Extracted from The Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, TX)
Wednesday, February 3, 1965

Mrs. James McDaniel

Funeral services for Mrs. James J. (Jessie Elvira) McDaniel, 87, of 811 Austin Ave., Brownwood, are pending at Davis-Morris Funeral Home.

Mrs. McDaniel died at 6:30 a.m. today in her home.

She was born Dec. 20, 1877, in Angelina County and had lived most of her life in Brown County most of her life. She married James J. McDaniel in 1910 [sic 1909] at Winchell. He died in 1935. She was a member of First Methodist church.

Survivors are two sons, Frank C. McDaniel of Dalhart and J. H. McDaniel Jr. of Hobbs, N. M.; three daughters, Mrs. Dollie Long, Mrs. Frances Porche and Mrs. Vesta Harris, all of Brownwood; two brothers, Frank P. Abney, of Brownwood and Paul C. Abney of Fort Worth; four sisters, Mrs. Frankie McCarty of Houston, Mrs. Lena Wallace of San Angelo, Mrs. Tellie Turney of Austin and Mrs. Margaret Burns of Brownwood; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.