Lola Balma (Balmer) White
Born: 25 Nov 1879 Maud Bowie Co TX 
Died: 14 Nov 1964 Alto Cherokee Co TX
Buried: Alto City Cemetery Cherokee Co TX

Known Children: 1 - Lesse Lou McDaniel Mounce

Married: 8 Jun 1902 Bowie Co TX
Dr Irvin Hollis McDaniel
(Son of Joel Robert & Rebecca (Pinson) McDaniel)
Born: 4 Oct 1868 Laurens Co SC 
(lived in Laurens Co SC until 1900 then Bowie Co TX)  
Died: 15 May 1944 Alto Cherokee Co TX
Buried: Alto City Cemetery Cherokee Co TX

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Cemetery where Dr. Irvin and Lola White are buried:

Listed on the Cemetery Listing for Alto City Cemetery:

McDaniel, Dr. I. H. 10-04-1868 d.  05-15-1944 
McDaniel, Lola B.   11-25-1879 d. 11-14-1964

Notes: 
They are the only McDaniel's buried at Alto Cemetery.
Did not find Lessie buried here, she was said to have
married a Dick Mounce, there were several of an 
older generation, maybe relatives to her husband.

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Notes of Interest: 

Dr. I. H. McDaniel was the Physician that signed Thomas Monroe White's 
Death Certificate in 1923, his wife's father. 

Rev. Lola B [White] McDaniel was listed as a Reverend at her brother 
Newton J White's funeral following his accident, in 1964. 
 

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Irvin and Lola's unclaimed original marriage Certificate:

Texarkana Genealogy Society has an Unclaimed Marriage Certificate for this couple,
I had ordered the copy, as it had gone unclaimed for a very long time.... (Nov 2002):

McDaniel, I. H. -------- White, Lola ------------------- 1902

"""UPDATE on this Marriage Certificate:
After writing the Genealogical Society, they informed me 
that the following person bought the Certificate:

Carmen McDaniel Forbes, 
10702 Meadow Lake Lane, 
Houston, Texas 77042-2815.

I wrote a letter to Carmen, asking if she could provide information
on Irvin & Lola, (Dec 2002).

Carmen replied that she had taken this Marriage Record to her Family
Reunion and placed it out for the Cousins, and the record was taken 
by one of the family.  I have since ordered and received a copy of the
License, from the Bowie County TX Clerk. 

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Bowie Co marriages had:

WHITE, LOLA 8 Jun 1902 Bowie co to MCDANIEL J. H

Marriage Record From Bowie County Clerk:

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1910 Williamson Co TX Census Page 254
ED date: April 22, 1920 - ED Dist. #116, Sheet #9

164-167
Irvin H. McDaniel  Head M W 41 M 8 SC SC  SC English Physician General Practice
Lola B.                    Wife  F  W 28 M 8 TX SC VA English None
Lessie L.                  Dau  F  W 05  S     TX SC TX             None

Note:
Cousin Marlene Walker located
the 1910 Census for Irvin and Lola. 

1930 Houston Co TX Census Prec #4 Sheet 8a Page 202
                ED Dist 113-15 ED Date: 12 Apr 1930 
                by Alvin A Bynum - Highway 19. (Northwest Part- 4 J-PCT)
149 - 150
McDaniel Irvin H head M W 61 M 33 SC SC SC
Lola B                   wife  F  W 50 M 22 TX TX TX
Lessie L                 dau  F  W 25  S       TX SC TX

1940 Cherokee Co TX Census Prec #2 Sheet 7b Page 207
                ED Dist 37-9 ED Date: 16 Apr 1940 
                by W Watters Singleton
146-146
McDaniel, Dr I H head M W 71 M no c5 80 TX  Doctor
McDaniel, Lola    wife   F  W 60 M no c1 40 TX 

147-147
Mounce, Clarence R head M W 36 M no h3 20 TX  Farmer
Mounce, Lessie Lou  wife  F  W 36 M no h3 60 TX

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The History of Maud United Methodist Church 1874-1974
Written by: Joe V. Clouse, Pastor and F. E. Cooley

GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM:

Mattie Carrie White, Lessie Lou McDaniel, Balma White, Emma Lee White, Irene White.

