My Great, Great Grandparents, William Franklin EADS SR & Amanda America Clementine MCDANIEL-EADS

Photographed by Larry and Sharon Hackworth and Heather Luebbert. Amanda America Clementine McDaniel was born Nov. 4, 1834 in one of the Carolinas to Albert Allen McDaniel and Casandy Eades, and she married William Franklin Eads Sr. on Mar 10 1855 or 1860 in Davie, NC. They moved to Missouri in 1870 or 1871. Names of eleven children are known: Roxanne Vanoy, Eli Wyatt Eads, Andrew Huston Eads, William Franklin Eads Jr., Nancy Jane Johnson, Mary Bell "Molly" Campbell, Clemmon Eads, Johnnie Eads, Lucy Eads, Minnie Eads and Martha Eads. Following is from "The History of Southeast Missouri" Published in Chicago by the Goodspeed Publilshing Co. in 1888. "W.F. Eads (Sr. and husband to Amanda McDaniel) was born in Wilkes County NC , and is the son of John and Polly Massey Eads. The elder Eads - John - was also born in Wilkes County, where he lived and died. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and was considered a fine workman, but he never especially followed the trade, turning his attention to farming, as he owned a splendid farm in his native county. The mother was also born in North Carolina, and there spent her entire life. The father was forty-six years of age when he died from the effects of a cancer. The mother died about one year ago about 1887 , at the advanced age of eighty-seven. There were eight children in the family, three of whom are now living: John, Nancy and William F.; those dead are Alvin, Pinckney, Milly , Alfred, Granberry and James. Mr. Eads W. F. was married in North Carolina, in 1859 to Annie McDaniel, and had eleven children, six of them now living. Mr. Eads served in the late war Civil as a private under Robert E. Lee, Thirty-fourth North Carolina Regiment Confederate ; was in the service twelve months, participating in the entire fight known as the Virginia Wilderness and this regiment is credited with opening the firing , lasting for eleven days. He was captured at Hanover Junction, with 900 other comrades, was taken to Point Lookout, and confined in prison nearly a year, suffering greatly during his term of imprisonment. He was afterward paroled. Mr. Eads has devoted his life to farming, and owns 125 acres, 80 of which are under cultivation. He and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church." Amanda (McDaniel) Eads was one of the charter members of the New Hope Church in Silva, MO, in August 1901. She died Jan. 12, 1917. Birth and death dates are from the online enumeration of New Prospect (Bounds Creek) Cemetery records by David Bollinger, church historian, and they conflict with this headstone.

Frank & Mandy Eads