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Ignatius
O’Daniel was born in 1809 or 1810 in
Alabama UN10, UN11. Alabama did not become a territory of
America until 1817, but by stating to the census enumerator that he was born in
Alabama, Ignatius probably meant that he was born in an area that was inside
the boundaries of land that became known as Alabama.
Ignatius
married two women who were both named Elizabeth, and his first marriage has
sometimes been alleged to have occurred in 1836 in Union County, Illinois to
Elizabeth “Murden”. In June 2012 a representative from the Union County Clerk
and Recorder office in Jonesboro, Illinois stated that a marriage certificate
for Ignatius O’Daniel and Elizabeth Murden was not
discovered in that office, but did remark that records
were located which revealed that Ignatius was a minister who performed marriage
rites in Union County. The marriage record for Ignatius O’Daniel in 1836 was not
recorded in the Union County, Illinois marriage record book entitled “Marriage
Record 1 1829-53” UN22,
but “Ignatius O’Daniel Minister of the Gospel” did officiate at the marriage
ceremonies of Elisha Stephens and Mary Biggs on July 12, 1843 and C.W. Andersen
and Nancy Black on July 20, 1843 UN22.
These may have been his first two weddings as a minister in Union County, as
his name was not found from the years spanning 1836 until 1843 in the Union
County marriage record book for 1829 through 1853.
Ignatius
Odaniel and Thomas Ferrell were listed as the original patentees, or owners, of
the eighty-acre parcel of land in the north half of the northeast quarter in
Section 18, Township 11 South in Union County, Illinois DE22, DE25. In 1846, the owner of that parcel was
George W. Ferrill DE22, DE25. However, according to the General Land
Office Records, “Ignatius O Daniell” purchased forty acres in Union County,
Illinois, which was the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter in Section 18,
Township 11 South on August 1, 1838 GE4.
A
man named John O’Daniell, who may have been related to Ignatius O’Daniel, was
mentioned in the Union County, Illinois probate record for Henry Tope, who died
in September 1838 DE24.
John O’Daniell was owed $1.50 for moving the family of Henry Tope, and an
additional $35.00 for boarding his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Tope, and her daughter for six weeks and six days DE24.
Ignatius O’Daniell, James O’Daniell, and John O’Daniell were all mentioned in a
list of purchasers of the estate of Henry Tope, the sale of which occurred on
December 26, 1838 DE24.
Ignatius
Odaniell, John Odaniel, and James Odaniell were recorded in the 1839 tax list
for Union County, Illinois DE22, DE25. Ignatius owned one horse which was
worth $50, two cows which had a value of $14, one watch which was worth $5, and
other personal property valued at $50, for a total of
taxable personal property of $119 DE22, DE25. A
Union County, Illinois probate record stated that Ignatius O’Daniell was listed
among the purchasers of the estate of Jonas Thompson, who died in April 1841 DE24.
The sale of his estate occurred on June 14, 1841 DE24.
Ignatius O’daniel was named as the guardian for Henry Jackson Hunter in 1842 DE23.
While
census records indicate that he was a farmer, and his land purchases support
this, Ignatius was also a pastor of Lime Stone Church
in Union County, which was a part of the Clear Creek Association of Baptist
churches BU9. In 1842, he and Robert P. Gentry were purportedly elders for
Pleasant Hill Christian Church in Jackson County LA21. As “Ignatius Odaniell”, he purchased two parcels of forty acres
apiece in Section 33, Township 9 South, in Jackson County, Illinois on November
1, 1849 GE4. These were the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter and
the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 33 in Township 9
South in Jackson County, Illinois GE4, BO35.
Ignatius O’Daniel was called a farmer and a Baptist preacher of the Clear Creek
Association who lived near John Welty and James M. Davis in Carbonale Township,
Jackson County at the time of the 1850 US Census WR7.
Just
eight months after Elizabeth died, which allegedly occurred in February 1856,
Ignatius married Elizabeth Anderson. William Ferrell officiated
over the wedding ceremony of “Ignatious O Daniel” and Elizabeth M. Anderson on
October 10, 1856 in Williamson County, Illinois WI34. Elizabeth Anderson brought to the marriage two children from her
own previous marriage, Benjamin and Frances Anderson.
She and Ignatius then became the parents of William and Sarah N. O’Daniel, who
were toddlers in 1860.
“I.
O’Daniel” was listed among the claimants against the estate of Thomas Jones in
September 1857; his claim was for $2.25 MU7. The
1860 non-population agricultural census showed his farm to have forty improved
acres, 190 unimproved acres, one horse, one milk cow, seven other cattle,
eleven sheep, and twenty-five pigs.