Note:  Lou McDaniel is Lola & Dr Irvin's daughter.

***Family, Children and Spouses were all named in a book, "The History of Maud United Medthodist Church". This book is available at the New Boston TX Library.

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1904 Bowie Co TX Poll Tax:
BOWIE COUNTY POLL TAX LIST - 1904
PRECINCT NO. 20 (Sand Hill)
                                                   YR LIVED YRS LIVED
NAME                   AGE RACE IN TEXAS BOWIE CO OCCUPATION
J. [I] H. McDaniel  36        W           4 yrs          4 yrs          Physician

Note:
The record had J. H. but am sure this 
was I. H. McDaniel, common mistake.

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ALTO Cherokee County Texas 

     Alto, also known as Branchtown, is an incorporated community at the junction of U.S. Highway 69, State highways 21 and 249, and Farm roads 752 and 1911, eleven miles south of Rusk in southern Cherokee County. The settlement was founded around 1849 by Robert F. Mitchell on land acquired in a lawsuit with John Durst. The site was once a part of an extensive grant to Nacogdoches merchants William Barr and Samuel Davenport. A local post office opened in 1850 under the name Branchtown. In 1852 the town was renamed Alto ("high"), reportedly at the suggestion of Henry Berryman, because of its location at the highest point between the Angelina and Neches rivers. Because it was situated on the Old San Antonio Road, the settlement quickly developed into a commercial center and stopping point for travelers. Mitchell opened a store in 1851, and by the eve of the Civil War Alto had several stores, a blacksmith and livery shop, a saloon, a cotton gin, and a school for girls. After the construction of the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad through the town in the mid-1880s, Alto drew residents and businesses from many nearby communities. By 1885 the town had four gristmill-cotton gin combinations, a sawmill, a church, a district school, a saloon, several general stores, and a population of 600. A newspaper, the Alto News, was begun in 1893; under the name Alto Herald it continued to be published in the early 1990s. A bank was established in Alto in 1903, and in 1909 the town was incorporated.

     Alto continued to prosper. In 1929 it reported a peak population of 1,600. With the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, however, the population fell, and in 1936 the community reported 1,053 residents and eighty businesses. The population was 1,500 in the mid-1960s. In 1990 the town had 1,252 residents and twenty-seven businesses. Cattle ranching, oil and gas, and lumber are its chief industries.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cherokee County History (Jacksonville, Texas: Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986). Hattie Joplin Roach, A History of Cherokee County (Dallas: Southwest, 1934).

Generation #1

Archibald McDaniel
(Rev War Vet)
b. 1750 d. 12 Oct 1825
wife:
Margaret Wade Lowry

Generation # 2

Mathew McDaniel
b. 1766 d. 1841
wife:
Mahalia Terry

Generation #3

Joel Robert McDaniel
b. 1846 - d. 1929
wife:
Rebecca Zera Pinson

Generation #4

Dr. Irvin Hollis McDaniel
b. 1868  d. 1944 
wife:
Lola B White
b. 25 Nov 1879 TX d. 14 Nov 1964 TX

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Joel Robert & Rebecca McDaniel
(Picture from the family Bible)
Parents of Irvin H McDaniel

The McDaniel House Laurens County SC
Home of Joel & Rebecca McDaniel

Pictures Provided by:
Wayne McDaniel

Joel Robert McDaniel 
Born: 7 Oct 1846 SC
Died: 11 Apr 1929 SC
Married: 10 Dec 1867 SC
Buried: Mt Pleasant Cemetery SC
Rebecca Zera Pinson
(Daughter of Gabriel & Lucinda [Henderson] Pinson
Born: 10 Jul 1847 SC
Died: 8 Jan 1947 SC
Buried: Mt Pleasant Cemetery SC

Children: 10 Known

Family Bible Record:

All of the children of Joel & Rebecca where recorded in the
Joel McDaniel Family Bible record and various others, some deaths
and marriages also recorded.

The McDaniel Family Information above 
was provided by:
Wayne McDaniel