RLP 134: Daugherty Case Study Part 2

Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 134, the Daugherty Case part two. Welcome to Research Like a Pro a Genealogy Podcast about taking your research to the next level, hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogy professional. Diana and Nicole are the mother-daughter team at FamilyLocket.com and the creators of the Amazon bestselling book, The Research Like a Pro a Genealogists Guide. I’m Nicole co-host of the podcast join Diana and me as we discuss how to stay organized, make progress in our research and solve difficult cases. Let’s go.

Nicole (44s):
Hello everyone. Welcome to the show today. I’m Nicole Dyer, co-host of Research Like a Pro, and I’m here with Diana Elder accredited genealogist and my mom. Hi Mom. How are ya?

Diana (55s):
I am doing well. How about you?

Nicole (58s):
Good. We have been working so hard on our new book coming out. How’s it coming for you?

Diana (1m 4s):
Well, I’m working on a work sample for it. So I think our listeners have heard me talk a lot about my Rachel Cox and Benjamin Cox DNA project. And so I have a series of research reports and it’s time to bring that altogether into a proof argument. So that’s what I’m working on and that will be part of the book. So I’m really excited to bring everything that’s in my head and in the reports together in one document where I can show for sure that Benjamin Cox is the father of Rachel Cox. So that’s a fun project.

Nicole (1m 38s):
Yay. That will be a good feeling. Well, let’s continue on with our discussion of the Daugherty Case. Last week, we talked about the beginning steps of the Research Like a Pro process to form an objective, make a timeline, analyze the known sources and do some locality research. So I studied about Warren county, Kentucky, and my goal was to find the children of Robert Daugherty and his wife, Sarah Taylor. So the next step in the process is to create a research plan. Well, for my research plan, I took my timeline and I just kind of grabbed out of that, that known facts about Robert.

Nicole (2m 18s):
I didn’t put in some of the inferred parent-child relationships that other people had in their trees. I just put in what the evidence really showed about Robert, from what I had started with. Was that how you do your known facts?

Diana (2m 31s):
Yeah, I think that’s a great way to do it, especially when you’re starting with information that you haven’t researched and you’re taking it from other people’s trees putting in just what you know, for sure is a good way to start. And I do that. I like to take that timeline and take the most important facts from it and put it in a simple table just so I can refer back to it as I’m doing the research and remind myself of dates and places. And what I know

Nicole (2m 58s):
Agreed, well, summary of known facts just had the marriage record, the bond between Robert and his wife, Sarah in 1784. And the fact that Robert was a witness for the bond of the marriage of his possible sister, Sarah Daugherty, when she married James Taylor. And then I put in my known facts, some of the associates of Robert, including James Taylor, who could be his brother-in-law and James Neal who witnessed his bond as well. And the fact that Robert and James both signed with a mark on case that was important or useful later. And then the one marriage that I had found that actually stated the parent child relationship, which was Mary Daugherty when she married Jacob Romans and Robert Daugherty gave consent for his daughter to be married to him.

Nicole (3m 49s):
So I added that to my known facts. So I know Mary is his daughter, and then I know that he died before November 8th, 1843, when he was listed as deceased and his estate appraisal. So I also put a few things in the known facts from that estate record, that there was an unnamed widow left behind named Daugherty, and that the administer of the estate was Peter Daugherty. And the fact that Robert Daugherty owned theological book, which seemed to indicate that he was a Reverend of some sort, and that there were several other witnesses to the appraisement that could have been relatives like H McGinnis, Clawson neighbors, Phillip Romans, and Peter Daugherty.

Nicole (4m 31s):
So my known facts was pretty small. My timeline was pretty large, but a lot of the timeline was gathered from authored trees. So I just didn’t know how much of it was accurate. So I try to just go with what I knew was a fact what was accurate about Robert Daugherty. And then I could weave in some of that other information with the evidence after I found more data. So that was my known facts for the research plan and using that, it kind of informed what I would look at next. I wrote up the background information, just kind of what I learned from the locality research about the county and when records beyond there, the 1800 census for Warren county was missing. So I added a note about that. Then I wrote my working hypothesis, basically that Robert married Sarah soon after he signed the bond in 1784, that he probably had children who were born in North Carolina beginning soon after their marriage.

