Person:Daniel Wooten (1)

Lucinda had two brothers, Daniel and Moses. Daniel was drowned in the Feather River 1851 in Grass Valley, California when they came out for gold. source: Virginia Rose, a Wootan descendant

Daniel was in Youngblood's Regiment, south Carolina Militia-Private.

Wooten, Daniel Jameson, Julia Sept 5, 1832

The next settlers seem to have been Francis Garner and Daniel Wooten in 1833, Mr. Garner not moving his family until 1834, their claim (timber) adjoining. Mr. Garner built his cabin mid-way in the grove called Garner?s Grove, and Mr. Wooten near the near west side

1840 United States Federal Census about D W Wootan Name: D W Wootan Township: Rock Grove Precinct County: Stephenson State: Illinois

Articles from History of Stephenson County, Illinois p. 239 In Addition to those already cited as having settled in the vicinity of Freeport, the following persons, some of them with their families, came in and made claims at different points in the county: among other names Daniel Wooten.

p. 250 At the election this year the voters were more numerous than had participated in that held when the county was organized. For example, in Ridott Township, the election was held at Daniel Wooton's house, witht he host. At Wooton's house a barrel of whisky was provided, and frequent resorts to its contents had a tendency toe levate, if not inebriate the company.

p. 265 The amusements of the people, for by this time amusements had become more general, were naturally, by reason of the limited resources in their behalf, confined to a class of entertainments requiring preparations and expenditures by no means elaborate or extravagant. With some, dancing was a species of pleasure, indulged upon appropriate occasions, and there are a number of ladies residing in the county today, married years ago, who well remember the sharp, frosty nights, upon which they mounted a horse and galloped off through the brisk air to attend a dance in some distant log cabin or the inspiriting notes of a fiddle manipulated by Daniel Wooton, "Professor" clark, or musicians of equal skill and repute.

p. 515 Ridott Township That spring (1835/6), it is said, quite a number of settlers identified themselves with future Ridott, and bsides increasing the number of voters in that portion of the county, contributed materially to the promulgation of its attractions. Among these were Sawyer Forbes, Daniel Wooten, who settled one mile west of the present village of Ridott.

p. 516 In the fall of 1837, a girl was introduced into the household of Daniel and Julia Wooten, who was christened Margaret, and published as the first birth to occur in the township.

Ridott Village When the Galena & Chicago Railroad was completed through the township, a station was established about one mile west of the present village, and a town surveyed and platted. The place was named Nevada, after Nevada City, Colo., at which point Daniel Wooten, who owned the ground upon which the former place was located, died in 1849, while en route to California. (This was Nevada City, California, not Nevada City, Colorado.)