Sarah J.
Elmore King Daniels' Family
Sarah
was born 1840-1941 in Illinois.
Sarah Elmore married Thomas King
February 19, 1869 in Franklin Co., Illinois
(vol.3/pg.220)
Sarah J. King married L.L.
Daniels May 16, 1866 in Franklin Co., Illinois
(vol. 3/pg.43).
The 1870 Perry Co. Census lists the
household of L.L. Daniels (age 50, born New
York):
Sarah, age 29, born Illinois, keeping
house
John, age 9, born Illinois (aka John
King)
Linus, age 3, born Illinois
Alice, age 2, born Illinois
Ludlow, age 4 months, born March1870,
Illinois
Between
1870 and 1877, the Daniels family moved to
Sherman, where Linus Ludlow
is a carriage maker. The 1876-1877
Sherman City directory lists
John King as an apprentice printer at The
Patriot, living in the
household of his mother & step-father.
Again
in
the 1880 Sherman census the Daniels family is
listed living on West
Houston St. Several of the sons chose
the newspaper business as
their occupation.
After the father died in 1885 Sarah moved with
her children to Ft. Worth.
The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 11, 1890
"Typography
artist"
refers to one who is skilled in arranging type
to make the
written language readable and appealing.
John was buried in the
Daniels family plot located in the "old
cemetery" section of West Hill
Cemetery, Sherman, along with his mother
Sarah K. Daniels died in 1893. The
notice in The
Sunday Gazetteer reads:
"Mrs.
Daniels, mother to Lee Daniels, the compositor
well known in newspaper
circles in Denison, died last week in Ft.
Worth. Sherman has been the
old family homestead for many years and the
body was shipped to that
city for interment." (The Sunday
Gazetteer, February 12, 1893, pg.4)
Ludlow
Lee
Daniels lived most of his life in Ft. Worth
and Dallas but got his
training in the printing trade in Denison.
He spent most of his
life working for the Dallas Morning News,
which published a newsworthy
obituary for him in 1931.
Biography Index
Susan Hawkins
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