_Hezekiah SELLARDS ______+
| (1732 - 1760)
_Samuel Thomas SELLARDS _______|
| (1773 - 1835) m 1803 |
| |_Jean BREVARD ___________+
| (1734 - 1770)
_Isham DANIEL _______|
| (1799 - 1837) m 1809|
| | _________________________
| | |
| |_Nancy BELCHER ________________|
| (1773 - 1819) m 1803 |
| |_________________________
|
|
|--Isom DANIEL
| (1823 - 1898)
| _Johann Georg BADER _____+
| | (1733 - 1780) m 1759
| _John BORDERS _________________|
| | (1756 - 1815) m 1778 |
| | |_Salome BALTERSPERGERIN _
| | (1734 - 1787) m 1759
|_Mary BORDERS _______|
(1796 - 1898) m 1809|
| _Hezekiah SELLARDS ______+
| | (1732 - 1760)
|_Catherine Elizabeth SELLARDS _|
(1764 - 1833) m 1778 |
|_Jean BREVARD ___________+
(1734 - 1770)
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The following 1897 article appeared in a 1938 issue of the Paintsville Herald.
The following clipping from the old Paintsville Commercial, printed in September, 1897, was found pasted in the back of a Bible which formerly belonged to Henry Caudill. The clipping tells of a family reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isom Daniel, pioneer citizens of Johnson County. henry Caudill was a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Isom Daniel. Mr. Caudill and most of the Daniel family are dead, but they have many descendants in Johnson and adjoining counties who will be interested in the story of social life in this section of forty years ago.
The late Senator Thomas S. Kirk was owner of the Paintsville Commercial and was master of ceremonies for the occasion. Chas A. Kirk who later became the owner of the Commercial was a nephew of Senator Kirk and later acquired the Herald and made it famous throughout the state as kentucky's leading weekly newspaper.
Another distinguished guest at the reunion was Hon. A. J. Auxier, Circuit Judge of the 24th Judicial district, which at that time took in a large slice of Eastern Kentucky counties. The clipping from the Commercial is printed below:
As was announced in the Commercial more than a month ago, a reunion of the family of Isom and Nelly Daniel took place at their home at Sip, Kentucky, Oct 1, 1897, at which were present every one of their children, numbering 13 with most of their families, making in all about 100.
The boys met at the old homestead on Thursday and arranged a table so that the whole family could be seen at the same time. it was placed under the shade of the old apple tree that every child of them had plucked fruit from.
From the day it was agreed upon to have this reunion the good father and mother, respectively 74 and 72, looked forward to the time when they should see the whole family reunited as of yore, with fond anticipation. And when the families began marching in on Friday morning with their carriages loaded down with provisions their hearts beat at an unusual rate with gladness. At eleven thirty o'clock the girls began to arrange the wholesome food, such as pen could not describe, but such as taste alone could relish. When the feast had been prepared several bouquets of the most beautiful flowers were presented by maids of the family and G. V. (Dr.) Daniel, the youngest of the seven sons, announced that dinner was ready. He immediately assisted his father and mother to the head of the table. Daniel Sparks the only living uncle of the mother, who if he should live until Oct 27, 1897, will be 100 years old. The entire family with number of their friends, Hon. A. J. Auxier, T. S. Kirk and wife, Elza Stapleton and wife, Wm Green and wife, Henry Jayne and wife, and a host of others, marched on either side of the table and remained in silence until T. S. Kirk invoked the blessing and gave thanks.
Such a dinner as your scribe never saw before was then ready for eating and one of the most striking features of the dinner when Mamma Daniel was through eating she was seen wending her way through the crowd - God Bless her - picking out the little grandchildren and great-grandchildren and feeding them from her own lovely hand.
When all had dined it was announced that there would be speaking at one-thirty P.M. Hon T. S. Kirk, at the time announced, took the stand and in a beautiful but very touching way took up the history of the family and ere he had closed his speech the entire family seemed to be swallowed up in tears. Then Hon. A. J. Auxier in an eloquent but pointed speech pictured the beauties of the multitude of Daniels that were partaking of this grand family reunion, and at the close of his speech he presented to Papa and Mammy Daniel the presents that were made to them by different members of the family and by the whole family. Among the presents there were a beautiful dress, silk handkerchiefs, suits of underwear, a handsome rocker, etc.
The father and mother expecting something of this kind, were determined not to be outdone, called upon Mr. Kirk to present their presents to the children, uncovered the presents and presented to each one of the girls a beautiful cashmere dress, to each son and son-in-law, daughter and daughter-in-law, a beautiful handkerchief, each costing the same amount of money, showing to them that equal love for them exists in their hearts. At night there were services held at the church (Sugar Grove) at which the old folks bid good bye to their family as a whole and such a service was hardly ever held in the old church as had often been done by them before.
The father and mother urged their children, those that were not, to become Christians, and meet them in the Great Beyond. Mr. Daniel had been a consistent member of the church since 1841, and Mrs. Daniel since 1844. They were married May 5, 1842.