John B. Daugherty was born in Green County, Indiana about 1830, the oldest son of Matthew and Sarah Putman Daugherty. While he was quite small the family moved to Missouri where his father, a veteran of the War of 1812, died. Mrs. Daugherty took John B. and his three brothers to live with other members of the Daugherty family, brothers and cousins of her late husband, north of Little Rock near the Caldron River.
With manhood approaching, John B. Daugherty left his family in Jackson Co., Arkansas, and made his way to Kaufman County where he lived with his uncle, Nathaniel Daugherty, who had come to Kaufman County before Texas became a state. About 1848 he invested in property of his own, the purchase said to have been for the whole family, and shortly after 1850, Sarah Daugherty and her other three sons and the wife of one themselves came to Texas, settling at Union Hill, near Forney.
With the Civil War's arrival, John B. Daugherty joined the Mustang Cavalry, 13th Brigade, Texas State Troops, a local militia organization which had a number of Daugherty names on its roster.
John married Lydia Jane Pike on September 29, 1861 in Kaufman county, Texas and they had a son Bailey born in 1864. Lydia died in 1865 and John B. Daugherty married Mary Mollie Baccus, May 3, 1866 and they had a son Thomas born and died 1867 and a son born in 1868 and died in 1870, John B. Daugherty died when Ada, their third child was less than four months and Mollie remarried to James Nathaniel Daugherty September 22, 1870
Note: copy of page 73 of History of Kaufman county,
John B. Daugherty was born in Green County, Indiana about 1830, the oldest son of Matthew and Sarah Putman Daugherty. While he was quite small the family moved to Missouri where his father, a veteran of the War of 1812, died. Mrs. Daugherty took John B. and his three brothers to live with other members of the Daugherty family, brothers and cousins of her late husband, north of Little Rock near the Caldron River.
With manhood approaching, John B. Daugherty left his family in Jackson Co., Arkansas, and made his way to Kaufman County where he lived with his uncle, Nathaniel Daugherty, who had come to Kaufman County before Texas became a state. About 1848 he invested in property of his own, the purchase said to have been for the whole family, and shortly after 1850, Sarah Daugherty and her other three sons and the wife of one themselves came to Texas, settling at Union Hill, near Forney.
With the Civil War's arrival, John B. Daugherty joined the Mustang Cavalry, 13th Brigade, Texas State Troops, a local militia organization which had a number of Daugherty names on its roster.
John married Lydia Jane Pike on September 29, 1861 in Kaufman county, Texas and they had a son Bailey born in 1864. Lydia died in 1865 and John B. Daugherty married Mary Mollie Baccus, May 3, 1866 and they had a son Thomas born and died 1867 and a son born in 1868 and died in 1870, John B. Daugherty died when Ada, their third child was less than four months and Mollie remarried to James Nathaniel Daugherty September 22, 1870
Note: copy of page 73 of History of Kaufman county,
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