Martha Saphronia (Eller) Daniels (1872 - 1954)

Born 18 Apr 1872 in Buncombe County, NC

Wife of Calvin Jackson Daniels — married 16 Jan 1891 in Buncombe County, NC

Died 6 Jun 1954 at age 82 in Buncombe County, NC

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Biography

Martha Saphronia "Nannie" Eller was a daughter of Presley Eller and Leaketh Patterson.

She married Calvin Jackson Daniels in 1891 on 16 January. They lived in the Flat Creek community of north Buncombe County and there raised their large family of at least nine children (by 1920): Roy Daniels, 27; Hardy Daniels, 23; Virgil Daniels, 21; Margaret Daniels, 18; Lula Daniels, 16; Dewey Daniels, 14; Emogene Daniels, 12; Pansy Daniels, 10; and Alfred Daniels, 7. Jack Daniels was farming.

When the 1940 census was taken on April 23, Nannie was the widowed head of household, age 69, at the family home in Flat Creek. Others there with her were daughter Pansy, 28; son Afred, 26; grandaughter Margaret Rice, 11; and grandaughter Selby Rice, 10. Alfred was employed as a book keeper at a retail auto parts store, with an income of $960 during the previous calendar year.

Sources

• NC Death Certificate, Nannie Martha Daniels, 1954, via Ancestry.com;

US federal census, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, Buncombe County, NC, via Ancestry.com.

Year: 1940; Census Place: Flat Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: m-t0627-02879; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 11-66; Source Information Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.