Hiram was nine when Rebecca died. His working birth date is 29 March 1810, in Ohio. The postmaster appointment index records him at Wilkesville, Gallia County, on 15 January 1833.

He married Eliza Whiton on 5 May 1835, according to the Gallia County marriage index. Her reported dates are 1807–15 June 1885. The family account identifies her parents as Joseph and Amanda Whiton.

The census trail places Hiram in Wilkesville as a merchant in 1850, in the Pomeroy area of Meigs County as a banker in 1860 and 1870, and in Waggoner, Mason County, West Virginia, as a farmer and coal proprietor in 1880.

After Eliza Whiton’s death, Hiram reportedly married Mary Sage (Woodworth) Garfield, widow of Harrison Garfield, about 1888. The precise marriage date remains unverified, but his will explicitly identifies Mary Sage Daniel as his wife and nominates her as executrix.

Hiram’s reported death was 30 November 1893 in West Virginia. His memorial places his burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Pomeroy, Ohio. The will was signed on 3 July 1893 and admitted to record in January 1894.

Eliza’s signed 1891 passport application states that she was born at Piketon, Ohio, on 25 April 1816. Rebecca’s death left her motherless at three; James’s reported 1828 death came shortly before her twelfth birthday.

Her first husband is called Joseph Coover in biography and Joseph B. Cooves in the family profile, which reports a marriage on 18 January 1842. The 1893 biographical account says her husband died a few months after their marriage. His exact death date and the original marriage entry have not been established here.

The Athens County marriage index records Eliza Daniel Coover and Hiram Stewart on 6 December 1848. In the original 1880 Springfield census, Hiram is a married retired merchant, sixty-five, and Eliza is his wife, sixty-four, a temperance lecturer. His death is therefore recorded here as after 1880; an exact date has not been found.

Stepchildren: the 1850 household index includes Charles W., eight, Theodore, four, and Hiram, fourteen. Charles and Theodore predate the 1848 marriage and are possible matches for the two stepsons mentioned in biography. The younger Hiram’s relationship is not established by that index. None is assigned to Eliza as a biological child on household membership alone.

Reported infant losses: a later biography says Eliza had five children who died in infancy. Her 1900 census index instead reports zero children born and zero living; the original count has not been verified. The census excluded stillbirths, so stillbirths are a possible explanation, but no evidence establishes five stillbirths. The discrepancy remains unresolved, and individual unnamed children are not treated as documented identities.

Eliza died on 6 August 1908 at Hicksville, according to an Associated Press report published the following day. That clipping does not identify Hicksville’s state or county. Her burial was at Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.

Marriage: the Ross County return says James Daniels and Rebecca Guthery were joined in matrimony on the 21st and is certified 24 May 1808 by Arthur Chinoweth, justice of the peace. The marriage date is therefore 21 May 1808. The reported 31 May date is not supported by this instrument.

Death: page 6 of the Guthery–Baldwin Bible clearly records 15 June 1819 for Rebekah Daniel. That is the adopted date. The memorial index gives 16 June 1819; the later interview transcript gives 16 June 1817. These are retained as discrepant readings rather than merged into a single citation.

The Bible’s date is directly readable, but the age of the book does not establish when each family entry was written. Mary Gray May’s 1956 history places Rebecca’s burial with her parents at Mound Cemetery in Piketon.

James’s birth year remains uncertain: 1782 in the profile and 1784 in memorial information. The approximate 1782–1784 range preserves that uncertainty. His reported Virginia birthplace is consistent with the paternal-birthplace entries in his children’s 1880 census indexes.

The reported death date is 27 February 1828. The Gallia County probate index cites 5 July 1828, in the court’s Wills, Journals, etc., volume C, 1824–1831. Later 1829 references belong to the estate trail; they do not establish that James was alive or resident then.

The family research account describes a guardianship petition by Hiram while still a minor. The full underlying estate and guardianship sequence would be useful for identifying heirs and their roles. The absence of a reviewed guardianship entry for Eliza does not establish that girls were excluded.

Lydia Peters’s account reports James’s later marriages to a woman surnamed Cockerill and to Lydia Wood. Their dates and identities remain unverified. No additional children are assigned to Rebecca from those reports.

Hiram G. Daniel signed his will on 3 July 1893. It was presented to the Mason County court on 2 January 1894. Because the subscribing witnesses were outside West Virginia, depositions were taken at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on 4 January. The continued court session of 8 January 1894 proved the will and ordered it recorded.

The instrument calls Eliza D. Stewart his “dear sister” and gives her $50 annually, payable quarterly for life. It identifies Mary Sage Daniel as his wife, provides for her, and nominates her as executrix. Those are stated relationships and roles; they are not evidence that every named person lived in his household.

His daughter Catharine Daniel Rathburn and granddaughter Annie Grace Rathburn Nottingham are expressly named. A daughter’s given name is read as Emmy Garfield Plantz, and a grandson’s as Myatt Garfield Plantz; these readings are retained alongside the family roster’s Mary Garfield and the index’s Wyatt variant.

