George Turner Daniels 1840

 The following is information I have collected for My Great Grand Uncle George Turner Daniels. Firstly I was able to find his birth record and purchased a copy from England. I then found his burial record, and sent away to Crown Hill Cemetery for the information they had, but it did not identify him as my George Daniels. Finally I was able to find his death record on Ancestry and it identified his parents as John Daniels and Jane Wootton, so that sealed the deal. I was then able to compile the other records that I found for him. I received this picture from David Edmonds to whom I am grateful.

George Turner Daniels was the eldest child of John Daniels and Jane Daniels (Wootton). Born May 30, 1840 in Corsham, Wiltshire, England. From the time he is one year old in the 1841 census, until 1863 and his enlistment in the union army I do not have any records for him, although the 1900 US census does state that he immigrated in 1860.

When his parents died he was 14 years old and I do not have any information of his journey until he enlisted. He did enlist to fight in the civil war and there is a record for a George T Daniels that does match the company and regiment that is on his military pension file. He was injured in the war, which is confirmed in the 1880 census.

George married Esmerelda Ann Fenton on November 13, 1864, in Muskingum, Ohio. They never had any children, although in the 1900 census there is a listing for an adopted son James Vanblaragam, 35 years of age. He is never mentioned any other time so I am not sure if that is a mistake and he was just a boarder there.

According to the Indianapolis city directories, George was living there in 1870. There are gaps, such as between 1889 and 1895, where he is not listed. There is a letter to his brother Frederic from Mobile Alabama during this time and he states he had been living there a while. In most years he is listed working as a machinist.

George died January 17, 1925 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis