The Home Folks: 200 Years In The Cumberland Settlement" by Frankie Daniel Sellas (also known as Appendix D)

 

The unpublished document The Home Folks: 200 Years In The Cumberland Settlement by Frankie Rebecca Daniel Sellas (1908-2006) was an invaluable source cited frequently in my books about the David Daniel (son Simon) family.  

Much of my research relied on Frankie's stories; however, I occasionally found discrepancies.  The remembered "facts" did not always match the data found in court documents.  Additionally, sources such as 19th-century Goodspeed's History, which she relied on, have been found to lack rigorous scholarship.  The authors simply relied on "old timers" to tell the histories.  Britain Sexton, for example, did not arrive in 1796 as Frankie recorded. (I provide documentation in Appendix B: Families of Matriarchs--Sexton, Tayloe, Weston, and Wynns.  See the bottom of this page. )

Frankie Daniel Sellas was the granddaughter of Simon Daniel (my great-great-great-grandfather) and the daughter of Frank Daniel. I am grateful for her love of our ancestors and her desire to educate her descendants by recording the oral stories passed down to her. She also gathered information without using a computer or the Internet by traveling from Florida to Tennessee and to North Carolina. 

In the mid-1990s, my mother, Dora Daniel, drove to Florida to meet Frankie, who was living in a retirement Center.  She gave Mom a copy of "The Home Folks."

Frankie Daniel Sellas (left) and Dora Daniel

Frankie would be thrilled that her manuscript was read by others fascinated by our ancestral roots.  

A copy of "The Home Folks" can be found at the Stewart County Public Library in Dover, Tennessee, or you can contact me for one. Below are the Foreword, Table of Contents, and the first page of the section on Simon and Rebecca (Sexton) Daniel.

Ordering Copies of Appendices A, B, C, D, E (descriptions below):

To place an order, please use the "Contact" form on the CD Burr home page.  I offer free downloads of the following appendices. If you only need parts of one, let me know the patriarch's name. 

If you desire printed copies, I charge $0.25 per page plus shipping.   I have noted the number of pages next to each name/ place of birth. 

• Appendix A:  Daniel Patriarchs from North Carolina and Tennessee.  For a summary of content, see  Daniel Patriarch Research Notes

• Appendix B: Families of Matriarchs--Sexton (73 pp.), Tayloe (48 pp.), Weston (22 pp.), and Wynns (29 pp.)  The matriarch lineage help complete the stories of our Daniel patriarchs.  

• Appendix C: Unrelated Daniel Families of North Carolina and Tennessee.  Several families with the last name “Daniel” arrived in Stewart County in the early 1800s, but I could find no relationship of the following men to my branch: Benjamin W. Daniel, Woodson Daniel, (a different David Daniel), Barton Daniel, and even a Rebecca Daniel, who lived at a different address than Simon's wife, Rebecca Sexton Daniel.  

• Appendix D:   "The Home Folks: 200 Years in the Cumberland Settlement" by Frankie Daniel Sellas.   This unpublished 40-page document is a pleasure to read, featuring stories passed down to Frankie from her father, Frank Daniel. However, I have found data disputing some of her memories and subjective conclusions.  Contact me to download Sellas's entire document for free or pay $10.00 (25 cents/page) + shipping for printed copies. 

• Appendix E: Standing Rock, Stewart County, TN Deed records for Daniel, Sexton, Tayloe, and Weston, include their neighbors  (44 pp.) 

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