“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

DANIEL BECHTOL, of Garland, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, 
January 13, 1824, a son of Lewis Bechtol, a native of Berkeley county, 
Virginia.  The latter moved to Maryland when a young man, where he was 
married to Miss Catherine Williams, and they were the parents of twelve 
children, of whom Daniel was the eleventh child.  The father died in 1852, at 
the age of sixty-eight years, and the mother lived to the age of ninety-three 
years and six months.  Only seven of the twelve children lived to be grown, 
viz.: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Ringor; Catharine, the wife o Daniel 
Keafauver; Hannah; Mary M., wife of Peter Culler; M. M., wife of George 
Neykirk; John, who died in Ellis county, Texas; and Daniel, the only 
surviving son of his father’s family.

Daniel Bechtol was married to Miss Mahala Biser, in 1846, and they had 
seven children, namely: Lucinda F., wife of Edward L. Coblent; Mary C., 
wife of L. M. T. Flook; William H., who died at the age of nineteen years; 
John L., a resident of Ohio; Daniel W., Edward C. and Charles E., who live 
in Texas.  After his marriage Mr. Bechtol lived and farmed on the old 
homestead until 1874, when he moved to Texas and bought 310 acres where 
he now lives.  He had the misfortune to lose his wife the same year he came 
to this State, she having died October 25, 1875.  November 22, 1877, he was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Babington, and they were both members of the 
Lutheran Church.  His first wife was a member of the German Reformed 
Church.

Submitted by: Justina Cook