Daniel
Heiskell
Daniel Heiskell was born 7 March 1799 near Winchester,
Frederick County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth
(Betsy) McBride at Greeneville, TN on 4 March 1823. They
had seven children. He died at at Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee
on 22 July 1875. Daniel was a local judge and a tanner. He was
also a slave
owner.
Daniel and Elizabeth had seven
children.
1. William McBride Heiskell,
born 1824. Married Virginia Netherland. They had 11 children.
2. Eliza Adaline McBride Heiskell
married Nathaniel P. Hight in 1851.
3. Luther M. Heiskell married
Ellen Wright in 1853. They had 7 children.
4. Hugh Brown Heiskell, born
1831, and died 13 November 1904. He married Rhoda Farmer, and
they had 10 children.
5. Sara Catherine Heiskell
was born in 1834. She married John Patterson, also born 1834.
They had 10 children, and moved to Missouri.
6. Martha Isabella Heiskell,
born 1836. She married N. W. Haun, a member of the firm Haun and
Steakley, merchants of Sweetwater.
7. Betsy Ramsey Heiskell married
R. F. Scruggs, one of the sons of Rev. John Scruggs.
Daniel Heiskell married his
second wife, Mary Wallace Montgomery,
on 13 March 1844 in Monroe County. They had three children:
1. James Montgomery Heiskell,
born Jan. 30, 1845, died Mar. 26, 1898. He is buried in West
View Cemetery
Sweetwater (Monroe County), Tenn. He married Laura E. Jones, and
had three children. The 1880 census shows that his mother was
living with his family at the time. Two children are named: Harry
S. Heiskell (aged 4) and Edgar Heiskell (aged 2).
2. Margaret Caroline Heiskell
married Dr. Abijah D. Scruggs in 1867. They had 5 children
3. Dorcas Ann Heiskell1850-1854.
Athens Post on 20 january 1854 records: Heiskell, Dorcas
Ann died at Sweetwater of scarlet fever. Dorcan Ann youngest daughter
of Daniel and Mary w. Heiskell, aged 3 years and 9 months.
Daniel Heiskell was among
the earliest settlers of the western part of the newly established
Monroe County [founded 1819]. He settled near Sweetwater, about
45 miles southwest of Knoxville, after moving from Knox County.
Source: Tennessee Cousins: a history
of Tennessee People by Worth S. Ray (Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co., 1984) p. 352 ; 441.
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