When Daniel Marion Poteet was born on 19 October 1851, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry Nelson Poteet, was 29 and his mother, Nancy J McMasters, was 23. He married Mary Ann Stewart on 13 September 1877, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Perry Township, Johnson, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 15 February 1906, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 54.