O'DANIEL, TX

O'DANIEL, TEXAS. O'Daniel, twelve miles south of Seguin in southern Guadalupe County, was named for John N. O'Daniel, a teacher. A post office opened in 1886. By the 1890s the community had two cotton gins, four churches, a general store, and a population of 450. The post office was discontinued in 1905, and by the 1940s there was no evidence of the community on county highway maps.

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Guadalupe County Scrapbook, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "O'DANIEL, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hro31), accessed May 21, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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