Danner Bobo Boyce Turner Mayes

My Great Grandmother
Mary Danner Davis
1867 - 1932

Lue Bobo Danner
My Great-Great Grandmother
Louisa Bobo Danner
1842 - 1921

My Great-Grand Uncle
Alfred Danner
1863 - 1963

My Great-Grand Uncle
Mack Danner
1859 - 190?

My Great-Grand Aunt
Laura Danner Reid
1871 - 1955

My Great-Grand Aunt
Francis Danner Howard
1869 - 1951

My Great-Grand Aunt
Mattie Danner Hockenhull
1873 - 194-

Danner, Bobo, Boyce
Panola County, Mississippi &
Union County, South Carolina

The Family of My Great Grandmother,
Mary Danner Davis

Great-Great Grandfather:
Edward (Ed) Danner

Born: c. 1832, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina
Died: September 15, 1876, Como, Panola County, Mississippi, age abt. 44
Spouse: Married Louisa (Lue) Bobo on Dec. 25, 1860
Other Biographical Info:

     ● Was born into slavery on Thomas Getzen Danner's
          plantation;
     ● Was believed to have some Indian ancestry;
     ● Was sold to Dr. William Bobo in 1859. Dr. Bobo took
          him to Como, MS, and Ed never saw his parents and
          siblings again;
     ● Left the Bobo Plantation in 1863 and joined the Union
          Army at Lagrange, Tennessee, where he became a private
          in the 59th US Colored Infantry. Click here to read about
          Grandpa Ed's service in the Civil War.
     ● Died of dyspepsia, a disease he contracted during his
          service in the Union Army.

Great-Great Grandmother:
Louisa (Lue) Bobo Danner

Born: January 21, 1842, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina
Died: July 5, 1921, Como, Panola County, Mississippi, age 79
Spouse: Married Edward Danner on Dec. 25, 1860
Other Biographical Info:

      ● Was born into slavery on Dr. William Bobo's farm in
          South Carolina;
      ● Was first married to Mack Ray, who was enslaved
          on the neighboring Ray farm, but was separated
          from him when Dr. Bobo moved to Como, MS in 1858.
          She and Mack had two children together;
     ● Was described as having very long hair, so long that
          she would often sit on;
     ● Although she didn't know how to read and write, she
          stressed education for her children and all of her
          daughters became school teachers. They taught at
          some of the earliest schools for Blacks in Tate and
          Panola County;
     ● Purchased 100 acres of land in Panola County in 1898.

The children of Lue Danner were:
Names	Year of Birth
Jim R. Danner	1858
Mack Danner	1859
Alfred Danner	1863
Alex "Elick" Danner	1865
Mary Danner Davis	1867
Francis Danner Howard	1869
Laura Danner Reid	1871
Martha "Mattie" Ella Danner Hockenhull	1873
Phillip Isaiah Moseley Danner	1875
Edward "Edd" Danner, Jr.	1876

Great-Great-Great Grandfather:
Jack Danner
(believed to be the father of Edward Danner)

Born: c. 1805, South Carolina
Died: after 1880, Union, Union County, South Carolina
Spouse: Married Betsy Fincher after the Civil War
Other Biographical Info:

     ● Was the oldest male enslaved by Thomas G. Danner Jr.
          from 1820 up until Thomas's death in 1855;
     ● Believed to have been sold to a local farmer before 1860
          to settle the Danner estate. Thomas's widow, Nancy Bates
          Danner, left South Carolina in 1859 with her sons and
          settled in Grant County, Arkansas, taking the enslaved
          people who weren't sold (Harriet Danner and her seven
          children) with them;
     ● Was the only Danner found still in Union County in 1880.
     ● Was a house carpenter, according to the 1880 census;

Great-Great-Great Grandmother: Clarissa Bobo
(mother of Louisa Bobo Danner)

Born: c. 1825, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina
Died: c. 1884, Como, Panola County, Mississippi, age abt. 60
Spouse: (There is evidence that she was married to a man named George Bobo during slavery.)
Other Biographical Info:

     ● Was born into slavery on David Boyce's farm in South
          Carolina;
     ● Believed to have had some Indian ancestry;
     ● It is believed that she was also known by the name Martha
          or Patsy;
     ● Was passed on to David Boyce's daughter, Margaret
          Boyce Bobo, wife of Dr. William Bobo, after his death in
          1831;
     ● Mother of at least 14 children - first two kids may have
          been fathered by Elijah Wilbourn;
     ● Dr. William & Margaret Bobo took her and her children to
          Como, Mississippi in 1858.
     ● She had siblings named Jenny Ramsey, Caroline Boyce,
          Frank Boyce, Richard "Dick" Boyce, Albert Boyce, Palina
          Boyce, Thomas Boyce, Mariah Boyce, and Priscilla
          Williams.

The children of Clarissa Bobo were:
Names	Approximate Year of Birth
Louisa Bobo Danner	1842
Eli Bobo	1845
Giles Bobo	1847
Jennie Bobo	1848
Sally Bobo Vaughan	1850
Caroline Bobo	1851
Hezekiah Bobo	1852
Frank Bobo	1853
William Bobo	1855
Palina Bobo Partee	1857
Alice Bobo	1859
George Bobo	1862
Richard (Dick) Bobo	1863
Annie Bobo Holloway	1865
Charles Bobo	1867

The tombstone of Clarissa Bobo's son, Hezekiah Bobo
Bethlehem Cemetery, Lincoln County, Oklahoma
Hezekiah Bobo died in OK in 1931. He and his family had moved there in the early 1900's.
Photo taken by John Lehr. Source: Oklahoma Cemeteries

Elijah Wilbourn, Jr.

According to family oral history, Louisa (Lue) Danner's father was white. Although his name was not known, one relative remembered a white half-brother of Lue named William Sanford "Sandy" Wilbourn who openly acknowledged their relationship. That clue helped me to determine that Lue's father (and possibly Eli Bobo's father) was Elijah Wilbourn, Jr.

Born: 1810, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina
Died: 1878, Como, Panola County, Mississippi.
Other Biographical Info:

     ● Was the son of Major Elijah Wilbourn (1763-1819) and
          Mary Roundtree (1772-1851);
     ● Elijah Wilbourn, Jr. left South Carolina and moved to
          Panola County, Mississippi with his mother, sisters and
          brothers;
     ● Major Elijah Wilbourn is a direct descendant of John
          Wellborn II, who came to Jamestown, Virginia on May 24,
          1610, on a ship built from the timbers of the Sea Venture.
          In 1609, the Sea Venture was wrecked by a hurricane on
          the coast of Bermuda. The Sea Venture is reported to
          have brought the first horses to America from England.

My Great-Great
Grand Uncle
George Bobo
1862 - 19--

My Great-Great Grandmother
Louisa Bobo Danner
1842 - 1921

Children of my Great-Grand Uncle, Alex Danner
Mack & Henrietta Danner

Son of my Great-Grand Aunt, Francis Danner Howard
Travis Howard
Founder of Howardsville, Missouri

Son of my Great-Grand Uncle, Mack Danner
Senator Edward Danner
Black Nebraska Legislator during the Civil Rights Era

Grandson of Francis Danner Howard
Elston Howard
New York Yankees