Elizabeth A. McDaniel

MCDANIEL, FENTON, HOUSEMAN, HAYMAKER

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 10/31/2016 at 15:13:59

Monday February 16, 1903 The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth A. McDaniel occurred Sunday at 12:50 at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Blanche Houseman, 922 North Seventeenth street, where she had been visiting. Mrs. McDaniel had not been feeling well, though she had not been ill, and her death was sudden, dropsy of the heart being assigned as the cause. She made her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fenton, 320 Eighth avenue.
The decedent was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 21, 1826, and came west in 1856. Her husband, S.S. McDaniel, had come west the year before to look up a location and settled in Anamosa. He was a brick mason by trade and laid the brick in most of the old buildings in Anamosa. He was prominent in the circles of Odd Fellowship and was the founder of the two lodges of the order in Anamosa. The McDaniel encampment in that city was named after him. Mr. McDaniel died May 27, 1870. They had nine children, five of whom survive--Mrs. Sarah Haymaker of Aurora, Mo., Gus McDaniel of Anamosa, W.S. McDaniel of New York City, A.S. McDaniel of Walla Walla, Wash., and Mrs. Eliza Fenton of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. McDaniel was a member of the Baptist church at Anamosa, where she had lived during all the years after coming to Iowa until the death of her husband, and the remains will be taken there for burial. She was a splendid type of the pioneer woman, possessing all the noble attributes of her sex, and this notice of her death will be read with sincere sorrow and regret by all who knew her.