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Written in 1908 by G.T. Peel,son of George Washington Peel and Jane Eliza/Elizabeth McDaniel(daughter of Benjamin McDaniel b. 1806)
Born in Texas in 1859. My father and his uncle came to Texas in 1855. My mother came to Texas in 1855 from Arkansas with her father, (Benjamin McDaniel), and all settled in Bell County. My father, George Peel, and mother, Jane McDaniel, were married in 1855. They moved to Tarrant County, I was born in 1859 in or near Grand Prairie, where he lived till 1866, when the soldiers were stationed at Fort Worth, which would make me an old-timer.
My father went to the army from Fort Worth, but I don’t remember his regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Mansfield, La., and died at the hospital. We never got to see him any more. Mother married again in 1866 to,Iames Glass, and we moved to Coleman County the same year. Grandpa (Benjamin McDaniel)had taken our cattle on out there. When we got there the Indians were so bad that we moved to Austin in 1869, and settled there long before the first railroad came to Austin. We settled on Barton Creek about fifteen miles from Austin, and furnished crossties to build the road with. Mother’s health got so bad there we sold out and went to Uvalde in 1875 and lived there until 1879, then we moved to San Angelo. My stepfather, James Glass, lived at San Angelo after the flood in 1882. My mother died in El Paso in 1902. She was 61 years old. My grandfather (Benjamin McDaniel) died in Uvalde town at the age of 83. My mother had nine children, four boys and five girls.
I have been married twenty-six years. We have seven children living and three dead. I will soon be 50 years old. My wife is 45. Her maiden name was Sarah Bradley, the daughter of Daniel Bradley of Robertson County. His father came here in Austin’s colony. Daniel Bradley fought in the Mexican War, and was in the siege at the old church in San Antonio and was in the battle of San Jacinto when Santa Anna was captured. If any of our old friends or relatives see this we would like to hear from them.
I may write again and tell about some of our Indian troubles in Brown County!~ We take The News and couldn’t do without it!.
- G. T. Peel, Haskell, Tex.