Although he did have a distinctive
name, he shared it with another who was also from Illinois. A man named
Ignatius O’Daniell enlisted on February 29, 1864 as a private in Company E of
the 81st Regiment, and later Company D of the 58th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry, was
discharged on April 6, 1866 FE1. This
was not the Ignatius O’Daniel who was the father of Mary T. O’Daniell. Two key facts were included in this man’s
pension record which prove that these were two different men. Primarily, the
Ignatius O’Daniell who served in the Illinois Infantry was the age of
forty-eight on August 12, 1895, when he appeared before a notary public to sign
the Declaration of Original Invalid Pension
FE1, which indicates that he was born in
approximately 1847. Secondly, this Ignatius O’Daniell signed an affidavit on
July 1, 1898, which stated that he was not married and
he had no children FE1.
According
to information found on the Find a Grave
website, Ignatius died on April 14, 1864 at the age of fifty-four years, six
months, and fifteen days, and was buried at Lake Creek (Hartwell) Cemetery in Spillertown, Williamson County,
Illinois. The words “Igna… Odaniell” were faintly discernable on his
gravestone, but all other words and dates were not legible. According
to the transcription of his headstone, Ignatius O’Daniell died at the age of
fifty-four years, six months, and fifteen days on April 14, 1864 LI8. He was buried at Lakecreek-Hartwell Cemetery in Williamson
County, Illinois LI8.
The
parents of Ignatius have not yet been ascertained, but a man named Michael
“odaniell” was a signer to a petition to President Madison regarding the
relocation of a large group who had established a settlement on Elk River in
Mississippi Territory CA80. Before Alabama became its own distinct
territory, it was part of a larger body of land called Mississippi Territory.
Elk River is at the northernmost boundary of Alabama, north of Athens, and just
south of Tennessee. Of the 450 men and women who signed this petition, the
first three listed were “Wm Sims”, James Sims, and Michael “odaniell” CA80. The 1810 census for
Mississippi Territory has been lost, and for this reason a list of all men with
the O’Daniel or Odaniel surnames, or variations thereof, cannot be compiled;
this would have been useful to narrow down potential fathers for Ignatius. This
Michael odaniell, the petitioner, may have been the Michael ODaniel whose name
was on a list of taxable property in Knox County, Tennessee in 1804; this
Michael owned 150 acres on West Flat Creek TE4.
What
is interesting about the signatures of the petition is the proximity of the
names of Sims and odaniell. This may be coincidence, or it may indicate that
Michael odaniell was a firm supporter, and perhaps a comrade, of William and
James Sims. It may be hazarded that perhaps Ignatius was the son of Michael
odaniell, and Christopher Sims (see below) was a son or a nephew of James or
William Sims. The grandchildren of Ignatius and Christopher eventually married,
and if this conjecture (that Ignatius and Christopher were the sons of the men
who signed the petition) is correct, perhaps one factor in their marriage was
this potential link between the O’Daniel and Sims families. Portions of the
petition of the Elk River settlers have been transcribed below CA80:
September
5th 1810-
To his
Excellency James Maddison President of the United States of
america and the honourable Congress… We your petitioners… have
unfortunately settled on what is now Called chickasaw land which has led us
into difficultys that tongue cannot express if the orders from the ware [war]
department are Executed in removeing us off of said land… in the first
Place we understood that all the land on the north side of tennessee river was
purchased of the indians which was certainly the Case and further we understood
that this was congress land as we call it and by paying of two Dollars per acre
we should obtain An undoubted title to our lands… a great many of us solde our
possessions and Came and settled here in the winter and spring of 1807 without
any knoledg or intention of violating the laws of government or Infringing on
the right of another nation and we remained in this peacefull situation untill
the fall of 1807 when General Robertson Came on runing the chickasaw boundary
line and he informed us that though the cherokees had sold this land yet the
chickasaws held a clame to it as their right and now as booth nations [had] set
up a clame to this land… we who are well acquainted with the boundarys of this
country do think in Justice that the cherokees had undoubtedly the best right
to this land… the cherokees do say that they have held an antiant clame to it
which they never lost by sword or treaty, untill extingushed by government… you
are allso willing to pay the chickasaws for their clame and they refuse to sell
it… if they will not take a reasonable price for their clame we will not remove
our Fellow citizens off which will bring many women and children to a state of
starvation mearly to gratify a heathan nation Who have no better right to this
land than we have ourselves and they have by estemation nearly 100000 acres of
land to each man Of their nation and of no more use to government or society
than to saunter about upon like so many wolves or bares whilst they who would
be a supporte to government and improve the country must be forsed even to rent
poore stoney ridges to make a support to rase their famelies on whist there is
fine fertile countrys lying uncultivated and we must be debared even from
inJoying a small Corner of this land… we… believe it Compleatly within your
power Whilst you are administring Justice between us and the chickasaws to say
with the greatest propriety that we have once purchased this land and we will
not remove our fellow citizens off but let them remain as tennants at will
untill the chickasaws may feell a disposition to sell us their clame… we must
informe you that in the settling of this country men was obliged to expose
themselves very much and the Climate not helthy a number of respectable men
have deceased and left their widows with families of alphan [orphan] children
to rase in the best way they can and you might allmost as well send the sword
amongst us as the fammin the time being shorte that our orders permits us to
stay on we wish you to send us an answer to our petition as soon as posable
and, for heavens Sake Pause to think what is to become of these poore alphan
families… we are certain in our own minds that if you could have A true
representation of our carractor the industry we have made and the purity of our
intentions in settling here together With the Justice of our cause you would
say in the name of God let them stay on and eat their well earned bread Perhaps
our number may be fare more than you are apprised of from the best calculation
that we can make there is… 2250 souls on what is called chickasaw land and all
of us could live tollarable comfortable if we Could remain on our improvements
but the distance is so great if we are removed off that we cannot take our
produce with Us…
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1840 US Census: lived in Union County,
Illinois with one boy and one girl under five years old, one boy between five
and ten years, and one woman age twenty to twenty-nine.
