The age-herald., 1901-10-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 : AND ELSEWHERE
Great Family Reunion in Jefferson.

| ATSaI dmlly ncunioH in JSHSTSOns
 There was great reunion of the Mo.
 Daniel family, descendants of the late kJohn R. McDaniel and his wife, Mrs. Me l Daniel, who still survives. held at the
 beautiful home of Dr. A. J. Farley, reia-
 tive by marriage, in West Leeds on Mon- | day.
 John R. McDaniel went to dwell in Ca
 haba valley, near the site of the present
 new town of Leeds, some ninety years ago, and his memory Is cherished by an
 army of descendants. This years reunion
 was primarily in honor of his venerable
 widow, and the only absentees were Mrs. Aurenie Owen, eldest daughter, wife of
 Luther c. Owen, late of Cahaba valley, now residing in Texas with her children,
 and Joseph A. McDaniel and his family, kept away on account of illness. | The eldest son. Ebb J. McDaniel of Iron dale, whose entire family was present, acted as master of ceremonies. His fam fly consists of his wife and his sons, Charles and Ava, together with his son. | in-law, Dr. Farley, and the doctors fam fly, including his sons Robert and Dyer, NAiA NeRh5heSAS NOlas ANdAiiiC1 1NSS" oAiei Minnie; Frank Farley, Dr. Farley s brother and Frank Bruce and wife and | child of Ensley; Richard McDaniel of Trussville, with his family, consisting of his sons Dyer Michael and Eugene, and daughter Daisy; Thomas B. McDaniel of Gary, with his sons James and Theodore, and daughters Mabel, Nora, Florence and Minnie, his two sons-in-law, A. J. Pool of Gary, with family, and Wiley Me- the late John R, McDaniel. with their wives and numerous children; W. Rufus Little of Gary. with wife and two chill dren; Columbus Bass of Irondale, with wife and three children; R. D. Jones of Moody, with his wife and daughters Eff f1e and Texie and q number of smaller children; John B. Jones of Leeds with his family. All the foregoing and some others whose names escape, belonged to the McDaniel family. There were many guests who were not immediate relatives, and altogether the grand party numbered close to 200, the descendants of John R. McDaniel alone reaching up towards hundred
 The great dinner tables shook beneath their burden of good things of the feast. The dear old mother of them all, the ven- erable widow. Mrs. Mcdaniel, had the chief seat of honor, and next to her came Squire Luke Bass of Irondale and Aunts Roxey White Demie Scott. Nancy Neal and Bettie Bass, all of whom are devot- edly loved
 Never was there finer dinner spread in Jefferson County declares one who was present, and every man who has lived in the country can we'll believe that to be true.
 ''1t was banquet fit for the gods for 1t was prepared in the most part by the fair hands of numerous fair descendants of good old John McDaniel, the pioneer of Jefferson County-his charming daughters. granddaughters and great granddaughters, who are amongst the loveliest women in the county.
 "The bountiful feast was a source of delight to the aged as they beheld their stalwart sons, beautiful daughters and granddaughters, matrons and maidens, and the gleeful young children, who gathered about them and heard the stories of the family life which in turn they shall transmit to generations yet to be. Next year there will be an- other reunion of this powerful and num- erous family of the McDaniels, the place of meeting to be selected in the mean time.
 What joyous gathering that meeting Of the clan McDaniel at Dr. Farley's home In West Leeds must have been, and how much any one of us all would have rejoiced to have witnessed it From the old mother of them all down to the youngest child, and including the many stalwart youths and many beautiful maidens-true southerners and sons and daughters of Jefferson in the third and fourth generations-all of them we may well believe were abundantly happy. And what a royal feast must have been that great old-time country dinner, in the preparation of which the octogenerian mother and the exquisite maiden great granddaughter alike took part! It makes ones mouth water' and ones faded pulse to stir to think of it. Such a fam fly gathering speaks much for the stur- dness. thrift and prosperity of the old families of Jefferson