According to family tradition Daniel was an itinerant photographer who would travel by horseback throughout WV and southwestern VA. There is very little in the way of records for Daniel: a possible 1860 Smyth County census record, a 1870 Tazewell County census record, an 1874 Tazewell County marriage record to Lenora Roland Farley, and the 1880 Walker Creek, Giles county, VA, census record where his wife Lenora lists that she is married, although Daniel's name does not appear on the census record itself.
According to family tradition Daniel was traveling for his photography job when he was thrown by his horse and died in the wilderness of West Virginia. No records exist of his death or burial, just those shared by Lenora to her son Lewis Breckenridge years later. After the 1929 fire in Bluefield, VA, that killed 4 of the grandchildren of Lenora Breckenridge, the Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph noted in its article that "Mrs. Woodworth's first husband is buried in the Witt Cemetery near Gray Sulphur Springs in Monroe Co, WV." Mrs. Woodworth was the remarried name for Lenora Breckenridge and her first husband would have been Daniel Breckenridge. Gray Sulphur Springs is on the WV/VA border just a mile east of Peterstown, WV, and it's impossible to determine which side of the state line it is in as there are no discernible markers or evidence of a cemetery.
According to family tradition Daniel was traveling for his photography job when he was thrown by his horse and died in the wilderness of West Virginia. No records exist of his death or burial, just those shared by Lenora to her son Lewis Breckenridge years later. After the 1929 fire in Bluefield, VA, that killed 4 of the grandchildren of Lenora Breckenridge, the Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph noted in its article that "Mrs. Woodworth's first husband is buried in the Witt Cemetery near Gray Sulphur Springs in Monroe Co, WV." Mrs. Woodworth was the remarried name for Lenora Breckenridge and her first husband would have been Daniel Breckenridge. Gray Sulphur Springs is on the WV/VA border just a mile east of Peterstown, WV, and it's impossible to determine which side of the state line it is in as there are no discernible markers or evidence of a cemetery.
According to family tradition Daniel was an itinerant photographer who would travel by horseback throughout WV and southwestern VA. There is very little in the way of records for Daniel: a possible 1860 Smyth County census record, a 1870 Tazewell County census record, an 1874 Tazewell County marriage record to Lenora Roland Farley, and the 1880 Walker Creek, Giles county, VA, census record where his wife Lenora lists that she is married, although Daniel's name does not appear on the census record itself.
According to family tradition Daniel was traveling for his photography job when he was thrown by his horse and died in the wilderness of West Virginia. No records exist of his death or burial, just those shared by Lenora to her son Lewis Breckenridge years later. After the 1929 fire in Bluefield, VA, that killed 4 of the grandchildren of Lenora Breckenridge, the Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph noted in its article that "Mrs. Woodworth's first husband is buried in the Witt Cemetery near Gray Sulphur Springs in Monroe Co, WV." Mrs. Woodworth was the remarried name for Lenora Breckenridge and her first husband would have been Daniel Breckenridge. Gray Sulphur Springs is on the WV/VA border just a mile east of Peterstown, WV, and it's impossible to determine which side of the state line it is in as there are no discernible markers or evidence of a cemetery.
According to family tradition Daniel was traveling for his photography job when he was thrown by his horse and died in the wilderness of West Virginia. No records exist of his death or burial, just those shared by Lenora to her son Lewis Breckenridge years later. After the 1929 fire in Bluefield, VA, that killed 4 of the grandchildren of Lenora Breckenridge, the Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph noted in its article that "Mrs. Woodworth's first husband is buried in the Witt Cemetery near Gray Sulphur Springs in Monroe Co, WV." Mrs. Woodworth was the remarried name for Lenora Breckenridge and her first husband would have been Daniel Breckenridge. Gray Sulphur Springs is on the WV/VA border just a mile east of Peterstown, WV, and it's impossible to determine which side of the state line it is in as there are no discernible markers or evidence of a cemetery.
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