged 75 years, 4 months and 2 days. On the 30th of November 1851, he was united in marriage to Mary BLAND, a sister of the late Simon BLAND. To this union was born 7 children, 4 sons and 3 daughters, all of whom are living. Mr. MCDANIEL was a carpenter and a wagon maker, and also spent a portion of his time farming. For strict honesty, no man stood higher than he did. For the greater part of his life he enjoyed good health, but as age advanced he realized that his strength was declining, and for the two months immediately preceding his death, decline was rapid. On the day of his death he seemed unusually cheerful, eating heartily at the noon hour; but soon after 1 o’clock he complained of a pain in the region of the heart, and by 2 o’clock p.m. his spirit had taken its flight into the great beyond. Though a plain man, who moved in a humble sphere, yet he reared for himself a noble monument, a character that will grow brighter as the years roll by. We honor his memory. His remains were interred Friday in the Simon BLAND graveyard. — Link to the Obituary of his son, Wesley MCDANIEL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=3131 — NOTES—RLJ: (1) 1850 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Beech Creek Township, 28 Sep 1850, Page 329B, Dwelling 709, Family 709, Lines 30—39: Aron MCDANIEL (56, M, Farmer, $1000, NC), Anne (50, f, TN), William (24, m, Laborer, TN), John (22, m, Laborer, TN), Susanna (20, f, TN), Jacob (18, m, TN), Stephen (16, m, TN), Elisha (14, m, TN), James (12, m, TN), Malinda (4, f, IN). (2) 1880 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Highland Township, 1 Jun 1880, Page 34C, Dwelling 217, Family 220, Lines 16—20: MCDANIEL, William (w, m, 55, farmer, TN, NC, NC), Mary (w, f, 47, Wife, keeping house, IN, NC, NC), Mourning (w, f, dau, at home, IN, TN, IN), John H. (w, m, 16, son, works on farm, IN, TN, IN), James H. (w, m, 6 Son, IN, TN, IN). Also, Aaron MCDANIEL (w, m, 85, Father, retired farmer, NC, VA, VA) was living near in household of Elisha MCDANIEL. (3) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana; Book ! R-5, Page 64: Wm MCDANIEL, died 12 Apr 1900 in Highland Township; buried 13 Apr 1900 in Bland Cemetery. Father—Aaron MCDANIEL, b. unknown; Mother—Unknown, b. unknown. (4) Wm MCDANIEL was not listed in the Bland Cemetery.