Nicole (5m 24s):
And then he migrated to Warren county, Kentucky by 1811, when his daughter Mary got married there to Jacob Romans. And I’m guessing also in my hypothesis that he might’ve had more children born in Kentucky. And I had seen in a family tree that maybe his first wife had died earlier, that he got married again. So I put that in my hypothesis to check out and I also put the he as possibly a Reverend and that he left behind an unnamed widow. So at this point in the project, I didn’t know the widow’s name. I found that later on my research. So then I listed out some possible methods that I could use to help me test this hypothesis.

Nicole (6m 5s):
And one of them was to really search through those census records from 1810 to 1840 and analyze those and correlate them with the household makeup and then search for marriage records for all the dirties and Craven county in 1800 to 1811, and then search for marriage records for Daugherty’s in Warren county from 1800 on because if his children were born starting in 1784, then they maybe could have been ready to get married by 1800. And then I also wanted to find the year of migration and the route that Robert Daugherty took from North Carolina to Kentucky because if you remember the purpose of this research project is to see if these could be the parents of John Robert Dyer, or maybe at least the mother could be his mother.

Nicole (6m 50s):
If Sarah Taylor was the mother. So I wanted to see maybe did they stop in Tennessee? Did they have any connection to Hawkins county Tennessee at all, where John Barbara Dyer was? And then I also thought it would be good to determine Robert’s denomination and find church records. So those were kind of the methods that I listed after I made my hypothesis. The next part of my research plan was to identify sources. So I just brainstormed all the different record collections at the FamilySearch catalog and the Ancestry that could answer some of those questions. And I found there were a lot of possible things that I had put in my locality like court records in a state records, and it did find some possible church type things, biography that history that might mention churches.

Nicole (7m 32s):
Mostly I focused on looking at the marriage record collections because I thought those would be the most useful and then court and estate records. So after listing out all those ideas, the last part of my research plan was to make a prioritized strategy. So I put these in order based on what I thought would be the most useful to do first. So since I had a record of his estate, appraisal and inventory, I thought I should just make sure that I have all the records that were created because of his death and his estate. So I wanted to check more records in Warren county for wills and any other court records that might’ve had something mentioned about his estate order books and any other court records.

Nicole (8m 14s):
I put another court record book from 1803 to 1865 on there, actually that was the collection title. And within that, there were certain volumes that I prioritize. So volume 13, 1840 to 1842 of those court records. I wanted to check that and then volume 14 through 15, which covered 1842 to 1848. So he died around 1843. So that was my first thing was more records about his estate and death, just to make sure I have all the documents that went along with that. Then the next step I wanted to do as a census study, where I correlate everything from 1790 to 1840, and really look at the household makeup. And then the next step was marriage records.

Nicole (8m 56s):
First I want to do Craven county, North Carolina, marriage records, and then more Warren county, Kentucky marriage records. I just wanted to make sure I had all the children who got married and see if they have any more connections to Robert Daugherty. And then my last prioritize step was Kentucky laws published about 1810 to find out more about what the age of consent was for marriage. And what was the age that Mary Daugherty got to be under when the marriage bond was signed in 1811, which required her father to give consent. So was it under 16 or was it under 21? I wanted to know what that was. So that was my research plan. What do you think?

Diana (9m 35s):
Yeah, I thought that was really interesting to have you go through all of that. And I liked how you did your hypothesis and then you had some ideas of what you could do. You know, you listed some methodology like searching census and marriage records, you know, just getting all of your thoughts and ideas down and then going through and identifying the sources from your locality guide, all the different things that you’ve found that you could search and then putting those into priority. And I think that doing the probate first is very beneficial. There’s so much more that can be found in probate records, sometimes send the initial records that we start with.

Diana (10m 17s):
And so really exploring all of those can be so helpful because you could have found a record that was the final administration enlisted all of his children right there. You know, I’ve got that for several different people. So you always want to go with that record. That could be the most beneficial for your research. And then of course the census study that is always so helpful and then the marriages in the two locations and the laws. So I think that was a really good priority of the research. Good job.

Nicole (10m 47s):
Well, the next step was to actually follow my steps and record what I found in my research notes and my research log. So I use my research project document that has my objective and the research plan to record my extended notes, abstracts and transcriptions, that can’t really fit in my spreadsheet log. And in the log I put an entry for each URL that I look at because I’m doing this research online and I put the URL and the source citation and some basic results and comments. So I started searching, I found some equity judgements in my first step and a court order that was really helpful in the order book.

