06/06/2026
Here is the tenth installment from the Pike County Ohio Genealogy and Historical Society, in our series of the Celebration of American Revolutionary War Patriots, who relocated to Pike County, Ohio, in honor of America's 250th Birthday and Semi Quintennial Festivities.
This is the second Veteran on the original 1940 DAR List, who while he lived in and was buried in Pike County, Ohio, he served during the War of 1812, and not during the Revolutionary War. But as a true American Patriot, he still deserves mention, as well, since even his father too, served in the Revolutionary War, but he never lived in Ohio, as his son was the first Daniels family member to call Pike County home, choosing Seal Township.
Benjamin Franklin Daniels was born 1 May 1774 in the Virginia Colonies, to John & Lydia Bice (White) Daniels, the youngest of four known children. Sometime before the beginning of the 19th century in Virginia, he married Elizabeth Stalcup. We have identified at least ten children they had together and suspect at least six or seven of the children were born in Ohio, after they had departed Virginia and Pennsylvania.
He first appears as a head of household in the 1790 census in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and was living in Pike County, Ohio, about the time of the state’s forming and while it was still Ross County, arriving with his brother Dennis about 1803/1804 after he purchased a large tract of land near current day Piketon, a Quarter Section of land from the US Government on 15 Apri 1800.
Nearby Jackson County began creating a company for the War of 1812 and the third auditor of the Treasury Department kindly furnished a company roll as follows: Muster Roll of Captain Jared Strong’s Company, Ohio Militia, of the First Odd Battalion, Second Brigade, Second Division, United States, commanded by Major Benjamin Daniels, from 29 Jul 1813, to 19 Aug 1813, inclusive. He received a pension of $300 per year and 160 acres of bounty land. When Benjamin was permitted to return home he was shot in his left leg by Indians and was so severely wounded that he did not reach home for three months.
After the war, Daniels served as Pike County Commissioner, from 1825-1832, and was appointed an Associate Pike County Judge, from 1829-1835. His wife Elizabeth died in 1846, and was buried on the family farm, while Major Daniels passed away 14 Jun 1857, at his home east of Piketon, and he too was buried in what later became known as Daniels Cemetery, near Rehm, Pike County, Ohio.
US Military Records, War of 1812, Benjamin Daniels, Major 1st Odd Battalion, Ohio, War of 1812.
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio, US Military Records, Benjamin Daniels Major 1st Odd Battalion Ohio War of 1812.
Ledgers of payments, 1818-1876, to US pensioners, Benjamin Daniels Died, 14 Jun 1857.
Tax Records, Pike, Ohio, Benjamin Daniels, 1817.
