The apprenticeship of Jennie and Ella Daniel (1883).

On 9 June 1883, a Wilson County Probate Court judge ordered 9 year-old Jennie Daniel and 7 year-old Ella Daniel bound as apprentices to Prince Daniel until they reached 21 years of age. She was to be trained in housekeeping.

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In the 1880 census of Crossroads township, Wilson County: farmer Prince Daniel, 67, and wife Absley, 44. Next door: farm laborer Isaac Daniel, 23 (who was probably Prince and Ansley’s son); his wife Zilla, 24; and their daughters Virginia, 5, Ella Jane, 3, and Mobelia, 3 months.)

United States Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939, database at https://familysearch.org.

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