| Notes |
- Peter Daugherty, son of Robert Daugherty, was born in Ireland in
1798. Genealogy research does not provide an explanation for his
birth in Ireland. His father, mother and siblings were natives of the
US and all died in KY.
Peter Patrick appears to have left KY as a young man and traveled
through TN into GA prior to 1824. He may have initially settled in GA
where he married a girl named Mary, who's last name is unknown.
Nowever, his first child, John Daugherty, was born in AL in 1825.
Peter must have arrived in AL within two or three years of the time
his uncle, Reuben, settled there. The presence of Reuben and his
family in Washington Co., AL probably was the reason Peter located
there. As is noted in the migration of Owen II's children to KY,
families tend to locate in the same areas, particularly in pioneer
times. Although Washington Co., AL was a large county, Reuben and
Peter both settled in the same small area of the county, the same
precinct or census area, near the Tombigbee River.
Interestingly, while in GA, Peter Patrick began a relationship with
a laborer, or mechanic, that would last the rest of his life. A man
named John Windham, born in GA, about the same age as Patrick, must
have traveled to AL with Patrick and Mary, and remained with them
until Patrick's death about 1860. After Patrick's death, John Windham
remained with Patrick's son, Willis, until John's death subsequent to
1880 when he was more than 80 years old.
In 1860 a school teacher, John McAmmon, who was born in Ireland
about 1815, lived with Peter Patrick. McAmmon appears to have been a
permanent resident and may have been there several years. Migration
of a school teacher from Ireland to Al must have resulted from a prior
association.
Peter Patrick and Mary started a branch of the Daugherty family in
Washington Co., AL, somewhere in the area of McIntosh where they
eventually had 12 children; John Daugherty, born 1825, Willis Earle
Daugherty, born 1828, Sally Daugherty, born 1830, Mary Daugherty born
1833, Martha Daugherty, born 1836, Patrick Daugherty, born 1838, Judy
Daugherty, born 1840, Patience Daugherty, born 1842, Benjamine F.
Daugherty, born 1844, Elizabeth Daugherty, born 1846, James Kelly
Daugherty, born 1849, and Edward Ocian Daugherty, born 1851.
The oldest son, John, appears to have settled around McIntosh, as
did the youngest son, Edward Ocian Daugherty. The second son, Willis
Earle Daugherty, who was my g-grandfather, settled some 15 - 16 miles
west of McIntosh at a place called "Tibbie" (from the Indian name,
"Okatibbaha"). Patrick's descendants remained in the two areas until
about the end of the 19th century when they began to relocate in other
parts of the country. Peter Patrick must have died prior to 1870
since he is not shown in that census.
(Source: Hal L. Daugherty - 2005)
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1798 - 1860 (62 years)