Michael Paul Nichols

Joseph married Sandra Jo McDaniel in Private. Sandra (daughter of Joseph Rad McDaniel and Mary Anita Hafford) was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rad worked at a refinery. He was a Feed & Seed Manager, automotive parts salesman and manager. He also had a
dairy farm. Anita and Rad lived on the Sid Bassett home place, where they had a dairy farm. They kept the place in a high state of repair. It is a beautiful farm and has been in the same family for over 100 years.


Cooke County History: Past and Present
Joseph Rad and Mary Anita (Hafford) McDaniel

Joseph Rad McDaniel was born June 02, 1910, in Cooke County, Texas.
Rad was the oldest of four children born to Jim and Sally McDaniel. Mary Anita
(Hafford) was born February 11, 1910, in Cooke County, Texas, in the
Woodbine/Dye community. Mary Anita was the third oldest child of four children
born to Luther and Amy Hafford. Amy Hafford died when Mary Anita was three
years of age. Luther never remarried.
Rad and Mary Anita married on July 11, 1936. Rad worked at Tydal
Refinery, Gainesville, Texas, during the early years of their marriage, and
they lived in Gainesville. Later, they moved to the farm, and Rad was a farmer
and dairyman while also working in Gainesville in the feed business and
automotive parts retail business.
Mary Anita was a homemaker and community leader, returned to college,
and subsequently taught homemaking at the Gainesville State School for Girls.
Rad and Mary Anita retired in 1975.
Rad and Mary Anita had three children: Jerry, the eldest, Bob, and
Sandy. Jerry married Carla Jo Bush of Gainesville and moved to Virginia. Bob
married Dartha Lynch, divorced, and resides in California. Sandy married Joe
Nichols, and they reside on the fourth-generation farm where Sandy was raised.
The farm was first purchased by Mary Anita's grandfather, Sidney Algern
Bassett, in 1883. Her father, Luther Hafford, resided here next, and Mr.
Hafford then sold the farm to Mary Anita and Rad McDaniel.
Mary Anita developed Alzheimer's Disease and is and has been a nursing
home resident since 1983.
Rad, at age eighty-one, remains active and healthy, and, as suc
tends to the needs of Mary Anita at the nursing home, which required almost
sixty miles driving on a daily basis. Article by Joe Nichols.

Joseph married Mary Anita Hafford on 11 Jul 1936 in Woodbine, Cooke County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Luther Coleman Hafford and Amy Florence Bassett) was born on 11 Feb 1910 in Sarita, Texas; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary and Joseph were married by Ray Hand, Minister.

Notes:

Luther worked as a cook on the St. Frances River several years for the loggers. When his parents moved to Texas in December of 1896, he stayed behind to bring the things they owned. He rode down on an Immigrant-Box-Car on the train. Everything they owned was placed in one car. Stalls were built for the animals and he was responsible for their care. He became a Produce and Poultry farmer. He turned the Texas Bassett Farm into a Poultry Farm.

Luther married Amy Florence Bassett on 4 Jan 1903 in Cooke County, Texas. Amy (daughter of Algernon Sidney Bassett and Frances Ellen Nichols) was born on 30 Mar 1875 in Foster Township, Marion County, Illinois; died on 12 Feb 1913 in Bassett Homestead near Gainsville, Cooke County, Texas; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Amy came to Texas as a child with her parents. The Civil War was over and also the Indian trouble had moved west, no longer a threat to the Gainesville area. She became a teacher in Salem, Texas from 1901-02. A near
tragedy occurred when an irate mother took a hammer and beat Amy and left her for dead on a lonely country road. She was discovered and was taken home. She decided being a housewife was a much safer job, so she stayed home and helped her husband.