Could anyone tell me where in Henry County I might find the graves of any Guilfords? I found two children's graves in Lawrenceville at the Baptist Church cemetery. Also am looking for the grave of Lemuel Dallas Searcy and Phillip McDaniel. We looked at 5 cemeteries in Henry County Sunday afternoon, would be grateful for any help.

The McDaniels were a planter family on the River Road east of today's Haleburg. In years past and at the beginning of the past century, "McDaniel's Landing" was the port of choice used by Haleburg merchants, yeoman farmers and planters deeper into the piney woods. The landing was just south of the "South Abbey Landing" located at the mouth of the Abbie Creek on the Chattahoochee River. The McDaniel Home stood where the present home of Herschel Pelham is today. The land is owned by Charlotte Cumbie Doster of St. Petersburg, Florida, a descent of the Grimsley family of Haleburg. The nearest post office was at Smithville, Alabama for the McDaniels in the 1880s, across the Abbie Creek from the McDaniel Plantation. They moved from the Old River Road across Henry County to the Texasville area of Barbour County circa 1880.

Like many planter families, the Columbia Cemetery was used for burial and was located in Henry County until Houston County was formed in 1903. Phillip Alfred McDanielSr. is buried in this very old cemetery. This was P. A. McDaniel, Sr., the son of John McDaniel and Sara Ira Terry. P. A. McDaniel, Sr. was born in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. Many old families in Henry and Barbour County came from this area. In South Barbour County there remains today a community called "Edgefield, Alabama" that a group of settlers named after their native home in South Carolina. Some other old families from Edgefield District or nearby were the families of Hartzog, Adams, Espy, Spann, Kirkland (Hugh, Sr.), and Zorn.

The Columbia Cemetery marker of Phillip Alfred McDaniel shows the he was born February 13, 1813 and died March 30, 1888.

His wife, Jane Elizabeth Walker, was born October 23, 1813 in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. She died August 1, 1888.

One son is buried in the Columbia Cemetery: John C. McDaniel who died in service of the Confederacy at Chancellorsville, Virginia May 3, 1863. He was born February 22, 1844.

Philip Alfred McDaniel's grave is in the Dr. William Calvin Bethune plot. The cemetery is located behind the First Baptist Church in Abbeville and is known as The Abbeville City Cemetery.

Steve,

If I may add another son:

William W. McDaniel, Jun 7, 1838-Jul 10, 1892;
Major Coo B, Cobb's Ga Legion; m. Frances Horne,
1843-1895; buried Clopton Methodist Church
Cemetery, just across the county line in Dale Countynty.

Thanks,

Homer

Phillip also had a daughter, Nora Francis McDaniel b. 27 Mar 1847, that married Levi Creel Jr. Levi served in the CSA 29th Ala. Inf. Co. K.

Steve

Thank you so much for the information. I felt that was the case, but was glad to have it confirmed.

Deborah,

My recods show; Levi, Jr. and Preston H. Creel
were sons of Levi and Linai Creel; both served
in Co K of the 29th Ala Inf Rgt; Levi enlisted
at Clayton Mar 10, 1862 as private, age 19;
survived the war, but d. in 1875; Preston H.
enlisted at Clayton, same date, as a private,
age 22; elected 3d Lt in Sep 1862; wounded and
captured at Franklin, Tenn in Nov 1864; taken
to Camp Chase, Ohio where he d. of pneumonia
May 8, 1865.

Levi is buried in Creel Church Cemetery, Barbour Countynty and Preston in the prison cemetery, south
of Camp Chase

Thank you for the information. My family is from John George McDaniel, son of William Walker McDaniel, son of Philip Alfred McDaniel and brother to Nora. The children of Philip Alfred and Jane Elizabeth Walker McDaniel were: William Walker, Sarah Elizabeth, John George, Adeline Marie, Martha and Mary (twins died at birth), Nora Frances, Philip Alfred, Jr., Charles Addison, Indiana Jane, Lucien Gustaves, Edawrd Walter and Henry Wyatt. I believe that Philip Alfred was the son of John and Sara Ira Terry McDaniel. Please contact me if you are interested in more McDaniel information. Thanks again.

Mr. Jones is correct, Preston is buried in City Cemetery, Columbus Ohio, near the Union Prison. He married Francis Horn on Sept. 9, 1860. Levi Jr. was married to Nora Francis McDaniel on Aug. 2, 1866 in Barbour County. I show Nora's father as being Phillip A. McDaniel, nothing on her mother or siblings. I have birth and death dates for her and I also have a lot of information on the Creel family. You can see my website. Most of what I have is posted there. Click on the link below.

Steve

My great, great grandmother Francis Marion Horne married William Walker McDaniel, son of Philip Alfred McDaniel of Henry Co. sometime before 1867. She was first married to Preston H. Creel on Sept. 9, 1860. Is he perhaps a brother to Levi Creel? Did he also serve in Army? I presume he died in the war, but that may not be the case. Thank you for any information.

Deborah