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MATTHEW McCREIGHT, born 10 August 1833
in Autauga County, Alabama was one of the three sons
of William McCreight who came to Wood County in
the 1850's. He married Winney Allen of Mississippi in
1856. Matthew McCreight was appointed postmaster
of Lake Fork post office in 1858. This office was discon-
tinued in 1866.
The Matthew McCreights lived in the northwest
part of the county and were farmers. Winney
McCreight died in 1879, and later the same year
Matthew married Sarah E. Robbins. Of the second
marriage one son was born, Matthew McCreight, born
17 July 1881. He married Miss Bertha Pope. Their
children are Overton McCreight and Faye McCreight
McKeown.
BENJAMIN McDANIEL, born 1845 in Alabama,
came to Wood County in 1859 and lived with his uncle,
the Reverend A. Coker, who had settled in the Webster
Community.
Ben McDaniel served the Confederacy during the
Civil War as a member of O. E. Roberts Company, O.
M. Rogers Regiment, Randell Brigade.
JAMES FRANKLIN McDANIEL was born in
1853 and came to Wood County in 1877. He married
Mary E. Patten, daughter of Doctor A. L. Patten, in
1882. The McDaniels lived in Mineola, where he served
as agent for the American Railway Express Company
until his retirement. He also served as mayor of
Mineola at one time and was Worshipful Master of the
Masonic Lodge.
James F. and Mary E. McDaniel were the parents
of one son, Dr. A. A. McDaniel, married Caroline
Evans.
Dr. A. A. McDaniel served in the Medical Corps in
World Wars I and II. Caroline Evans McDaniel was a
descendant of George Mason, a signer of the Declara-
tion of Independence.
The James F. McDaniel home was located where
the Mineola Public Library now stands. He died in his
91st year. He, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were
buried in the Mineola Cemetery.WILLIAM JESSE (BILL) McDONALD came to
Wood County in 1875. He was a son of Major Enochand Eunice Durham McDonald, born 28 September
1852 in Kemper County, Mississippi. In 1866, the
family moved to Rusk County, Texas, Major
McDonald having lost his life in the Civil War at
Corinth, 3 October 1862.
Bill McDonald attended Soule's Commercial
College in New Orleans, and in 1872 taught pen-
manship in Henderson, Texas, later operating a small
store on the Sabine River. When he came to Mineola in
Wood County in 1875 he became the small town's
leading grocer. James Stephen Hogg was a justice of
the peace in Wood County at this time and was also
one of McDonald's customers. Through Hogg,
McDonald met Miss Rhoda Isabel Carter, whom he
married in January 1876.
As deputy sheriff of the county, McDonald made a
reputation for fearless law enforcement, and lightning
quick disarming of his opponent. He was an expert
marksman. When Hogg became County Attorney in
1878 he prosecuted McDonald for carrying a weapon.
The two friends became alienated for a time.
In 1883 the McDonalds moved to Wichita County
where he first engaged in the cattle business, then
lumber. He later acquired land in Hardeman County
where he became deputy sheriff, special ranger, and
U.S. deputy marshal of the Northern District of Texas.
His bold tactics in law enforcement, and his raids on
cattle thieves and train robbers soon made him a Texas
legend.
In 1912, McDonald served as body guard for
Woodrow Wilson, who later as President appointed
McDonald marshal of the Northern District of Texas.
Captain Bill McDonald died of pneumonia in Wichita
Falls, Texas 15 January 1918, and was buried at
Quanah.
Source: Handbook of Texas
WILLIAM JASPER McGUIRE arrived in Wood
County about 1865. He was the son of William Riley
and Mary Langston McGuire, born 1848 in
Douglasville, Georgia. He enlisted in the Confederate
Army at the beginning of the Civil War and served
throughout the war. Noting the destruction of his
native state upon his return home, Will McGuire an-
nounced his intentions of going west where a man could
earn a living with dignity. He arrived in the Pine Mills
area of Wood County in the mid 1860's and took a job
at a sawmill run by Dick Reed.
Shortly after coming to Wood County, McGuirebought a large tract of land in the Redland Community
and sent for his parents and unmarried sister. He also116
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