History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 621. JOHN McDANIEL, born in Nelson County, Ky., Oct. 15, 1833, is a son of Ephraim McDaniel, also a native of Nelson County, who came with his family to Daviess County in 1839. He was educated in the common subscription school and was reared to the life of a farmer. He now owns a farm of eighty acres under a good state of cultivation. He was married in January, 1866, to Sarah E. Head, daughter of Richard Head, and a native of Daviess County. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel are members of the Catholic church. McDaniel Head = Nelson http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/mcdaniel.j.txt