Nicole (11m 32s):
So that order book that I looked in helped me answer a question that I had about who the widow was when I started the project. I just had that estate appraisal that mentioned the widow Daugherty, but didn’t say her first name. And I had seen him family trees that maybe the first wife Sarah had died before this. So when I found the order book, it was very helpful because it said that Sarah Daugherty, the widow of Robert Daugherty gave permission to her son, Peter Daugherty to administer the estate. And that was in 1843 and Warren county. So I was really happy to find that detailed record telling me, Peter was a son of the couple and that Sarah was the widow and since Robert married Sarah, and there was no other indication of him having another marriage, I could infer that this was the same, Sarah Taylor, he married back in 1784.

Diana (12m 24s):
Oh, that was a great find. I bet you’re excited when you found that. So great when you see actual relationships.

Nicole (12m 31s):
Yeah, it was great. Yeah. So these court books were digitized in FamilySearch and they had indexes in the front and sometimes in the back. So that was really helpful to be able to open up the image and not search through every page, but just look at the indexes that were handwritten in the front of the book.

Diana (12m 48s):
Yes. I always do that. And sometimes I found collections on Ancestry that have been indexed and they’ve only taken like one of the records. And so you miss everything else that’s in that index. Sometimes they’ll have the estate of an individual and then several page numbers listed where that estate is filled out throughout the book. So looking at those handwritten indexes is key to your research.

Nicole (13m 13s):
Yes. Another thing that I had on my research plan was to find a will, but because they were appointing an administrator, I figured he died intestate. I did check the will books just in case there was anything there. And it did have a will for Phillip Romans who was possibly the son-in-law based on the timeline that I made and what I saw in family trees. So I grabbed that data and transcribed some information from that. And I reviewed all the census records, 1790 and then 1800 was missing for Warren county. He wasn’t on the 17 or sorry, on the 1800 census for Craven county.

Nicole (13m 55s):
So I’m guessing he left before 1800 cause he wasn’t in Craven anymore, but I can’t check to see if he was in Warren yet because there was no census of Warren county for 1800. But then I did correlate the 1810 to 1840 census records with all of his other ones to figure out how many children he probably had. So then I searched the marriage records and I got a ton of hits for Daugherty’s getting married in Warren county. And I didn’t find any marriages at all. That seemed useful after 1800 in Craven, which further gave me the thought that by the time his children were old enough to be married, they had left Craven.

Diana (14m 31s):
Yeah. That’s such a common time period too, because by 1800 you have got the west opening up a little bit more and it’s post-revolution and the land there North Carolina was, was used up. And so you really see a lot of migration west out of that area to these new lands and Kentucky and Tennessee. So knowing a little bit of the history, you can realize that yeah, that makes perfect sense. Yes.

Nicole (14m 58s):
The migration time. So as I started searching in those marriage records of Warren county, I started finding a lot more Daugherty’s and a lot of them, I didn’t recognize their names and there wasn’t a clue to who they were. So I just started putting them all in my research log and figured I would sort it out after I gathered it all after I did that, I looked at the FamilySearch tree and other published trees to see what other people had concluded about who the parents of these Daughertys were and tried to figure out how they figured it out. So then I started separating the marriages by what the trees had said, and I put Robert Daugherty’s supposed children one and then Daniel Daugherty was the other person whose children were getting married in Warren county at this time and I put them in a separate page in my log.

Nicole (15m 47s):
Doing that helped me to have a starting point for figuring out who belongs to who. And then as I did that, I tried to look for clues and evidence that either confirmed that guess or made it so that I was wrong. And I did research on each person who got married to try to figure out more about them and added that to my log as well. So I ended up with 19 entries in my Daniel Daugherty sheet and the most of them stayed over 98 rows in Wayne Robert Daugherty sheet. So once I figured out that they were probably belonging to Daniel Daugherty, I didn’t do much more research on them.

Nicole (16m 27s):
And then the ones that I did find were Robert Daugherty’s children I focused on those. One of the things that was really helpful was correlating the census records from the census records. I could kind of see the family makeup of Daniel Daugherty and Robert Daugherty and see how many children they had and what gender they were. So that helped a lot.

