Notes for Louisa BELCHER Daniels p.93.
Notes for Peter ADKINS Daniels p.93. Peter was a farmer by occupation and a preacher in the Old
Regular Baptist (now Primitive Baptist) Church. He was instrumental in
establishing the present day Luisa Church (possibly named in honour of his
wife, Louisa) which is now located on 'Rocky Road' at Millard, Kentucky.
He donated the land on which the original church house was built and, in
all probability, did a great deal of the work on the building as well. The
original church building was constructed out of logs with a fireplace in
one end of the building. At the time Peter sold his land on Biggs Branch
at Millard, where the church house was located, he excepted out of the
deed the church building and the lot and six feet around the lot, as long
as the church was active. [55]
Peter was somewhat of a traveler for those days and times. He moved to the
State of Washington for a time and from there to the State of Texas, which
he did not like. He returned to Kentucky and settled in Letcher County,
where he purchased a large farm on Rockhouse Creek on the Cumberland
river. He also obtained land grants, 50 acres on Gap Branch on 1 March
1889 and another one for 50 acres on the same creek on 18 January 1890. [55]
The fact that Peter and Louisa lived in Letcher County was largely
responsible for his sister, Elizabeth Daniels, and her family moving to
Letcher County around the year 1890. Elizabeth and her family moved to
Letcher County 4-5 years after she separated from her husband, Samuel
Daniels. She lived on her brother Peter's farm until she bought her own
small farm about 1898. My father, Peter Daniels, said that he worked many
days on the farm of Peter when he was a young boy growing up. [55]
When they grew a little older, Peter and Louisa returned to Millard, Pike
County, Kentucky, giving his farm in Letcher County to some of his
children. In the 1910 Pike County census, Peter and Louisa were living
with one of their sons, Dr Moses Adkins. [55]
Peter was a very handsome man as he appears in photographs. He had long
white hair, a van Dyke type of beard and very intellegent and loving eyes.
He was a wealthy man for his day and time but was also very humble and a
God-fearing man. He died in the year 1916 and was buried on a point
directly behind the old homestead at Winright, Kentucky. His wife, still
living at that time, had him taken up and moved into the Adkins cemetery,
a few yards away, because he was buried close to a mining operation and
she felt that he would not like to be left there. [55]
Peter was 82 years old [81 actually] at the time of his death. [55]
Family notes for Louisa BELCHER and Peter ADKINS Daniels p.93. Peter and Louisa are both buried in the Adkins Cemetery at Winright, Kentucky. Neither of these people have headstones or permanent markers at this time [1987]. [55]
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