Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886

Daniel G. Harrison was born near Winchester, Franklin Co., Tenn., January 19, 1840, the second of ten children of David and Eliza (McCoy) Harrison. He is of English descent, and after remaining with his parents and attending the common schools until nineteen years of age he joined the sixteenth Alabama Infantry and served in the late war four years. He was wounded at Chickamauga and was disabled from duty one year. He was captured at Murfreesboro, but was soon exchanged at Richmond, Va. He was finally released from duty, owing to the wound he had received just prior to the close of the war. August 27, 1865, he was married, in Lauderdale County, Ala., to Sarah A. Dickson, daughter of Thomas Dickson, a prominent planter of that county. Mrs. Harrison was born in Lawrence County, Tenn., September 17, 1839, and is the mother of the following children: William T., Daniel M., David L., Lula E., Eliza E., Charles O’Connor, James K. Polk and Sarah A. Mr. Harrison is an old line Democrat and has been magistrate of his district for sixteen years. He has a fine farm of 240 acres, and is succeeding well financially. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Subject’s father was born in Virginia in 1813, and was reared by a uncle, his parents having died when he was a small lad. He came Franklin Co., Tenn., at an early period, and after sixteen years’ residence in that county moved to Alabama, where he resided until his death in the autumn of 1879. The mother is yet residing in Lamar County, Ala. She was born about 1821 and is a native of Winchester County, Tenn.

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Obituary
Daniel G. Harrison, 74 years old, died at 11 o’clock yesterday morning at the Masonic home. Mr. Harrison was born at Winchester, Tenn., January 14, 1840. He had been a member of the Masonic fraternity for fifty years. The body is at Leake’s chapel from which place the funeral will be held. Announcement will be made later.
The Montgomery (AL) Times, 23 Feb 1914, page 8

He moved to Alabama before 1900.  Late-life military records and his tombstone give the birth date of 16 January 1840.  He may have remarried and had additional children.

He applied for a Confederate pension in Alabama listing injuries at Chickamauga, but the unit record in the pension file reports him as a deserter in 1864.

A Daniel G. Harrison was appointed Postmaster at Mockeson, Lawrence County, in 1884.

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