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Daniel A. and Rhoda (Wilson) McAninch, 50th and 60th Anniversaries

Daniel Alexander McAninch

Daniel Alexander McAninch was born 16 Dec. 1850, in Hendricks County, Indiana (probably

born on the family farm in Clay Township), and grew up in the Coatesville area. A family story

says that he did not like the name Alexander, and always signed his name D A. Note [1]

Daniel A. McAninch’s parents were Daniel McAninch ('senior') (born 17 Apr. 1819, Casey Co.,

Kentucky, died 27 May 1897, Hendricks County, Indiana) and Phebe (Pike) McAninch (born

5 Mar. 1827, Ohio (prob. Highland County), died 10 Mar. 1883, Franklin Township, Hendricks

County, Indiana). Phebe's parents were Tristram and Margaret T. (Buntain) Pike, close neighbors

of the Samuel and Polly (Skidmore) McAninch family. Daniel and Phebe (Pike) McAninch were

married 6 Sept. 1843, in Hendricks County, and had five children (only three lived to adulthood):

1. Joseph Fletcher McAninch, b.4 Mar. 1845, mar. Elizabeth Amy Howerton, 1868, to Kansas;

2. Mary M. McAninch, b.13 Sept. 1848, mar. Dallas Wilson, 1869, lived in Hendricks and Putnam;

3. Sarah C. McAninch, b.13 Dec. 1848, d.18 Dec. 1848, bur. (Old) Pleasant Hill M.E. Cemetery;

4. Daniel Alexander McAninch, b.16 Dec. 1850, mar. Rhoda B. Wilson, 1869, lived in Coatesville;

5. Phebe E. McAninch, b.6 Dec. 1852, d 6 Oct. 1853, bur. (Old) Pleasant Hill M.E. Cemetery.

Daniel ('senior') was a successful farmer in Franklin Township, Hendricks County, and was a

Justice of the Peace in Hendricks County in the 1860s. Daniel ('senior') and Phebe McAninch are

both buried in the Stilesville Cemetery, Stilesville, Hendricks County, Indiana. [2]

Daniel A. McAninch’s grand-parents were Samuel McAninch (born ca.5 Feb. 1789, Pennsylvania,

poss. Westmoreland County; died 30 July 1859, Hendricks County, Indiana) and (Mary) Polly

(Skidmore) McAninch (born 3 Apr. 1797, Lincoln County, Kentucky; died ca.1847-1850, prob.

Hendricks County, Indiana). Samuel and Polly (Skidmore) McAninch were married 5 July 1813,

Lincoln County, Kentucky. During 1831-1832, Samuel McAninch left Casey County, Kentucky,

moving to Putnam County, Indiana, then settling in adjacent Hendricks County, where Tristram

Pike and Samuel McAninch were adjoining neighbors. In the mid-1840s, Tristram Pike started

the (Pike) cemetery on his land at Pleasant Hill, and Samuel McAninch donated an attached

half-acre for the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, in Franklin Township, Hendricks Co.

Samuel, and other McAninch and Pike family members, were buried in the (Old) Pleasant Hill

(Methodist Episcopal) Cemetery, Franklin Township, Hendricks County, Indiana [3] [4]

And Daniel A. McAninch (1850-1930) was a great-grand-son of our original Daniel McAninch,

pioneer in Lincoln and Casey Counties, Kentucky. Original pioneer Daniel McAninch was born

ca.1748-1752, (northern) (British Colonial) Ireland (prob. northern Co. Antrim, Ulster province).

Daniel came to colonial Pennsylvania, and married Mary Smith, 11 June 1776, Conococheague

Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, Penn. (the location is now part of Franklin Co., Penn.).

Daniel and his family followed the classic Ulster Scots migration pattern, western Pennsylvania in

the 1790 census, down the Great Valley of the Shenandoah, stopped for a year in Greene County,

eastern Tennessee, then over the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky,

arriving in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in the late 1790s. Later, Daniel and two of his sons went

south to Giles County, Tennessee, and Daniel died ca.1822, Tennessee (prob. Giles County). [5]

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Daniel A. and Rhoda (Wilson) McAninch, 50th Anniversary, 1919, and 60th Anniversary, 1929

McA. Family Hist. NL v.XXXI (31) n.1 / June 2023 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2023-03