Diana (16m 46s):
That’s a really good use of those early census records, because I think sometimes we wonder how to use those when you only have the head of household and then you’ve got the tick marks. And of course they’re super helpful because you have the makeup of the family and you can coordinate that like you did with the marriage records and other things going on. So censuses and marriage together, it sounds like helped you to separate out the families and really figure out who the children were for Robert Daugherty

Nicole (17m 15s):
It did. And then following these children forward in time after I found their marriages, that was another thing that I did to really cement the evidence and make sure they were in the right family. So after I finished my research log, the next step was to write a report.

Diana (17m 28s):
And I bet it was not that hard to write the report because you had taken such good notes in your research log and your research project.

Nicole (17m 38s):
Writing the report always feels kind of like the first time you’ve written it. Just because for me, it feels like I’m finally putting everything together in one place. And so I’ve had a timeline where I could see things in a certain way. I’ve had my notes of what the documents are saying, you know, like the transcriptions. And then I had my research plan, which kind of had a little bit of writing in it, which was the hypothesis. But now I’m finally just putting it all together. And it’s really such a useful tool for fully grasping in the state of the research.

Diana (18m 12s):
And it’s a finished product because it contains the citations from the research log, contains information from the research log, but organized in a way that it makes sense and helps you elaborate on those connections and really help your reader to understand all the different things that you figured out from this project.

Nicole (18m 28s):
Yeah. I put a table of contents because they had quite a bit of discussion of different things and I organized it kind of by record and topic. I started with Daugherty Widow. Then I talked about Peter Daugherty because it had pretty strong evidence about both of those people. Then I went into correlating different census records and kind of followed it through a timeline. So it isn’t chronological order telling the story of this family, how the daughters got married and Warren county, and then talking about the daughters and the evidence for them, and then continuing forward with the censuses and correlating that and ending up with that marriage of Anna Daugherty that I mentioned in the last episode, who I did find was the daughter and ending up with the 1840 census and the fact that Peter, the son never married, but there was some interesting information about that that I ended with.

Nicole (19m 24s):
So it was a long part of 17 pages. The first section is the objective and I allotted 30 hours for research and writing. So I put that limitation and then the starting point, I just bullet pointed all of those known facts that I had already listed in my research log and put the citations there. And then my background information, I added a map showing Warren and Butler counties and how they were neighboring to each other and how that’s kind of where the Daugherty Taylor families went. And then I went straight into findings and correlation and talking about the Daugherty widow and how, you know, there was actually an unsourced Find A Grave Memorial for Sarah Taylor Daugherty that stated she died in 1828.

Nicole (20m 5s):
So I really wanted to know, was she listed as that widow? And like I already mentioned, I did find that Sarah Daugherty was mentioned as the widow in a court order in 1843. So I contacted the person in that Find a Grave Memorial to, to say, where did you get this info? And are you sure it’s right, because I think she was still alive when her husband died. So I put that, and then I went on to Peter Daugherty and talked about how old he was based on some census records in 1850. And there were no other men with the same name. So it was probably just him and how there is direct evidence that he was the son of Sarah Daugherty from that court order. And then we can infer that Robert was the father. And this was another key piece of evidence that I figured out while I was writing that because that court order said that Sarah was the mother of Peter, we can know for sure that she was the woman who was married to Robert Daugherty when Peter was born in 1799.

Nicole (21m 4s):
So this wasn’t a second wife named Sarah. This was the same Sarah that he married in 1784 that was the mother Peter in 1799 that is listed as the widow in 1843.

Diana (21m 14s):
That’s so great.

Nicole (21m 15s):
It was great to be able to prove that the Find a Grave entry for her death in 1828 was wrong because this was the person that I was interested in the most, Sarah Taylor. And I wanted to know if she could have been the mother of John Robert Dyer. And one of the pieces of information that I had about John Robert Dyer is that he was an orphan when he got married in 1830. So if Sarah Taylor did die in 1828, that seemed to fit my story of what I was looking for. If she was still alive until 1843, it didn’t fit my story. So I needed to know,

Diana (21m 49s):
Oh, that’s a good point. Well, I want to point out here to our listeners that for your report, you did it semi chronologically. You know, you’re going to start talking next about the 1790 census, but you actually started with the death of Robert Daugherty. So you were starting with the person you knew was your person. And then you went back in time. Right?

Nicole (22m 14s):
I did. I started with the known relationships, which were his widow and his son, Peter, from that death information.

