Plummer Daniel was born in North Carolina in 1797. My gg-grandfather Robert Calaway Daniel was born July 18, 1791 in North Carolina, the fifth child of Joseph (Jobe) Daniel (ca 1750-ca 1814) and Elizabeth (Calaway) Andress Daniel (ca 1757 - ca 1853). The family of Joseph and Elizabeth Calaway Daniel came to Bedford County Tennessee about 1808 and settled near the Lincoln County line, in what is now Moore County. Robert C. Daniel died in Bedford County on 16 May 1870 "after living 78 years 9 months 28 days," and was buried on his farm on Daniel Hollow Road (now in Moore County). This ancestry is supported by the research of Felix W. Motlow of Lynchburg, and the research of Evelyn Van Meter, who wrote the article on the Robert C. Daniel family published in the Bedford County Family History Book. Plummer Daniel seems to have come from Rhea County Tennessee in the 1830's and settled near Robert C. Daniel in Bedford County. Robert C. Daniel and Hezekiah Ray were witnesses to the sale of 60 acres by Elijah Parker to Plummer Daniel on December 12, 1836. Plummer and Robert were residing in Dist. No. 24 according to the 1836 Bedford County, TN tax list. Plummer Daniel moved to Wayne County Tennessee about 1854, and has many descendants. Recently completed 12 marker Y-chromosome DNA tests done by www.familytreedna.com show that samples from me, Clay Daniels, as a direct male descendant of Robert Calaway Daniel are an exact match with those of Faron Daniel, a direct male descendant of Plummer Daniel. We are in the process of upgrading to the 25 marker test, but the 12 marker results are conclusive enough to indicate that Robert C. Daniel and Plummer Daniel had a common male ancestor. Conclusive enough that our of some 10,000 samples so far collected by Family Tree DNA, we are the only two with this particular 12 marker DNA code. The question now is how Plummer and Robert C. Daniel are related. Their ages and common birthplace suggest they are brothers but the DNA results only say they have a common male ancestor, so they could be uncle/nephew or cousins too. Hoping to figure this out, Clay Daniels This was posted to both the Bedford and Wayne County lists.