Hannah (Barchus) Colson Daniels 1838 - 1916 -- an Amazing Life
Hannah
was born on the Ohio farm of Thomas and Sarah (Bacon) Barchus in 1838.
In 1848, when Hannah was ten years old, her father Thomas died, at age
35. Hannah's mother Sarah stayed on the farm long enough to be recorded
in the 1850 census with her four children.
In 1855, Sarah Barchus took Hannah and her three other children to Marion County Iowa, where they lived with Sarah's brother Samuel Bacon and his family. They are recorded there in the Iowa State census of 1856 -- all but Hannah. She had married Thomas Colson, 29 Nov 1855 in Mahaska County, Iowa. Their son-- John Dudley Colson, was born a year later, on 23 September, 1856.
Thomas Colson died 14 March 1859, age 22. His wife Hannah (Barchus) Colson was three months pregnant with their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Colson, born 23 September 1859, a post obit baby. Meanwhile, on 19 August 1859, Hannah's mother Sarah married Reuben Daniels (senior) in Mahaska County, Iowa. Reuben Daniels had a son, Reuben Daniels, a bachelor 30 years old. Reuben Jr. married Hannah (Barchus) Colson 25 Feb 1860 in Jasper County, Iowa. Hannah's son John Colson, and her daughter Sarah Colson, would go by the surname Daniels from 1860 until they were adults.
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| Bow yokes on a bullock team, Creative Commons License, credit to Cgoodwin |
In 1864, Reuben Daniels and Hannah (Barchus) Colson Daniels, along with their two Colson children, and their parents, Reuben Daniels Sr. and Sarah (Barchus) Daniels, with Sarah's two younger children, Caroline and Constant Barchus, plus Sarah's eldest daughter Julia (Barchus) Campbell, her husband W J Campbell, their three young children, W J's father, Alexander Campbell, and various brothers of Reuben Daniels and of W J Campbell, plus the town doctor and other people, left Iowa May 1864, and traveled the Oregon Trail. 2,170 grueling miles later, they settled on farms in Clackamas, and Linn Counties, Oregon, later spreading out to farms in Washington.
Hannah raised five children, and took care of many grandchildren, while helping Reuben run their farm. Reuben died in 1911. Hannah died 13 June 1916, and was buried with Reuben under a monument that says "DANNALS". The family spelled their surname both ways -- Daniels and Dannals, as can be seen on various records. Hannah was only twenty years old when Thomas Colson died. She was a strong woman who raised five children, traveled the Oregon Trail, and made her mark on building this country.
Hannah, and her family, did not do it all alone. They were Christians who took their faith seriously. They stood by each other with love.
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