John R. Daily.
Zion's Advocate, July 1899, Vol. 38, No. 7.
Thinking our many subscribers whom we have never had the pleasure of meeting would be pleased to get our picture, we insert it in the Advocate.We were born in Clinton County, Indiana, May 21, 1854. Our great-grandfather was a native of Ireland, and located in New Jersey in an early day. Two of his sons, James (our grandfather) and Charles, went to North Carolina, and afterward to Southern Indiana, where they both reared large families. Our father, Peter Daily, married Zealia Nettie Gray, whose parents were natives of Connecticut. In 1857 our parents became members of the Baptist Church, and continued faithful until death released them from the warfare. Mother died April 15, 1879, and father, March 3, 1880. We were the youngest but one of seven children, all the others dying in early childhood or infancy except the oldest, who died March 22, 1880, leaving a wife and two children. He was a soldier in the northern army during the greater part of the Civil War.
In 1870 we were made to rejoice, in trust, in a Saviour's redeeming love, and the night of the 23d of January 1871, were received for baptism by the Little Flock Baptist Church, situated in Clinton County, Indiana. We were baptized the fifth day of February following by Elder John T. Oliphant, now a resident of Ft. Branch, Indiana, an able and very zealous minister of the gospel, whom we have ever regarded as a father to us in the Master's cause.
The first Saturday in August 1876 we were licensed to speak in public, and were ordained to the full work of the ministry September 3, 1881.
J. R. D.
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