Served in the War of 1812. Participant of the Great Migration (to Oregon) of 1843. Farmer, and supporter of the Provisional Government of Oregon.
Young Daniel Matheny, serving under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, like all the participants at the battle there in January of 1815, was unaware that the British and the Americans had already signed a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 some weeks earlier. When the news arrived, Daniel was mustered out of the army and he returned to his parent's home in Harden County, Kentucky.
While in New Orleans, Daniel had witnessed a slave auction. An old slave begged to the young man to buy him, sensing a better life than the killing sugar cane brakes of Louisiana. This event forever turned Matheny against slavery and, said his daughter Charlotte, caused him to move to the North. The Ohio River even then was a boundary separating the Southern slave culture from the North, but it wouldn't be until 1821 when the Missouri Compromise was reached that the river became the official boundary between slave and free states. Sometime in 1817 or 1818 Daniel, with his brothers Joshua and Henry and sister Mary Matheny Cooper (Mrs. William Wood Cooper), crossed the Ohio, the northern boundary of Hardin County, Kentucky, and settled in Indiana by his kinsman Isaiah Cooper, in what was to become Owen County.
Young Daniel Matheny, serving under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, like all the participants at the battle there in January of 1815, was unaware that the British and the Americans had already signed a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 some weeks earlier. When the news arrived, Daniel was mustered out of the army and he returned to his parent's home in Harden County, Kentucky.
While in New Orleans, Daniel had witnessed a slave auction. An old slave begged to the young man to buy him, sensing a better life than the killing sugar cane brakes of Louisiana. This event forever turned Matheny against slavery and, said his daughter Charlotte, caused him to move to the North. The Ohio River even then was a boundary separating the Southern slave culture from the North, but it wouldn't be until 1821 when the Missouri Compromise was reached that the river became the official boundary between slave and free states. Sometime in 1817 or 1818 Daniel, with his brothers Joshua and Henry and sister Mary Matheny Cooper (Mrs. William Wood Cooper), crossed the Ohio, the northern boundary of Hardin County, Kentucky, and settled in Indiana by his kinsman Isaiah Cooper, in what was to become Owen County.
Served in the War of 1812. Participant of the Great Migration (to Oregon) of 1843. Farmer, and supporter of the Provisional Government of Oregon.
Young Daniel Matheny, serving under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, like all the participants at the battle there in January of 1815, was unaware that the British and the Americans had already signed a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 some weeks earlier. When the news arrived, Daniel was mustered out of the army and he returned to his parent's home in Harden County, Kentucky.
While in New Orleans, Daniel had witnessed a slave auction. An old slave begged to the young man to buy him, sensing a better life than the killing sugar cane brakes of Louisiana. This event forever turned Matheny against slavery and, said his daughter Charlotte, caused him to move to the North. The Ohio River even then was a boundary separating the Southern slave culture from the North, but it wouldn't be until 1821 when the Missouri Compromise was reached that the river became the official boundary between slave and free states. Sometime in 1817 or 1818 Daniel, with his brothers Joshua and Henry and sister Mary Matheny Cooper (Mrs. William Wood Cooper), crossed the Ohio, the northern boundary of Hardin County, Kentucky, and settled in Indiana by his kinsman Isaiah Cooper, in what was to become Owen County.
Young Daniel Matheny, serving under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, like all the participants at the battle there in January of 1815, was unaware that the British and the Americans had already signed a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 some weeks earlier. When the news arrived, Daniel was mustered out of the army and he returned to his parent's home in Harden County, Kentucky.
While in New Orleans, Daniel had witnessed a slave auction. An old slave begged to the young man to buy him, sensing a better life than the killing sugar cane brakes of Louisiana. This event forever turned Matheny against slavery and, said his daughter Charlotte, caused him to move to the North. The Ohio River even then was a boundary separating the Southern slave culture from the North, but it wouldn't be until 1821 when the Missouri Compromise was reached that the river became the official boundary between slave and free states. Sometime in 1817 or 1818 Daniel, with his brothers Joshua and Henry and sister Mary Matheny Cooper (Mrs. William Wood Cooper), crossed the Ohio, the northern boundary of Hardin County, Kentucky, and settled in Indiana by his kinsman Isaiah Cooper, in what was to become Owen County.
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