NAME: McDaniel, James DATA: See William Worrell Vass' folder. Vass' 2nd wife was James McDaniel's daughter. 22 D 1803 NAME McDaniel, James In ct:25 D 1869 1st. Ancostry Marrie d Smith. b. ncar Fayetteville, 22 D 1803. b. d. Ancestry H.F.C . 1837-37; A.M . 1851; D.D. Obit. Hary T. 28 Jl 1c69; 1868. 4 Ag 1869. Record Bapt. 4th $.ab. F 1827 into Cape Fear B/C; Clerk of Cape Fear B/C for 14 years. One of org. of Fayetteville B/C, 25 N 1837; pastor at Fayetteville for 32 years; pastor at ·~lmington for 6 years; a founder and pres . of B. s . c . for 18 years. see Cedar Creek Assn. Hin. , 1876; Purifoy; Cathcart, 768; N.C . Bapt . Almanac, 1882 & 1885; BR . 2 F 1870; File No. Obit. of child, 21 Hr. 18~ . (Over) JAMES McDANIEL James McDaniel, D. D., was a native of C~mberland County; the founder and for thirty years the pastor of the Fayetteville Baptist Church, and for nineteen years the President of that Convention he helped to form. N. C. BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION ANNUAL, 1880, p. 56 According to the records of Cape Fear Baptist Church, Cumberland Co., NC, volume I, James McDaniel was ordained, January 28, 1828. CRmf 499 ---~~~~~======~~============~~=~ _.- NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST ALMANAC. f g~'f The Judges who come ~o Columbus county to hold court, have for many years c •> ml'limented the people of our county for their honesty and law abiding pro­ di' ties. How far this is due to the influence of Eld~r Dennis Lennon, Gorl tnly1 knows. It is certain that I never knew one of his posterity to be ar­ r.>i;::ned before a court of justice for any misdemeanor. There are in ~ur county un.'r thirty Baptist churches. Ilow many of these churches sprang mto extst­ ence as a result of the earnest labors of this truly great a nd good man, etermty ~:one c:m tell. Let his numerous posterity and many other; imitate his godly e:umple.It is expected of such a man to d1e. a tnumphant. death. Just t\\·o weeks before the unday when he lay a corpse, he prenched at Antioch church. in Robeson county, from the text, "This, my joy, therdore, is fulfilled." L ong hefort! death came he ha-d a great dread of the monster; but when it came it "as .1 welcome messeng<:r. There was one hymn "hich he never had called fo~ to be sung; but now he called upon his daughter Elizabeth, who was one ot :he sweet sin&ers of Israel, to sing for him, "Jerusalem, my happy home," &c. Then he seemed to see a convoy of angels coming to bear his redeemed spirit home, anci ~emarked to some one by his bedsid<!, z SS' 9 59 3 39 10 ..p "Oh ye heavenly hosts, """ -1 2.j II 2] Don't you hear them sing?" <> .2!_ 3 5 9 tY IJ Thus lived and died one of the world's noblemen. His name was not known - H, h~~rs ami_29 ;~;;nfes~ very extensively outside of his county. He didn't seek for worldly honor, but \ .. rtllll,l <="" mr:>rn ~ ... ~ _ in that l.'reat day when God sen<b his angels to ID"-ke up his jewels, the name of Dennis Lennon will sh ine as the stars forever and ever. C. L \~aD I;;, C) rJ' ~ ~~ I ~ si . P. t•rop~ rir ~ ~~ ~ 7 3..; . 2 57 1 A. D ......, -'=> 3 29 -1 2 ,. 2 . .• • : 7 9 27 1 5 6 RE'f. JAM.ES McO.L~IEL, D. D., ~ .> r!i,ro 28/6 8 --:---l_,;..:vl:._' --±_:2 li 3 I 7 I Was born near the oid cla>sic town of Fayetteville, in Cumberland coonty, h 11 l1ours nnd ~-­ December 22, 180,3, and died at his home, near the place of his birth, lt;r J M-, . - Dc~em­ I ~I.!_I.'_J_U~~.1 bcr 25, r869. H e was the F, 7- · •:,. I >ets./ o 3_3 7 ~ ddest of five brothers, issue of his mother's second cllr.~ Lw·· , 23- ., -4 marriage, and if it be the mother that makes the man, that mother must h:!ve IiS'J, ::'3. 8 ..tE 9 6 ~ ~6 been a marvelously endowed womnn. erhl ~ / 9 48 / _,ol 9 .