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1850 US Census: lived in Southern
District, Jackson County, Illinois.
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1860 US Census: lived in Township 8, Range 3E, Williamson County,
Illinois.
Elizabeth was born about the year 1814 in Kentucky, as
stated on the 1850 census record, which recorded her name as “Elizabeth A”. The epitaph on her gravestone, which listed
her age at the time of her death, also indicated that she was born in 1814. Her
surname was probably “Merden”, because a marriage record for a woman named
Clara Felts indicated that she was the daughter of Ignatious Odaniel and
Elizabeth Merden WI32. If her surname was
“Merden”, then it is possible that she was related to John Murden of Jackson
County, Illinois. John “Murdon” was enumerated in Jackson County, Illinois in
the 1830 US Census with seven children, including four girls who were between
the ages of ten and nineteen UN8. On
August 1, 1838, John Murden purchased two parcels of forty acres apiece in
Section 34, Township 9 South, in Jackson County, Illinois – the southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter, and the northwest quarter of the northeast
quarter GE4. These parcels were very near the land
purchased by Ignatius O’Daniel in 1848 and 1849. John Murden was called the
first permanent settler in Carbondale Township, Jackson County, Illinois in
1829, settling in Section 34 near the Phelps family, who were called squatters MA47. His home was utilized as a house of worship in 1831, and in
1833, he was a schoolteacher in a barn owned by William Bradford which was used
to house tobacco on Drury Creek MA47.
Elizabeth
was the mother of most of the children who were
recorded in the O’Daniel household in the 1850 and 1860 census years. Angus O’Daniel was born about 1838 UN10, UN15, but according to his
gravestone located at Mount Hope Cemetery in Belleville, St. Clair County,
Illinois (a photo of which can be viewed on the Find a Grave website), he was born on June 15, 1840 and was a
sergeant in Company C of the 15th Illinois Cavalry. Angus “Odaniel”
married Elizabeth E. Crossno on May 24, 1863 in Franklin County, Illinois IL1. He was a widower in
1910, when he lived in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois UN15. At that time, he
stated that he was seventy-two and was born in Illinois to a father who was
born in Alabama and a mother who was born in Kentucky UN15. His gravestone
recorded that his death occurred on December 29, 1912.
Martha O’Daniel was
born in September 1837 UN14 or
about 1839 UN10. Martha “Odaniel” married Joseph W. Hartwell on November 25,
1858 in Williamson County, Illinois WI34. Joseph
W. Hartwell and Martha Hartwell resided in Marion, Williamson County, Illinois
during the 1900 US Census; the record indicated that Martha was born in
Illinois to parents who were each born in Tennessee UN14. Martha Hartwell died as a widow at age sixty-eight on October
11, 1907 in Marion, Williamson County, Illinois, and her death was allegedly
caused by angina pectoris WI33.
Aaron O’Daniel was
born about 1841 UN10, UN12 or
1842 UN11. In July 1863, Aaron O’Daniel was twenty-two years old and
resided in Lake Creek, Williamson County, Illinois US3. He was enumerated in Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois in 1870
with his wife, Elisa, and their three children, including one-year-old Aretta UN12. A Franklin County, Illinois marriage record dated March 18,
1896 for twenty-seven-year-old “Arretta Odanel” and C.E. Moore indicated that
Arretta’s parents were Aaron “Odanel” and Eliza A. “Johnes” IL1. Aaron’s wife, Eliza A., may have been the daughter of Coleman
and Lydia Jones, who in 1860 resided near the O’Daniel family in Township 8,
Range 3E, Williamson County, Illinois UN11.
