Surname	Shook
Given Name	Daniel
Gender	Male
Born	1812-1814 in Missouri
Died	Maybe 1884, but probably during the Civil War in Texas
Father	Jacob SHOOK (1771-1780 NC - bef. 07-JAN-1858 AR)
Mother	Elizabeth UNKNOWN (1785 - 1835 AR)

Family Line

Daniel Shook-> Jacob Shook (f)-> Johanne Jacob Shook (gf)-> Johanne Hans George Shook (Schuck) (g-gf)-> Johannes Shook (Schuck) (gg-gf).

Marriage

Emily Sue HOOVER; born: 03-NOV-1822 in Tennessee; died: 24-NOV-1901 in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas; buried: Willow Wild Cemetery, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas; Plot: D 92.

Children

• Martha Elizabeth SHOOK (21-MAR-1841 AR - 03-DEC-1893 TX)
• Jacob A. "Jake" SHOOK (03-FEB-1843 AR - 23-APR-1928 TX)
• Laurena Isabella "Lou" SHOOK (04-MAY-1846 TX - 21-NOV-1914 TX)
• Edwin J. SHOOK (~1848 TX - )
• Elzira Mary Emilee SHOOK (MAR-1851 TX - )
• Edona C. SHOOK (~1855 TX - )
• William D. SHOOK (~1857 TX - )
• Henry Bascom SHOOK (16-JAN-1860 TX - 21-JUL-1898 TX)

Notes

Daniel SHOOK CSA was born in 1812/1814 in Missouri Territory. He died in 1884 in Texas. Daniel was identified by Jacob Shook in his will in which he stated "Item, I give devise and bequeath to my son Daniel Shook the sum of twenty five dollars to him and his heirs in addition to what I have already heretofore given and advanced to him, to be paid by my executors out of my estate." Tracing Daniel thru the census records we find that he was born in the Missouri Territory and that he lived (with his father) in Hempstead County, Arkansas in 1830, in Sevier County, Arkansas in 1840, and in Paris in Lamar County, Texas in 1850 and 1860. We find his wife, Emily, as head of household in Bonham in Fannin County, Texas in 1870. Based on the years and states in which his children were born, we see that he moved from Arkansas to Texas in about 1845.

The following biographical information is from A History Of Fannin County: "A circuit rider was a pioneer preacher in Fannin County. Daniel Shook (1812-1884) held many Methodist meetings in Fannin county in the late 1840s. Daniel's brothers also settled in Texas. Nathan and Jefferson Shook were preachers in Clarksville, Dallas, Paris, and Bonham. Their father was Jacob Shook, a native of N. C. Daniel lived first in Hempstead County, Ar. with his father Jacob. Daniel, a native of Missouri, and wife Emily (1822-1901), a native of Tennessee, were parents of Martha, Jacob and Laurena, who married C. F. Wilson of Bonham; Edwin; Elzira; who married John Lawrence of Bonham; Edonia, William D. and Henry B."

The following biographical information is from The History and Genealogy of Some Pioneer Northern Alabama Families: "Dan was a Methodist minister and was the first "circuit rider" in Texas. He organized the first Methodist Society in the home of Isaac Webb on May 5, 1845 (the year that Texas became a state); the members were Isaac B. and Mary Webb, Mrs. W. M. Cochran, M. F. Fortner and Mrs. Fortner. This was where Dallas now stands." Daniel was also a farmer. He received a second class headright of 640 acres in Red River County on January 3, 1839. (1840 Citizens of Texas, Vol. 1 Land Grants.) He was the original owner of land in Lamar County (abstract 872) and Fannin County (abstract 1011). In the 1860 census of Lamar and Fannin county males born between 1811 and 1847 (and thus eligible for military service in the Confederate States Army) it is stated that he was 46 years old, was born in 1814, was a farmer, lived in dwellings 30 and 31 in Precinct 5, and had real and personal property worth $6000.

On June 10, 1861 he enlisted as an Orderly Sergeant in Hill's Lamar Cavalry No. 2. This unit was organized that day by Captain James Hill at Persimmon Grove in Lamar County. On page 324 of Lamar County Deed Book L it is stated that the Company "is a volunteer Company and [is] attached to the Texas Militia Battalion organized under the act to incorporate volunteer companies approved February the 15th, 1858." Lamar and Hopkins counties were in the 9th Military District and the company was attached to the 9th Brigade of Texas Militia and Texas State Troops. These units were mustered for home guard duty and were not allowed to leave the state.

It is not known exactly when or where Daniel died. The biographical sketch in "A History Of Fannin County" gives 1884 as the year of his death, but he was not listed in either the 1870 or 1880 census.

Daniel married Emily [Hoover] about 1840 in Arkansas. Emily was born on 03-NOV-1822 in Tennessee. She died on 24-NOV-1901 in Bonham, Fannin, Texas and was buried in Wind Willow Cemetery [Willow Wild Cemetery].

Emily was born in Tennessee, her father in Virginia, and her mother in South Carolina. She was head of household in Bonham in 1870. She was a boarder in the household of her son-in-law John Lawrence in Bonham in 1880. Her daughter Dona C. Shook lived with her in Bohnam in 1900. In the 1900 census, Emily stated that she was a widow who had had four children, three of which were still living. Census records indicate that she had eight children.