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 650 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST JHSSOURI the entire war. His good wife, however, had visited him after the battle of Stone River, having ridden on horseback one hundred and fifty miles to do so, carrying a young child with her, crossing several rapid streams and fording some, and after meeting the enemy in the road riding straight through the Fed- eral lines. Coming to Dunklin county, ^Missouri, in 1870, Captain McDaniel resided at Clark- ton for six years. ^Moving then to Texas, he was for several years employed as a builder and a painter in Frio eountj-. At a recent reunion in Little Rock, Arkansas, the Cap- tain was there met by his son, C. P. McDaniel. who brought him to Senath. and he is now spending the closing years of his long and useful life with this son. C. P. McDaniel. The wide-awake, busy little town of Senath owes its strong vitality and its great popularity to the enterprise and active spirit of its broad-minded and keen-sighted iDusiness men, who are putting forth practical efforts to aid its growth in every line of industry. Prominent among the number thus employed is C. P. ilcDaniel, the leading furniture dealer and undertaker of this part of Dunklin county. He was born April 30, 1851, in Fulton comity, Ken- tucky, but was taken to Obion count>-, Tennessee, when but a year old, and resided there until 1869, when he made his way to Dunklin county, Mis.souri. which seemed to offer special inducements to a young man of vim and energy, being in the center of a rich and highly productive country. Locating in Clarkton, Mr. McDaniel there followed his trade of a blacksmith for nearly thirty years. Coming from there to Senath in 1897, he was here not only the "Village Blacksmith" for six years, but was also suc- cessfully engaged in the undertaking liusi- ness. Giving up his smithy in 1903, Mr. Mc- Daniel has since built up a substantial trade as a dealer in furniture, having gained an extensive and lucrative patronage in Senath and vicinity, his systematic and upright methods attracting customers from all parts of the county. This business he is carrying on siiccessfully * in connection with under- taking, in both lines being well patronized. Mr. McDaniel has been twice married. He married first, at Union Citj^, Tennessee, Ozella B. Starrett, of Dunklin county, Mis- souri, a daughter of Robert C. Starrett, an early settler of Clarkton. She died at Clark- ton, Missouri, in 1894, after twenty years of happy married life, having four children, namely: Florence E., wife of F. E. Wil- liams, of JIalden, ilissouri ; Edna May, wife of Alexander T. Douglass, of Senath ; Clara Ann, of Senath ; and Arthur S., who is en- gaged in business with his father, Mr, Mc- Daniel married in 1900, in Senath, Hnldah C, Douglass, an aunt of Robert Sidney Doug- lass, editor of this work, and a sister of Rev. Robert Douglass, pastor of the Baptist church at Senath. Mr. JMcDaniel is not identified with any political organization, but takes an active interest in the advancement of local affairs. Fraternally he is a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Baptist church, to which ]Irs. IMcDaniel also belongs, and in which she is and has ever been an active worker, even as a young girl having taken a great interest in the Sunday school work. She attends the Baptist Asso- ciation meetings, in which she is frequently an earnest speaker, A stanch advocate of temperance, Mrs, McDaniel at one time ad- dressed the court on the matter of local op- tion, presenting a remonstrance so effectively that she carried her point without the as- sistance of an attorney. ]Ir, McDaniel is a son of Captain W. I, Mc- Daniel, a venerable and highly esteemed resi- dent of Senath, of whom a brief biographical sketch precedes this. Robert A. Anthony. Among the distinc- tively prominent lawyers and jurists of the state of Missouri, none is more splendidly equipped for the work of his profession than Judge Robert A. Anthony, whose home and business headciuarters are at Fredericktown, ^Missouri. Throughout his career as a dis- tinguished attorney and well fortified coun- selor he has, by reason of unimpeachable conduct and close observance of the unwrit- ten code of professional ethics, gained the ad- miration and respect of his fellow practition- ers, in addition to which he commands a high place in the confidence and esteem of his fel- low citizens. He has served as judge of the Twenty-seventh judicial circuit of Missouri and for four years was prosecuting attorney for Madison county. A native of the Lone Star state. Judge Anthony was born in Kaufman county, Texas, the date of his birth being the 10th of March,