Note: In  Charles Davis Daniel “ Heroes of Home Mission - A Man’s Job” - he talked about the stateroom where “Charlie and three of his brothers were to sleep” on their trip to Brazil in 1866.(So, that would include Charles Davis (Charlie) & Joseph Stephen Daniel and two others - “One of his little sisters sat lststless and still. Another sister became ill, and soon both died.”One of these little girls may have been named “Camilla”- there is a Camilla Daniel listed in the Passenger Lists.The loss of their young children took a huge emotional toll on both Joseph and Ann.They noted the moment of each childs expiration -to the minute. They died of smallpox & you could feel their agony at each loss. 

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https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/daniel-charles-davis

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DANIEL, CHARLES DAVIS (1856–1939). Charles Davis Daniel, a Baptist missionary, was born in Monroe County, Alabama, on March 17, 1856. At the end of the Civil War his father took the family to Brazil. During their seven-year stay, Daniel was educated by his mother and learned to speak Portuguese fluently. In 1872 he and his family moved to Navarro County, Texas. His father died three years later, and Daniel assumed responsibility as head of the household. In the summer of 1877, he joined the Bethesda Baptist Church of the Richland Association. He desired to teach but hesitated because of his lack of formal education and his responsibilities at home. He committed himself in 1880 to become a preacher and was licensed on July 31, 1881. In the fall of that year, he entered Baylor University with the financial assistance of Baylor president R. C. Burleson. He studied Latin, Greek, and Spanish, in addition to the standard curriculum. While at Baylor Daniel met his future wife, Lena Kirk, and gained ministerial experience at the Dawson and Lorena Baptist churches. On November 4, 1883, he was ordained. He graduated from Baylor in June 1885 and was married in San Antonio in November.

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After graduating he was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as a missionary to Brazil. There he pastored several Baptist churches and edited the Brazilian Baptist, a newspaper. Two of his children were born during that time. He remained in Brazil until 1889 when his failing health necessitated his move back to the United States. For the next ten years, he served churches in San Antonio and Mineola and did mission work among Mexican Americans. At the close of the Spanish-American War and the granting of Cuban independence by Spain in 1898, Daniel was appointed by the Home Mission Board to work as a missionary in Cuba. On the island, he reorganized and revitalized Baptist work, which had deteriorated during the war. The four western provinces of Cuba were under his authority, including the city of Havana. Daniel remained in Cuba through 1905, when he returned to the United States due to ill health.

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From 1906 to 1922 he was active in mission work among Hispanics in Texas. He spent the first few of these years in Gonzales and El Paso and later traveled around the state. In 1925 he returned to his former pastorate in Lorena, where he remained pastor as long as his health allowed. He was an active Mason for more than fifty years. On September 12, 1939, Daniel died in Waco after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, five children, three brothers, and nine grandchildren.

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Source:

The Confederados, Dawsey,  Pages 112, 113

Excerpted

...When the Southern Baptists began to send missionaries directly from the States, they still managed to tap into the emigre community.  Charles D. Daniel and E. A. Puthuff were appointed by the foreign mission board in 1885.  Daniel was a native of Monroe County, Alabama, who had lived in Santa Barbara for several years with his father.  The family had returned to America after his father's death, but Daniel spoke Portuguese well and had been infected with a romantic attraction to the country.  While attending college at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Daniel converted his best friend, E.A. Puthuff, to the cause of missions.

The two were inseparable, participated together as Masons, and finally settled upon a scheme to return to Santa Barabara together.  Daniel would work upon Brazilians, using his Portuguese, and Puthuff, who was already known to the American community in Santa Barbara, would minister to English-speaking settlers.  Puthuffmarried Emma Fox of Pickens County, Alabama, and the two couples rejected entreaties that they study for a time in the seminary.  Daniel maintained that his fluency in Portuguese would allow him to begin preaching immediately, while Puhuff was already an experienced preacher who would not need language training anyway.  A lenient mission board, anxious to respond to pleas for help from Brazil, waived its rule and sent the four missionaries on their ways.

Although they traveled to Brazil on the same boat, their destinations differed.  The board sent the Puthuffs to Santa Barbara and had a greater need for the Danielselsewhere.  After Daniel brushed up on his Portuguese, he took charge o Baptist work in Pernambuco.  He was able to preach extemporaneously in Portuguese and was optimistic about his work in Bahia, even though his wife had preferred to stay in Rio.  Almost immediately the Daniels began to request the board to send the Puthuffs to help them, but the agency needed them eleswhere.  As a consequence both families slowly became dispirited.  Bitter opposition from the Catholic population of Pernambuco turned Daniel into an Anti-Catholic fanatic who filled his correspondence with diatribes against "our Catholic soul, mind, and body murderers."  Though their purposes were carefully disguised in America, the real Catholic priesthood lived immorally and corruptly elsewhere.  Persecuted and ill, the Daniels finally left for Rio.

After a brief period of recuperation, they began work in Minas Gerais.  Daniel beseeched the board to allow him to organize missions in a new way.  He proposed an itinerancy scheme whereby he would hire a native worker to help him, establish a church in Sao Paulo, then move to Taubate to begin preaching.  Once that work was established, he would leave an unpaid Brazilian overseer in charge and move on to a new station, corresponding with his understudies through sermons and literature.

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The plan succeeded no better than his earlier efforts.  And he soon began complaining about the lack of support he received from the board compared with that received by the Methodists and Presbyterians, who were conducting their mission work with far better resources and skill.

Like the Daniels, the Puthuff's debts were mounting, their health suffering, and their morale undermined.  Conditions in Santa Barbara were worsening, and the mission board had trouble even paying Puthuff's salary.  He wrote from the community in January 1888: "I cannot remain here through another year of doubts and uncertainty."  The Puthuffs resigned that year.  Two years later the Daniels did likewise in a letter in which Daniel grieved.  If I had my life to live over again no one could induce me to come to the field until I had taken a thorough literary and theological course ." He had regretted"ten thousand thousand times" bringing his wife and son to Minas Gerais. 

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