>6 His fath<:r was a thrifty, well-to-do farmer, owning plenty o£ Janus, and A. D · I -~•., Io 151 4 3 2-!r· rrIO 27rS , houses, and sertunts, to entitle him to the aptJellation, "Indep.mcl1mt," and - I "" 8 . J yet, believing that a practical knowledge of manual labor to b.:- a necessary Fair -.,, Ir•JO ~r. 5 -1 morn_ / ' • ;,v s 51 0 s acqui;ition for boys, he required all !lis to acquaint themselve!; with that useful 1! lJOnrs nnrl 14- m.uul~ art. .j<\1 • ~ . I think he was about five fe et, eight or nine inches in height,. and weighc.d · •• mor n-~ 6 3g I 00 about one hundred and sixty or sixty-five pounds, and with no-tendency to cor­ 0 r -~ 0 I \ IJ ••• 2 7 zgl I sr pulenLy. He carried hardly a pennyweight of surplus flesh. H e was so ne:uly ;, ~·n ' .~ o sols I2 2 .JS bultless in symmetry and general corporeal make-up, that it would have been . I D. .;..: l 3 r 8 5<113 .JO diffcult for any one, knowing him however well, to have suggested an improve- T> - ~ ~~ z rz 9 -17 -1 "6 ment. t1'! I z 59 ! IO 3-1 5 ~i He was remarkable as orte of the mo:;t unpretendingr modest men I ever Ji< I 3 381tr 21 6 T_; ~new, and seemed to desire to conceal, rather han to make known, such phys- 111 f l -hor rrs- nnu.-,- 4 minu!t>s---­ ' teal faculties as are gen~rally the b a.< t of yourog n· en posse>sing them in any , "·I )< riJes- rnorr. j 6 • remarkable degree, and it was by the merest chance thnt I learned something ·'· .~ u; sr cf their astonishing power, 'lS .;hown in one of his daring boyish exploits of na,1 U. 7 2~ o s1 i 34 retaliation, a recital of which in this place and connection might appc.u irrele­ 7 59 0 53, 9 s \ant, though very amusing and en,irely justifiable, supposing him to have known 8 3-1 I 3EI 8 5 I ab.;olutdy hi,; great strength and skill. That he was a rnental prodig}, no one 9 i 2 23 9 29 :j knowing him well could entertain a moment'; doubt. ----'::I 9 3I ~~J I wish I could present him to the mint!'> eye, in such life-like portmiture ~s nn11• Tt r a H omer, a ~f acau by, a Dtcken ·, or as nuny others of the great artists could rtw ~lt .· :e;r;~ rf!rn ar:d en 1-ts aurl ll!.rn 1 er~ have dune, had they known h1n1 as he was, but unfortunately for the 'Uiislz, I ========= 'I NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST ALMANAC. we no power to imitate their superior ,kill. His phrenological cast was such ·• 10 indicate in a conspicuous degree, those higher mental qualitie.> which relate . , the harmony of intellectual and spiritual development, and if he had a real .:em ish of character, it may have been revealed in the zeal and power he some­ times displayed in defence of his maturdy consiJered conclusions. It is not too much to say of him, that his best powers were directed, exercised and governed b,· his reason, h i ~ convictions and his faith, tA.at he was a most honorable excep­ D. H. M. uon to the old laconic aphorism, '.a mau convinced against his will, is of the I] 8 33 a. m. >3me opinion still." 25 o II . m. Dr. ~!cDaniel receiver! such early educational helps as were obtainable in and about Fayetteville, his principal studies being English, Latin, Greek, Mathe­ ru3t ics and astronomy, and it is fair te presume that he signally excelled in all. He was mainly the architect of his own scholarly attainments and proficiency, o.; I know him to have been a close and careful student of the languages named, s also of his Bible and its suhlime precepts, his invariable rule being, when at home, to rise with the early dawn and -apply himself {O study and m editation for several hours before family worship and breakfast. lie was a very model of temperance in its best sense, in his diet as in all ·.hing> else, he was no gormand, he diu not live to eat, but ate to live and keep t.o<ly and mind in their best condition. If I am correctly inf01med, he was never eriously sick but once before that sickness which terminated h is earthly life. and I have reason to believe that he experienced but little Teal physical suffering in that hst sickness, except at in tervals, that apart from his natural anxieties and htart-aches, it was mainly a sweet fall ing to sleep in !"he gracious arms of his 2 3T 2 lm in;; Saviour. I 3 40 He was about twenty--eight when I first knew him. His face, as ever after, 2 I 4 4') ""'cleanly shaven, and looked 'mooth and tender as a woman's, somewhat :1orid when his features were at rest, and notably so when speaking upon a sub­ ject of absorbing interest.