Jacob G. Danner and his wife, Elizabeth Mariah, both natives of Mississippi, came to Palo Pinto County in 1870.  Danner, one of two sons of Jacob G. Danner Sr., who came to America from Germany and settled in Mississippi after living for a time in Virginia, was a Captain in the Civil War and fought at Chicamauga and Lookout Mountain.  He was wounded in battle and returned to his native state where he taught school before going to Arkansas and on to Texas.

The couple settled north of Santo and engaged in stock raising and farming and they were members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Danner died March 3, 1902, at the age of 69; Mrs. Danner died in 1903 at the age of 68.  Both are buried at Santo

The late Mrs. Frank B. Watson was their daughter.  Descendants still in the county are Fred C. Watson and Fred C. Watson Jr., both of Gordon.  Other descendents are Beulah Watson, Breckenridge; Mrs. Myrtle W. Ross, Austin; Mrs. Lewis G. Bryan, San Mateo, Calif.; Mrs. A. B. Gilbert, Murchison; and the late Mrs. J. V. Talley of Caddo; John and Dewey Daberry, Shamrock; Mrs. Stella Sanders, Oklahoma City; Emma Catherine, John G., Loutilda (late Mrs. Vance Dabery); Cina Adeline (late Mrs. Frank Watson); Varina (Mrs. V. G. Lasater), Phoenix, Ariz.; George, and the late Jacob G. Danner of Bluffdale, Texas.