A bequest of regalia and an heirloom watch also names his sons James Garfield Daniel and Henry Martyn Daniel in the watch’s history. Their appearance in the will does not establish that they were living in 1893.

Other beneficiaries include Miss Blanche Campbell and Frank [middle initial uncertain] Chesnut, without an explicit family relationship in those bequests. Witnesses and the notary are not counted as heirs simply because their names appear in the probate index.

Mason County, West Virginia, Will Books, volumes 1–2, 1833–1896, pp. 363–368. The July 1893 execution date must not be used as the probate date. The proceedings are consistent with the reported 30 November 1893 death but do not independently supply that exact date.

Her own statement: application 27041, sworn 9 May 1891 and issued 12 May, gives 25 April 1816, Piketon, Ohio, as Eliza’s birth. She signs as “(Mother) Eliza D. Stewart” and describes herself as a Springfield resident and temperance evangelist. The application is a retrospective birth statement; it does not name either parent.

Postal work: a later biography credits Eliza with assisting her brother in a post office in 1833 and calls that office Piketon. Hiram’s appointment index instead names Wilkesville. His indexed appointment is retained as such; Eliza’s assistant role and the national “first woman” claim remain biographical reports requiring separate evidence.

Hiram Stewart in 1880: the original Springfield schedule, ED 048, South Yellow Springs Street, house 91, dwelling 253/family 327, shows Hiram and Eliza as husband and wife. It also identifies Mattie Campbell, thirty-two, as a niece and schoolteacher. This is a different source from Hiram Daniel’s will; Mattie is not automatically identified as its Blanche Campbell.

Eliza’s death: the Associated Press item in The Coos Bay Times, 7 August 1908, carries a Springfield dateline but says she died at Hicksville “last night.” This supports the working date 6 August 1908 and the reported locality Hicksville. The headline says “today,” a small internal timing conflict. The clipping’s Elizabeth M. Stewart name variant does not replace her established name.

The dispatch does not identify Hicksville’s state or county. Automated obituary place expansions and Springfield’s role as dateline or burial place do not settle that finer location. No death certificate was found.

• Ross County marriage return: James Daniels and Rebecca Guthery, 21 May 1808; certified 24 May by Arthur Chinoweth. Film 000281649, image 87 of 649; original image reviewed.
• Guthery–Baldwin family Bible: page 6, death entry for Rebekah Daniel, 15 June 1819; compared with the memorial’s 16 June 1819 and interview transcript’s 16 June 1817.
• Lydia Guthery Peters’s account, April 1872, later typed copy; and Mary Gray May, The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families (1956), p. 16.
• Gallia County estate index: James Daniel, probate reference 5 July 1828; Probate Court, Wills, Journals, etc., volume C, 1824–1831. Index and profile references do not constitute a complete reading of the estate.
• U.S. Postmaster Appointments, 1832–1971: Hiram G. Daniel, Wilkesville, Gallia County, Ohio, 15 January 1833, volume 9, 1832–1843; appointment index.
• Ohio marriage indexes: Hiram G. Daniel–Eliza Whiton, 5 May 1835, Gallia County, film 000317652; Eliza Daniel Coover–Hiram Stewart, 6 December 1848, Athens County, film 000311592.
• Mason County, West Virginia, will book: Hiram G. Daniel, pp. 363–368 in the volumes 1–2 collection, 1833–1896; will signed 3 July 1893, presented 2 January 1894, witness depositions 4 January, ordered recorded 8 January. Original images reviewed.
• U.S. passport application 27041: Eliza D. Stewart, sworn 9 May and issued 12 May 1891, roll 370, 8–14 May 1891; signed original reviewed.
• Federal censuses: Hiram Daniel’s 1850–1880 index trail; the Stewart 1850 household index; original 1880 Springfield household, ED 048, dwelling 253/family 327; Eliza’s 1900 Springfield Ward 4 index, sheet 11, dwelling 207/family 233. The 1900 child-count entry remains unverified against the original.
• U.S. Census Bureau: 1900 instructions to enumerators, paragraphs 136–137, excluding stillbirths from the children-born count.
• Associated Press death report: The Coos Bay Times, 7 August 1908, Springfield dateline, reporting Mother Stewart’s death at Hicksville the previous night; supplied newspaper image reviewed.
• Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, editors: A Woman of the Century (1893), Eliza Daniel Stewart; a retrospective biography published during her lifetime.
• Martha Jones: “Stewart, Eliza Daniel (1816–1908)”, Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia; source of the five-infant-loss and two-stepson reports.
• Ohio State University: Woman’s Crusade of 1873–74, with historical context and selections from Stewart’s writing.
• Eliza’s books: Memories of the Crusade and The Crusader in Great Britain (1893). These are further-reading leads; no complete new review of either book is claimed.
• Memorial and family-profile information: Rebecca and James Daniel; Hiram Daniel and his children; Eliza Stewart’s Ferncliff memorial, 31618411. Exact dates resting on those sources are identified as reported.
• Rebecca in the Guthrie Research Tree and the John Guthery & Lydia Baldwin Family Hub.