 HILIP DAILY was
born about 1762, and was the son of
Charles Daily and Eleanor
"Nellie" (Temple) Daily. Family
notes indicate his family lived near
Pittsburgh, and that when his father
Charles died, his widowed mother Nellie
went to the fort at Louisville, Kentucky
with her sons and other Pennsylvania
families.
Philip
served as a private in the Revolutionary
War in Lieutenant Horatio Claggett's 3rd
Company of Maryland, a regiment commanded
by Colonel Ramsey. His name appears
on the roll dated February 1778.
He married
Mary Wise in Bullitt County, Kentucky and
lived at Fort Beargrass in Louisville.
Mary was the daughter of Valentine Wise
& Katie (Franz) of Washington Co.,
Maryland.
In 1796
Philip and Mary removed to Indiana and
lived in Clark County, in the town of
Charlestown. His name appears in
records of the Grand Jury for the April
and July 1801 term where he was sworn in
Inquest for the body of the County, and
was appointed by an act regulating
enclosure of the fort to view the fences
in the Township of Clarksville. His
daughter Mary's (Kittie) marriage to
Joseph Malott, is also recorded in these
early records of Clark County.
Philip and Mary (Wise) Daily
were the parents of ten children:
"Nellie" who married Hezekiah
Applegate; Elizabeth who married Daniel
Field; Jacob who was in the War of 1812
and married Thei Priam and 2nd Elizabeth
Barker; "Kittie" who married
Joseph Malott and 2nd Samuel Carr;
Charles was born in 1795 and died in
infancy; David Wise who married Mary A.
Shirley; Philip who married Dalia Athon;
Mary Ann who married Edmund David
Huckleberry; Eli who married Mary
"Polly" Tuell; and Charlotte
Temple who married James Boyer.
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