History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 622. JOHN H. McDANIEL, born in Knottsville Precinct, April 21, 1849, is a son of Hardin McDaniel, also a native of this precinct. His grandfather, John McDaniel, was an early settler here. He was reared on a farm and still follows that occupation, owning seventy-one acres of well-improved land. He was educated in the common schools of this precinct. Jan. 22, 1874, he married Susan M. Medcalf, daughter of Edward Medcalf, an early settler of Knottsville. They have had two children--Herman E. (deceased), and Charles E. Mr. McDaniel is a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities. He is an Elder in the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. McDaniel Medcalf = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/mcdaniel.jh.txt