DANIEL CHADWICK

Gloria B. Mayfield, CC

Daniel Chadwick (1836-1912), His wife, Martha Bussey Chadwick (1836-1905) and five children came by wagon train from Rus-sell County, Alabama to Panola County, Texas, in the late fall of 1869. Two of the children were born prior to the Civil War, John L. Chadwick (1860-1912) in Hattiesburg, Miss., and Daniel Davis (1861-1936) in Spar-tanburg, S.C. After serving four years in the Confederate Army, Daniel Chadwick, took his family to the farm of his father, John L. Chadwick, in Russell County, where he lived for the next four years, and where three addi-tional children were born: Henry Clay (1866-1922), Francis Marion (1867-1950), and Nancy Anna (1869-1 934).

The wagon train in which Daniel Chadwick made the trip to Texas consisted of twenty-eight families. In his own wagon, in addition to his wife and five children, were his father, John L. Chadwick and his step mother-in-law, Elizabeth Bussey Chadwick. Two months after arriving in Panola County, John L. Chadwick died. He was buried in the Six Mile Cemetery in the Snap community, the first Chadwick to die in Panola County.Daniel Chadwick put in his first crop in the Snap  Community in the spring of 1870. In 1871 he moved with his family to a place some 4 miles west of Carthage, where he purchased six tracts of land between 1872 and 1881, increasing his farm to several hundred acres in size. Here three additional sons were born: William Sandy (1 876-1 940), Benton Montgomery (1874-1946), and Lin-wood Estekk (1876-1949).

With the help of his seven sons Daniel prospered and soon came to be one of Panola County’s wealthiest citizens. He owned and operated a general merchandise store, and a Cotton Gin. He loaned the money to build a Carthage School. Some of Panola County’s most distinguished men got their start in life with money loaned them by Daniel Chadwick.
The eight children of Daniel Chadwick all became land owners in Panola County, except John L. who established a grocery and feed store in Carthage, and Henry Clay, who had a business in Ft. Worth, Texas. All together they produced forty-seven grand children for Daniel.
In 1975 a reunion of the descendants of Daniel Chadwick was held at the home of Cary Chadwick, West of Carthage. Among the one hundred persons at the reunion was a fifth generation descendant of Daniel. Among those present were many distinguished educators and businessmen. Fifty families were represented there.

The Chadwicks are of English origin. They are believed to have originated from an Anglo-Saxon warrior king, Ceade, who lived in the 5th century A.D., in what later came to be Rochdale parrish in Lancaster County, En-gland. The first Chadwick to come to America was Charles; He came in Gov. Winthrop’s fleetg in 1630, a sworn freedman of the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony. Daniel Chadwick’s first American ancestor was Lazarus Chad-wick who came to South Carolina in 1765.
by Dr. Claude S. Chadwick