Catherine Elizabeth McDAID

  General Notes:

1831 BIRTH of Catherine Elizabeth McDaid

1840 CENSUS (probably) Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Findley Township (household of Michael "McDade")

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Catherine," age 20, "Teacher," is in the household of her parents, "Michael, age 43, "Farmer," and hiswife, "Jennet," age 45) ("McDade" in some census indexes)

1850s MARRIAGE of Catherine Elizabeth McDaid and Samuel Danley

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Samuel," age 42, "Stock Dealer") (wife "Catharine," age 30)

1864 DEATH of husband, Samuel Danley, at approximately 46 years of age

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Catherine E.," age 39, "Keeping house," with 4 children)

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Cathrine," age is blurred but should have been 49, "Keeping house," with 3 children in her household, plus Janetta McDaid, age 78, "Retired," who was Catherine McDaid Danley's mother) (Catherine's age is misinterpreted as 59 in some census indexes)

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Katherine," age 69, widow, born "March, 1831" is "Mother" in the household of "Wilson" Danley, age 41, and his wife Hannah)

1910 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Catherine E.," age 79, widow, is "Sister" in the household of "Margaret E. Genn") (Instead of Danley, Catherine's surname has been transcribed "Dowley" for some census indexes)

1917 DEATH, Catherine (McDaid) Danley, at 85 years 11 months 18 days




OBITUARY (Catherine) from an undocumented 1917 newspaper:


Mrs. Catherine Danley

Catherine Elizabeth McDaid, widow of the late Samuel Danley, passed away at her home in Burnsville at two o'clock Monday afternoon, March 5, 1917, from a general decline, ten days short of her 86th year.

The funeral service was held at ten o'clock Wednesday forenoon, conducted by Rev. Samuel Davis, pastor of Windy Gap church. Interment was in West Finley cemetery.

The deceased was a native of East Finley township, daughter of Michael McDaid. Possessed of a retentive memory and an observing nature, she made good use of the training secured in the three-months term in the log school house of her girlhood days. She fitted herself for teaching and taught a number of terms in Morris, Richhill, East and West Finley townships, very successfully.

For sixty years she was a member of Wheeling Hill (Dogwood Grove) United Presbyterian church, and was possessed of many Christian virtues.

She married Samuel Danley, whose occupation was that of stock dealer. After his death, about 53 years ago, she conducted that business a number of years, in the southern part of the county. Most of her life was spent in West Finley township. Since leaving the Danley farm at Good Intent, she has made her home at Burnsville.

She leaves two sons, and one daughter: A. W. Danley, George H. Danley, and Mrs. L. W. Fields, all of West Finley. Mrs. Danley had an extensive acquaintance in this section. She took a deep interest in public affairs and was progressive in her convictions. For a number of years she had been an ardent advocate of suffrage for women.

She was a forceful speaker and was always active in church and community meetings until in her later years when her advanced age made it necessary for her to lead a more retired life.



Source: Helen Barnhart Morris Scrapbook, page 156

Our Famil Histories web site by Helen Durbin and Susi Pentico
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Catherine married Samuel DANLEY before 1854 in Pennsylvania. (Samuel DANLEY was born in 1818 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, died about 1864 in Burnsville, Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in West Finley Cemetery, West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)