Diana (22m 20s):
Yeah. Cause I think sometimes we think we have to start with the earliest record always, but sometimes it’s better to start with like a will or a probate record or something, putting things in place and then to go back in time, every project is a little different with how you organize that report. It’s always good to outline it first and get your thoughts in order.

Nicole (22m 40s):
That’s a good point. I didn’t mention that, but outlining is really helpful. Sometimes I do that. I think this case I just started writing and then I moved the sections around to order them later. I do a lot of editing as I go and just kind of think, oh, this would be better up here. And I copy and paste paragraphs and put them where they seem to be logical. And sometimes you can kind of feel that you’re transitioning toward a record that helps that evidence to your current topic. So then I’m trying to decide like, do I want to put that here or is it going to be more logical to defer and talk about that later? So hard because evidence is so connected.

Diana (23m 14s):
Well, and the good thing about writing it in a word processing program is you can move things around. Sometimes it’s not till you finish writing it all out that you realize the best way to present the evidence.

Nicole (23m 25s):
Yes. So after talking about the widow and the son, Peter, I went to the 1790 census and started working on just correlating who all the people were. So in 1790, there was one male over 16 and one male under 16 and two females, which ages were not given. And so I figured the one over 16 was Robert the head of household and the one under 16 was unknown. I figured it could be a son that we didn’t know. I had already established that Peter was born in 1799. So it probably wasn’t him, but it could have been anyone: laborer, relative, unknown son. And then the females were probably the wife, Sarah, and one of their daughters then moving to the 1800 census, Robert was not found in the 1800 Craven county census, and the only Daugherty heads of household in Craven at that time had their name spelled a little different D O R I T Y.

Nicole (24m 23s):
And none of them were Robert and none of them were Daniel. And so I think Robert and Daniel had already left. There were a bunch of other people that were well as Elizabeth, the Richard Owen, who was probably their father Ephraim and William. And so I wondered if some of them were half siblings because their father Owen Daugherty had married twice. So I just figured that the second family of Owen Dority stayed in Craven county. So Robert’s absence from that 1800 census is consistent with the deeds that I’ve found for him while I was writing this report, I wanted to check cause I had one deed that was in a family tree. And so I wanted to check and see if there are any other deeds. So I did find that he sold some land again in 1797 and then another data in that same year.

Nicole (25m 8s):
So it looks like he sold his land and probably left between 1797 and 1800. So this was an on my research plan to check it. But I already had one deed from my starting point. So I just decided to go get the rest of them as I was writing the report. And sometimes that happens, you know,

Diana (25m 23s):
You’re writing your report and then you realize, wait, I don’t know this. And so that’s one of the values of writing the report is filling in the holes.

Nicole (25m 32s):
I know. And then I mentioned that there’s kind of a gap in census records for this family in the most important time when they were having little children. So because there’s no Warren county, Kentucky census for 1800, I just don’t know what their family makeup was like in those younger years. And then before you, in the 1810 census, we started seeing their children getting married. So my next section and the report is called Daugherty marriages in Warren county, Kentucky. So I just said to locate Robert’s children, every Daugherty marriage in Warren county was searched from 1800 to 1840. Some of the Daugherty marriages where the children of Robert’s brother Daniel. So before the project, Mary and Peter were already known to be the children of Robert and then by correlating census and marriage records with the state records, Robert Daugherty and Peter Daugherty, three additional children of Robert Daugherty were identified.

Nicole (26m 23s):
Two of them were already married by the 1810 census, daughters Sina and Betsy. So I didn’t mention this yet, but one of the ways that I could sort out all of the children, you know, cause there were so many marriage records for Daughterys. How did I know which ones were Daniel’s and which ones were Robert’s? And one of the most helpful things was looking at the names of the husbands of the daughters on estate records because on Robert’s estate record, a lot of his possible son-in-laws were the witnesses and people buying from his estate. So that’s how I kind of knew that these possible daughters are his daughters because their husbands Robert’s son-in-laws were buying from his estate and acting as witnesses and helpers in the process.

Diana (27m 4s):
Those are really good clues.

Nicole (27m 6s):
Yeah. The next part, it just goes through Sina Daugherty talks about her marriage and the evidence. And this is kind of fun because I found more about the laws as far as how old you had to be. So I found that Kentucky law required that fathers give consent on the marriage license and bond if their child was not yet 21 years of age. So for Sina’s marriage, Roberts consent was not mentioned on the bond. So I inferred that Sina was probably over 21 years of age in 1808 when she got married. And then I could use that to estimate when she was born. So if she was married in 1808 and was over 21 years, she was born before 1787.

