1881 personal census, Wallaceburg, Kent Co, ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
McDonald Daniel, M, Married, 33, born Ont, origin: Scottish, M Ch C, Store Keeper;
Nancy, F, Married, 29, born Ont, origin: Irish, M Ch C;
Clara, F, 4, born Ont.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 208-209:
Daniel P. McDonald (deceased), who took an important part in the upbuilding of Wallaceburg, County of Kent, was born at Port Lambton, Ont., Feb. 23, 1850, and died in Wallaceburg Oct. 25, 1886. He is interred in the beautiful Wallaceburg cemetery.
Mr. McDonald was a son of James and Nancy (McDonald) McDonald, of the County of Kent, Ont. During his younger years James McDonald was a farmer, but during the later portion of his life he was a general merchant at Port Lambton, where he died in 1898, aged seventy-seven years; his wife died in October, 1875, aged sixty-five years. They were members of the Methodist Church. The children born to them were: Frances, of Los Angeles, California, married to J. E. Melligan, a retired farmer; Daniel P.; and Fanny, of Los Angeles, California, married to Richard Melligan, a large ranchman.
On July 3, 1875, in Sarnia, Ont., Daniel P. McDonald was married to Miss Lizzy Bury, and they had children as follows: Clara A. married T. D. Tanner, a toolmaker of Albion, Michigan; Olin E. is a druggist of Detroit, Michigan; Lemuel H. is at home. Mrs. McDonald was born in Sombra township, daughter of John and Sarah (Ellis) Bury, of Brockville, Ont., and New York State, respectively, who came to Canada and took up a farm of 300 acres in Sombra township, where the father died May 1, 1896, aged seventy-six years; the mother died July 13, 1893, aged fifty nine years. Both were consistent members of the Methodist Church. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bury were: Lizzie, Mrs. McDonald; Mary A., of Bay City, Michigan, who married V. W. White; John E., who was drowned in the Detroit river Nov. 26, 1901; George H., a farmer on the old homestead; and Sarah C., who married John Stokes, a farmer of Sombra, and died May 9, 1903.
Mr. McDonald was reared upon a farm, but after his marriage he removed to Wallaceburg and embarked in a general merchandise business, in which he was engaged at the time of his death. In politics he was a Conservative, and he was very active in party matters, serving as a member of the town council for two years. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him. Fraternally he was a member of the I.O.O.F. and Encampment, and the A.O.U.W. His religious views made him a Methodist, and he served as a representative to conference and missions for many years, was also Sunday school superintendent for a long time, and was always interested in church work of all kinds. His life was a lesson to others and he died as he lived, a charitable, kind hearted, Christian gentleman, whose memory is tenderly cherished, and whose loss is mourned by those he has left behind, as well as in the community at large.
Daniel P.
McDonald
Clara A. McDonald ca 1877-
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