Walter F. Daniel Collection, 1903-1932

The Walter F Daniel Collection contains personal documents and ephemera of Walter F. Daniel (1870-1947) of Stewart County.  He was the son of Minerva Ann Bogard (1849/1922) and Richard D. Daniel (c. 1846), who married in Stewart County in 1868.  After Mr. Daniel’s death, Minerva married T. S. Norden in Stewart County in 1876.
 
Walter Franklin Daniel was born in Stewart County in 1870.  In 1912 he married Jennie Lee Rogers.  They were the parents of Kate Maye Daniel (1913) who married Roger Williams without issue, and Frances Ann Daniel (1923) who married John S. Lucas, with one daughter, the donor.

The collection is arranged in 1 archival box.
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CONTAINER LIST
 
Deeds / Land Records

1. plat of a 257-acre tract
2. plat of a 270 ¾-acre tract
3. November 20, 1903 deed from Ed R. Bogard and wife Zeula D. Bogard to M. A. Norden, their ½ interest in a 118-acre tract in District 3 known as the Silas Stamper place, formerly owned by E. T. Bogard; recorded in Deed Book 53, p. 23.
4. October 25, 1907 deed from M. E. Barnett (wife of J. A. Barnett deceased), daughter Lula May Martin, son William Edwin Barnett, son Festus Cornealus Barnett and son Leonard Albertus Barnett to Nora Weaver, for a 100-acre tract in District 3; recorded in Deed Book 56, p. 383.
5. April 14, 1911 deed from W. B. Hall and wife Alma Hall to W. F. Daniel, part of the Logan Keatts farm in District 3, consisting of 2 ½ acres; recorded in Deed Book 65, p. 92.
6. November 4, 1911 unrecorded deed from D. D. Lowe & wife Nelie to D. C. Edwards, for a 28 ½-acre tract in District 3, being their allotment in the lands of M. G. Taylor.
7. November 13, 1911 deed from D. D. Lowe & wife Nelie to D. C. Edwards, for their 1/5 interest in the 140-acre M. G. Taylor homestead tract, District 3; recorded in Deed Book 65, p. 141.

 
Estate of Mrs. Minerva A. Norden

1. check to Big Rock Bank for $100 by W. F. Daniel, administrator, dated August 21, 1926.
2. check to Big Rock Bank for $277.50 by W. F. Daniel, administrator, dated February 21, 1927.
3. unsigned appeal bond, sent by attorney S. C. Lewis to W. F. Daniel, and correspondence dated May 21, 1927.
4. cover letter from attorney W. C. Howell to W. F. Daniel, dated November 4, 1927, mentioning a deed to Daniel (not present in the collection) that had been executed in the division of his mother’s estate.
5. letter from White & Clark, attorneys at law of Hopkinsville, Ky., to Walter Daniel, instructing him to send an affidavit stating his relationship to R. S. Wootton, who mentioned Daniel in his will; dated March 5, 1928.

 
Insurance

1. The Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited, of London England, loan correspondence, 1927.
2. Hartford Fire Insurance Company receipt, 1927.
3. Union Central Life Insurance Co., receipts and correspondence, 1929-1932
4. brochure for The Health Test from Union Central Life Insurance Co., Cincinnati, OH, undated.

 
Miscellaneous

1. flyer for DeWitt’s Compound Iron Tonic Pills, undated.
2. note and deed of trust from C. N. Weaver & Nora Weaver to Ethleen Taylor, May 29, 1917.
3. bill of cost from Charles Cherry, Stewart Circuit Court Clerk, July 21, 1919.
4. real estate mortgage from C. N. Weaver & Nora Weaver to I. J. Taylor, to secure a $830 note, July 30, 1920.

 
Notes by W. F. Daniel

1. miscellaneous notes and Deeds of Trust signed by W. F. Daniel, 1926-1929:
   • W. E. Barnett
   • Fox Chemical Co.
   • First National Bank of Clarksville
   • Big Rock Bank
   • First Trust & Savings Bank
   • Union Central Life Insurance Company

 
Notes / Deeds of Trust to W. F. Daniel

1. miscellaneous notes and/or Deeds of Trust to W. F. Daniel:
   • Tom Broadie, April 30, 1921; August 26, 1922; August 16, 1924; July 27, 1927
   • Eddie Cayce, April 22, 1926
   • J. W. Clinard, April 14, 1914
   • Walter Dinkins, August 10, 1925
   • J. L. Guinn, May 14, 1923
   • O. E. Hysmith, December 21, 1915
   • Jim Rogers, November 16, 1926; October 3, 1928
   • Wesley Rogers & Willie Rogers, February 7, 1924
   • Ed Williams, June 24, 1919; June 27, 1922; August 20, 1922; October 9, 1922

 
Receipts

1. 1924 Stewart County tax receipt to Mrs. M. A. Norden for 658 acres in District 3, valued at $12,000.
2. 1924 Stewart County tax receipt to W. F. Daniel for 50 acres in District 3, valued at $534.
3. Big Rock Bank deposit receipts, 1923, 1927, 1928.
4. Franklin Street Warehouse receipt for tobacco, April 23, 1928.
5. Southern Trust Company receipts for insurance(?), 1928-1929.
6. various merchant receipts, 1920s-1930s.