Diana (27m 47s):
Well, that’s a great use of the laws. We hear that all the time that you need to use the laws to put some context to those records and every state did things differently. If you ever find the good reference for the laws, for the place you’re researching, make sure you save that because sometimes it’s not easy to find those.

Nicole (28m 6s):
It always takes me a bit of research to figure this out. What I ended up finding for this particular law book was an image copy on Google books for the statute law of Kentucky published in 1810. And it was a compilation of the law with notes and observations on public acts. Also including some information from Virginia because that’s where Kentucky was created from. So it was just kind of going through the history of all the laws up until then.

Diana (28m 37s):
And that’s the type of information you’d want to put in your state locality guide. So every time you’re researching a Kentucky, you can go straight to your link and not have to find it.

Nicole (28m 47s):
Yes. I need to take that footnote for my report and add it to my Kentucky state locality guide. Yeah. It’s funny how, sometimes as I’m writing the report, I realized that I needed certain things and so then I go find them. So the next section was about the daughter Elizabeth and she married Phillip Romans in 1808. The marriage was solemnized by Robert Daugherty because he could do marriages. Anyway, so the father on the bond gave consent. So Robert Daugherty, the father of the intended wife gave his consent, so we can tell that Betsy was under 21 so she was born after 1787.

Nicole (29m 27s):
So now I can correlate that with the 1790 census where there were two females and assume that the first female was the mother, the second female was the oldest daughter Sina. Then the third daughter was Betsy, who was probably not born until after 1790.

Diana (29m 39s):
And I noticed when you were writing this up, you did a little table of the 1810 census and the makeup of the household. And then you use the qualifiers was probably because we never can know for certain in these situations, if that is the exact tick mark for that exact person, even though it probably is, we still use qualifiers for the most part in our genealogy. Yeah.

Nicole (30m 6s):
Yes. Yeah. So I have quite a bit of discussion in this section on Betsy. I was with Betsy Daugherty and the Roman’s family, because the Roman’s family were close with the Daugherty family. And there was a Phillip C Roman who was mentioned on the appraisement bill and Robert Daugherty’s estate. And I really kind of wanted to figure out who he was. So I guessed that he could have been the son of Phillip Romans and Betsy Daugherty. And I found him on the 1850 census and found that his birth date occurred after the marriage of those two and that 1830 census for Elizabeth Romans included two males. So it could have been Phillip Romans. So I thought maybe her husband died.

Nicole (30m 47s):
So I just kind of put that in there. I didn’t know for sure, but that’s what I found. And I thought that showed pretty good evidence that tied the Roman’s family closely with the Daugherty family, that he was on the appraisement. So Elizabeth actually got married again after her first husband died. So I traced that forward in time to kind of figure out where she went and find her on all the census records and see what the census records of her later life said about when she was born. So I concluded that she was probably born about 1791, the 1792 based on her records later in life. So then she would have been about 16 or 17 when she married Phillip Romans.

Nicole (31m 29s):
Nice. So yes, like you mentioned, I did correlate all these marriage records and birth estimates with the 1810 census. And I just guessed that Robert was probably the male over 45 and Sarah was probably the female over 45, both born before 1765. And that Peter was the male aged 10 to 16, and that correlates with his birth in 1799 from the 1850 census. And then Mary was probably the one 16 to 25. And so since she was not on the 1790 census, she was probably born between 1790 and 1794. And then I had this one other daughter, probably the female aged zero to 10 that we don’t know who it is yet who was born in eighteen hundred, 1810.

Nicole (32m 11s):
Next, I decided to add the marriage of Mary to Jacob Romans here in the next section. And you will recognize the name Romans because two of the daughters seem to have married into the Roman’s family, Phillip Romans and Jacob Romans. One year after this 1810 census that daughter Mary got married and left the home. And we had already known about this marriage before we started. So I just mentioned this briefly and because Mary’s father was required to give consent, we can calculate that her birth happened after 1790 by taking 1811 and subtracting 21.

Diana (32m 47s):
So there’s something interesting in this record, in this record, Robert Daugherty actually signs his name. And I noticed in an earlier record back in the Carolinas where he signed with his mark. So it appears that somewhere, he got some education and learned how to write and you know, with him being a minister or Reverend now are performing marriages, but it just kind of makes you wonder what happened in between.

