 | "Pottsboro Notes"
Denison Herald
9 September 1907
Mrs.
M.B. Daniels, a pioneer citizen of this community, died Friday morning
after a short illness at her residence, about three or four miles west
of town and was buried Saturday evening in the Brogdon cemetery.
A vast throng of people gathered at the cemetery to pay their
last respects to an old and highly respected friend. Mrs. Daniels
was born in Cass County, Mo. January 1841, and moved to Texas with her
parents in 1854 and settled in Ellis County, where she was married in
1865 to Robert Daniels. Directly after her marriage she and her
husband returned to Missouri where they remained a short time and
returned to Texas, where they settled on the old homestead, just west
of Pottsboro.
She
was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom survive her.
When she and her husband located their land and settled on it,
sometime in 1865, they did not have many neighbors. There was a
settlement at Martin Springs and a ranch house where Pottsboro now
stands, and perhaps a half dozen pioneer log cabins scattered around
within a radius of six or seven miles. Her husband died in 1884,
and was buried in the Brogdon Cemetery.
She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Trayham.
She professed religion and joined the Methodist Church in 1842, and lived a consistent Christian to the date of her death. |
