Family:Jeremiah Daniels and Permelia Downing (1)

In 1807 Cyrus Downing built a cabin about a quarter mile from Alfred Ruggles, and Hawley Tanner built his cabin near that of Curtis. The Downing family had two children in their teens, George S. and Pamela. Mrs. Downing baked bread for the surveyors and boarded the mail carrier, Jeremiah Daniels. This young man made weekly trips to Cleveland. In that day it took a week to make the round trip when weather was bad. It is quite natural that Jeremiah and Pamela should fall in love. They were married at Huron in 1813.

C. P. Daniels, a son of Jeremiah Daniels, of Huron township, Erie county, was born in Huron county, in 1814. His father was a native of New York. C. P. married, in 1840, Laura Higley, and has three children—Clark, Riley township; George T., Wood county; and Chauncy A., Riley. Mr. Daniels is by trade a carpenter; he is also engaged in farming. He moved to Riley with his mother when thirteen years old, his father having died in Huron county. Of the children of Jeremiah Daniels, there are four—survivors C. P. Daniels, Riley; Sarah (Hinkley), Townsend; George, Riley; and Rachel (Higley), Michigan.