Nicole (33m 11s):
Right. I also noticed with his signatures that he always sees like a lowercase D for his surname, which I thought was interesting. And he spelled his name within a Robart.

Diana (33m 23s):
Yeah. Interesting.

Nicole (33m 24s):
Anyway, I did enjoy looking at his signature. So the next census was 1820. And by then I kind of decided that these older daughters are all gone. Then I’m just trying to figure out who’s left. So we have Robert Daugherty. Who’s probably the male over 45 years born before 1775. Sarah who’s probably the woman over 45, also born before 1775. And then there’s one more female left age 10 to 16 born 1805 to 1810. So who was this last probable daughter? Peter Daugherty was no longer living at home anymore so I looked to see if he was the head of household and sure enough, I found him all by himself in 16 to 25 with no other members of his household.

Nicole (34m 4s):
So there’s this other daughter that I haven’t decided who she has yet. There’s tons of marriage records, but some of them belong to Daniel Daughtery. So it was just trying to figure out which one is the daughter.

Diana (34m 17s):
Which one would make sense.

Nicole (34m 18s):
Then I looked at the next, which was the 1830 census. And we have, again, Robert and Sarah, I think they were listed as like age 60 to 69 and 70 to 79. And so I kind of wondered why Sarah was listed as being older. It could have been that she was born in 1760 and Robert was born in 1761.

Diana (34m 35s):
They could have been on the edge

Nicole (34m 36s):
It’s just a range. And then there was a woman age 20 to 29. So it could be that same possible daughter, just aging by 10 years born about 1801 to 1810. And then there’s a little boy aged five to 10. I don’t know who this is. I thought maybe he was a son or grandson. And if Sarah was 60, which would be the youngest for her range and the boy was five, she would have been 55 when he was born. And it’s not very likely. She was the mother of this boy. So I just put that it was more likely that he was a ward or a grandson. And he was probably more than about 1821 to 1825. And at first I was like, oh, is this John Robert Dyer? But now I know John Robert Dyer was not in Kentucky in 1830 census.

Nicole (35m 18s):
And he was born in 1810 to 1813. So it wasn’t him.

Diana (35m 21s):
Well, and they were getting old. Maybe they just hired a boy to help out around the house or in the farm, you know, chop the wood could have been a ten-year-old and just been working so many scenarios. I actually,

Nicole (35m 36s):
I found that he was enumerated twice in 1830 and the ages were a little bit different for the two of them. Sarah was 60 to 69 instead of 70 to 79.

Diana (35m 47s):
Oh, interesting. So sometimes they’re wrong. That’s why we coordinate all the evidence. And we don’t just rely on one record to tell the story. Yeah.

Nicole (35m 54s):
Those tick marks can be in the wrong place sometimes. Yep. Which is frustrating because you just wonder like, okay, can I base my whole case on this one technique?

Diana (36m 7s):
I know

Nicole (36m 7s):
Luckily, we usually can correlate several years. So the last part of these marriage records, I finally decided that this marriage of Anna Daugherty to John Manning in 1840 was probably this last daughter in the census records. There was a bond indicating John Manning was intending to marry Anna Daugherty. And Robert Daugherty did not perform the marriage. Maybe he was retired by then, but the rights of matrimony were performed by William Sublet instead, which was a neighbor. They were found on the 1850 census, this Anna Daugherty who married John Manning. So I found them in 1850 and Anna was 45 years old, born in Kentucky about 1805, which matches all those previous census years in 1810, 20 and 30 in Robert Daugherty’s households.

Nicole (36m 52s):
And when she died in 1880, she was buried in the Romans Spencer graveyard, which I thought was really good evidence, tying her to the Romans family who was so closely tied to the Robert Daugherty family.

Diana (37m 3s):
Yeah. You’ve got the FAN club running all the way through this.

Nicole (37m 7s):
And then I just had a little section with a little more evidence for this parent child relationship. I just had two bullet points of two more clues that gave additional evidence that Anna was the daughter of Robert. The fact that John Manning had purchased an item from his estate. And then the fact that John Manning was a surety on the estate administration of Peter Daugherty, which was Robert’s son. So finding that evidence, linking John Manning to both Robert and his son, Peter really was the nail in the coffin for proving Anna was the last daughter of Robert.