James
Harvey O’Daniel was
born about 1843 in Illinois UN10, UN11. He
was probably the James H. O’Daniel who enlisted as a private on August 15, 1862
RE28, US6 and
joined the 9th
Illinois Infantry Regiment on November 5, 1862 RE28, US6. He said to have been
in Company A and Company D of the 9th
Infantry Regiment US6.
This James H. O’Daniel died in Andersonville Prison on June 1, 1864 and was
buried in Andersonville National Cemetery in Andersonville, Georgia RE28, US8.
Jasper O’Daniel was
born about 1845 UN10, UN11. He
may have been the Jasper O’Daniels who was a private in Company L of the 16th Illinois Cavalry Regiment CI3, RE28 who
died at Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, Georgia on July 20, 1864 RE28. Mary T. O’Daniel
(O’Daniell) was born on October 8, 1847 in Carbondale, Illinois, according to
her Union County, Illinois death certificate.
Clary or Clara O’Daniel was
born about 1848 in Illinois UN10, UN11. “Claria
Odaniel” married George W. Felts on July 8, 1866 in Williamson County, Illinois
WI34. A marriage record for Clara Felts and Elijah Pike of Lake
Creek, Illinois indicated that Clara’s maiden surname was “Odaniel”, and she
was the daughter of Ignatious Odaniel and Elizabeth Merden WI32. Clara and Elijah married on June 26, 1887 in Williamson
County, Illinois, and Clara stated that she was born in Jackson County,
Illinois and would be thirty-four at her next birthday, and that this was her
second marriage WI32. Claria Pike, a
widow, resided in Carterville Township, Williamson County, Illinois with her
son, John Pike, at the time of the 1910 US Census UN15. She stated that she was sixty-one years old, born in Illinois,
to a father who was born in Ireland and a mother who was born in Illinois UN15. A photograph of a memorial stone (which can be found on the Find a Grave website) located in Oakwood
Cemetery in Carterville, Williamson County, Illinois for “Elija Pike”, who died
in 1909, and “Clara his wife”, stated that she died on October 31, 1913.
Elizabeth O’Daniel was
born in Illinois in April 1850, as she was five months old when the 1850 US
census enumerator recorded her age on September 14, 1850 UN10. Letha O’Daniel was
born about 1851 in Illinois UN11. Nancy O’Daniel was born about 1853 UN11 or 1854 in Illinois UN12.
She lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Martha
and Joseph Hartwell, in Township 9 Range 2 in Williamson County, Illinois in
1870 UN12.
In the 1860 census
record, a woman who was also named “Elizabeth A.” was listed directly
underneath the name “I. O’daniel”, but she was just thirty-two years old, and
was born in Tennessee. This particular Elizabeth was
the second wife of Ignatius, who happened to have the same given name.
Additional children who lived in the O’Daniel household in 1860 were William
O’Daniel, born about 1858, Sarah N. O’Daniel, born about 1859, Benj(amin)
Anderson, born about 1850, and Frances J. Anderson, who was born about 1852.
These four children were born of Elizabeth (Anderson) O’Daniel, who was the
second wife of Ignatius; they were not the children of the first Mrs. Elizabeth O’Daniel.
According
to information on the Find a Grave
website, the first Elizabeth died on February 5, 1856 at the age of forty-one
years, five months, and twenty-nine days, and was buried at Lake Creek
(Hartwell) Cemetery in Spillertown, Williamson County, Illinois. The photograph
of her gravestone was only partially legible, but
appeared to state “… zabet… Wife of Igna… ODaniell died… 5 1856 Aged… 41 yrs...
29 d…” The transcription of her gravestone stated that Elizabeth
O’Daniell, the wife of Ignatius, died at the age of forty-one years, five
months, and twenty-nine days on February 5, 1856 LI8. She was buried at Lakecreek-Hartwell Cemetery in Williamson
County, Illinois LI8.
Other
individuals with the Murden surname who resided in Jackson County, Illinois in
the 1830s through the 1850s were James E. Murden, John Murden, and/or John S.
Murden BO35. James E. Murden owned the south half of the northwest quarter
of Section 34 in Township 9 South on September 23, 1854 BO35. John Murden owned the northwest quarter of the northeast
quarter of Section 34 in Township 9 South on September 11, 1837 BO35. John S. Murden owned the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of Section 33 in Township 9 South on November 27, 1848 BO35. John “Murder” owned the southeast quarter of the northeast
quarter of Section 34 in Township 9 South on May 28, 1836 BO35. The parcels of land owned by John Welty, Ignatius O’Daniel,
John S. Murden, James E. Murden, John Murden, and John “Murder” were all in very close proximity to each other BO35.
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1850 US Census: lived in Southern
District, Jackson County, Illinois.