DOHERTY, JAMES HILL
, was born June 3, 1775, in Virginia. His father, Cornelius Doherty, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to America about 1760, settling in Virginia. He was married there to Mary Hill. They had twelve children--six of each sex. The family moved to Kentucky the year after Daniel Boone, and lived in the fort known as Estell station, for seven years. The son, James Hill Doherty, was married in 1819 in Cumberland county, Ky., to Mary Foster, who was born in 1794, in South Carolina. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1824 on Richland creek, near where Pleasant Plains now stands. They had one child there, and Mrs. Mary Doherty and her second child--Elizabeth--died in the fall of 1824. In 1832 James H. Doherty left Sangamon county and moved to Missouri, thence to Arkansas, and in 1836 to Decatur county, Tenn., where he died July 22, 1852. Of his two children--JOHN F. F., born Dec. 21, 1820, in Cumberland county, Ky., partially brought up in Sangamon county, Ill., continued with his father until 1842, when he left Tennessee for Texas. He returned two years after, and was married Oct. 22, 1844, in Decatur county, Tenn., to Elizabeth J. Maxwell, who was born Sept. 6, 1823, in Humphreys county, Tenn. They had one child born and died in Tennessee, and eight in Texas, namely: JAMES H., born June 29, 1848, in Rusk county, Texas, resides with his parents. MARIA L., born April 5, 1850, in Nacogdoches county, Texas, married Jan. 20, 1871, to James H. Hall, a native of Mississippi. They have one child, FANNIE J., born Jan. 20, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Hall reside in Coryell county, Texas, near Rainey's Creek postoffice. WILLIAM J., born March 17, 1852, in Rusk county, Texas, resides with his parents. ROBERT R. P., born Oct. 26, 1853, and died Nov. 28, 1874. JOHN P., born April 7, 1856, CHARLES F., born Aug. 3, 1858, and SUSAN M., born Nov. 28, 1862--the three latter in Nacogdoches county--and SARAH E., born Sept. 14, 1867, in Limestone county, all reside with their parents. John F. F. Doherty and wife reside near Rainey's creek postoffice, Coryell county, Texas, and twenty-eight miles from Waco, the nearest express office.
MARY, born Sept. 18, 1824, in Sangamon county, was married there, Nov. 30, 1847, to Charles W. Smith, who was born Jan. 31, 1823, in Overton county, Tenn. They have five children, NANCY, MATHIAS M., ELIZABETH, JOHN D. and MARY, who reside with their parents in Macoupin county, ten miles northeast of Carlinville, Ill.