My Genealogy Hound

JAMES J. DAUGHERTY, farmer and stock-raiser, section 14, post-office Carthage, is a native of West Virginia, born in Lee county, Oct. 15, 1811. His father was a native of North Carolina, of Irish descent, being two generations removed. He settled in North Carolina in pre-revolutionary days. His father was one of the pioneers of Lee county, Va. Our subject was married at the age of twenty-seven, to Miss Nancy J. Flanery, also a native of West Virginia. He immigrated to Missouri in 1837, and settled on the Platt purchase, in Platt county, Mo., remaining five years, then removed to Andrew county, where he lived until 1867, when he became a resident of Jasper county. He purchased the farm upon which he lives, consisting of 160 acres. His wife died in 1863, leaving a family of ten children, whose names are James F., John P., Rachel (Mrs. W. Edson), Thomas J. (deceased), Sally A. (deceased), Emma (deceased), Mary L., (deceased), Charles M., and Archibald C. He was married Dec. 1, 1865, to Mrs. Polly Lawrence, a native of Virginia. Of this union there are two children, George W. and Jennie. Mr. Daugherty is a typical Missourian; has been a pioneer the greater part of his life, and experienced all the advantages and disadvantages of life in the early settlements. He has lived to see the grand State of Missouri progress by the spirit of energy and hand of husbandry from a howling wilderness to its present enviable condition.