Daniel Mikesell
Co. I, 16th KS. Cavalry

Daniel L. Mikesell was born in 1836, in Indiana, and was reared in Elkhart County, that state, until he was seventeen years of age, at which time he went with his parents to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There he was married and remained until past twenty-one years of age, and in 1858 came to Kansas and settled near Neosho Falls, in Woodson County, where he preempted eighty acres of land. On that property he resided until 1869, when he came to Wilson County and took up a farm nine miles from Fredonia, there carrying on operations until his retirement in 1907, when he disposed of his holding and removed to Fredonia. Mr. Mikesell has led a successful career, and now, in the evening of life, is in the enjoyment of a comfortable competency. He is a republican, but has not held office.

In 1864 he answered the call of his country and enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry, an organization with which he served during the remainder of the Civil war, participating in the battles of Westport, Newtonia, Mine Creek Missouri, and following Price down into Arkansas at the time of that general's second raid into Missouri.

The Neodesha Register, Thursday, August 15, 1929, Pg. 8
Volume 46, Number 33

DANIEL MIKESELL DIED AT FREDONIA SATURDAY.

Daniel Mikesell, aged 93 years, 4 months and 6 days, father of E. P. Mikesell, died last Saturday at 12:40 a. m. at the family residence in Fredonia. Mr. Mikesell had been very ill for several days and his death was not unexpected.

Funeral services were conducted from the home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment was made in the family lot in Neodesha cemetery beside the grave of his wife, who died several years ago.

Daniel Mikesell was born in Indiana, in 1836, he later resided in Iowa, where he married to May J. Lingel. In 1859 the Mikesell family moved to Woodson county, Kans. And in 1868 they settled in Wilson county. Mr. Mikesell was a veteran of the Civil war, serving with a Kansas company for two years. When the Mikesell family settled in Talleyrand township this was still a primitive country. Daniel Mikesell became one of the leaders among the settlers. He has resided at Fredonia for a number of years since leaving the farm.

Obituary supplied by John Jackson of Chanute, Kansas, as well as the photograph of the headstone.