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.
