According to the book "Henry's Heritage Vol. II" published in 1980, both Daniel and his wife Cynthia were born and reared near Lawrenceville, Henry County, Alabama. They married at the home of her parents by John R. Dominy, J.P. Two of their ten children were born in Henry Co., Alabama and were listed in the 1870 Census. In the fall of 1870, the family migrated to Pennington, TX. "They joined friends and relatives who were already in Texas and were followed by others." Two of her husband Daniel's brothers, Alexander & Seaborn and his uncle Alexander Blackshear, Jr. had settled in Trinity County, TX by the 1860 Census. According to family tradition, the family took a boat from Mobile, Alabama to Galveston, TX and took a boat up the Trinity River to Sebastopol and then to Pennington on horseback.
According to the book "Henry's Heritage Vol. II" published in 1980, both Daniel and his wife Cynthia were born and reared near Lawrenceville, Henry County, Alabama. They married at the home of her parents by John R. Dominy, J.P. Two of their ten children were born in Henry Co., Alabama and were listed in the 1870 Census. In the fall of 1870, the family migrated to Pennington, TX. "They joined friends and relatives who were already in Texas and were followed by others." Two of her husband Daniel's brothers, Alexander & Seaborn and his uncle Alexander Blackshear, Jr. had settled in Trinity County, TX by the 1860 Census. According to family tradition, the family took a boat from Mobile, Alabama to Galveston, TX and took a boat up the Trinity River to Sebastopol and then to Pennington on horseback.
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