In 1841 the family left for the west and spent the winter in Terre Haute, Indiana, arriving in Keokuk on the 5th of February, 1842.
Mr. Daugherty died of cholera on board the steamer Kansas on the Missouri river, July 15, 1852. Mrs. Daugherty passed through all the trials incident to pioneer life and was ever a consistent member of the Methodist church.
At a meeting of Torrance Post, No. 2, G. A. R., at Keokuk August, 1904, a resolution was passed which read as follows: "Regarding the decease of Mrs. Daugherty this post desires to make recognition of the fact that a patriotic woman and mother of patriots, having four sons in the Civil war, has passed to her eternal reward. Therefore, be it resolved that in the passing of Mrs. Daugherty this community deplores the loss of one of its oldest and most highly esteemed members; honored pioneer settler and the nation an ardent patriot and supporter, and in recording the decease of Mrs. Daugherty we
hereby express and tender to our comrade and his family our sincere sympathy."
In 1841 the family left for the west and spent the winter in Terre Haute, Indiana, arriving in Keokuk on the 5th of February, 1842.
Mr. Daugherty died of cholera on board the steamer Kansas on the Missouri river, July 15, 1852. Mrs. Daugherty passed through all the trials incident to pioneer life and was ever a consistent member of the Methodist church.
At a meeting of Torrance Post, No. 2, G. A. R., at Keokuk August, 1904, a resolution was passed which read as follows: "Regarding the decease of Mrs. Daugherty this post desires to make recognition of the fact that a patriotic woman and mother of patriots, having four sons in the Civil war, has passed to her eternal reward. Therefore, be it resolved that in the passing of Mrs. Daugherty this community deplores the loss of one of its oldest and most highly esteemed members; honored pioneer settler and the nation an ardent patriot and supporter, and in recording the decease of Mrs. Daugherty we
hereby express and tender to our comrade and his family our sincere sympathy."
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