Diana (37m 44s):
I agree. Yeah. You always want to look closely at who purchased the items in the estate sales. They’re likely the neighbors, they’re likely the family and you want to figure out every single relationship that you can for those purchasers. So good job. That’s great.

Nicole (37m 59s):
Yeah. I didn’t get to really finish researching Anna Daugherty Manning all the way out to see if that possible grandson was her son like an illegitimate sign or something. But I wanted to add that to my future research, but the 1840 census showed that Robert and Sarah were all alone age 70 to 79 and age 80 to 89. And that they had an enslaved female with them age 10 to 23, which they had never had any slaves before. So that was interesting

Diana (38m 29s):
Probably again, someone helping around the house cause they’re getting pretty old. Yeah. That is interesting though, that they chose to rather than hiring servant or having a family member that they purchased a slave. I wonder if there’d be any bills of sale or anything to know where that female came from.

Nicole (38m 43s):
Good idea. I also wondered if Peter was the one who encouraged that because their son Peter had many slaves and actually, the very last section of my report talks about Peter and how he never married. And he lived alone in his first census in 1820. And then in 1830, he had two other people, a younger male who was age 15 to 19 and then a female enslaved person aged 10 to 23. I couldn’t find Peter in 1840, but in 1850 he was age 51. And he lived near a man named Andrew Jade Daugherty. And I didn’t know who he was. I just put in my future research to determine how they might be related, but he also had a few other people in his household.

Diana (39m 32s):
I bet you anything that, that enslave female from 1840 belonged to Peter because the estate did not mention an enslaved person. And if she had been property of Robert Daugherty, she would have showed up in that estate inventory because unfortunately the enslaved were listed as inventory. So I wonder if the son had just seen his parents needing some extra help and sent someone over to work on their place with them.

Nicole (40m 3s):
Yeah. And then the 1850 slave schedule, I found that Peter was on there owning nine slaves, including a female age, 42, and then a bunch of children aged slaves. I had heard a rumor from other Daughtery researchers that Peter married his slave or had children with his slave. And so when I was looking at this, I thought, well, could this slave who’s age 40 to be the mother of all these children by him because there’s an enslaved male age, 21 and enslaved 18 male age, 14 and 12, a female age, 10, another male age 10 and a male age seven and a male age six. And those were the slaves he owned in 1850.

Diana (40m 43s):
Wow. That totally could be at that does look like a family. He couldn’t marry her, but they could have lived together and had all of those children. Interesting.

Nicole (40m 52s):
So there’s quite a bit more to do on this family and flush it out. I really enjoyed finding all these clues and putting them into my future research back to that. Andrew J Daugherty who lived near Peter. One of my commenters in the study group mentioned as they read my report that maybe this Andrew was the 15 to 19 year old in Peter’s household in 1830, who, I didn’t know where he was. So there’s a lot of little clues here that I could continue working on.

Diana (41m 21s):
There is so much more research that could be done. Right? My question is what happened to all of his enslaved people in his household. If he died intestate, he didn’t have a chance to write a will. And the estate was distributed by someone. They went somewhere. So, oh, I sure would love to know what happened to all of them. That’d be interesting research.

Nicole (41m 45s):
I’ll have to do another phase of research on this because I’m still uncertain how the DNA matches descend from this couple are related to my Dyer family, right? It could be that they are just double cousins through the common ancestral couples of both parents of this couple. So Owen Daugherty and then the Taylor parents, which are Moses Taylor and his wife. So it could be that those are the common ancestral couples and there’s two. And that’s why they’re showing up as being closer matches then you would think, sharing 50 centimorgans and stuff, right. So I’m just going to have to sort out all these Daughtery and Taylor families one at a time.

Diana (42m 25s):
Yep. You’ve got a good start and you’ve got your research log and you’ve got this report. You don’t have to start over again. You can just do another project, maybe focusing just on Peter or whatever else you decide you want to do. So that’s the beauty of a research log and a report.

Nicole (42m 44s):
Yes. And when I wrote this report, I wanted to practice making a genealogical summary like you sometimes see in the NGSQ. So at the end, after I had proven all these children, you know, each one was kind of a proof summary or who was the child of Robert and Sarah. So at the end I did a genealogical summary of, you know, Robert Dyer was born such and such. She married Sarah Taylor on the stand and Sarah was born in this time, daughter of Moses Taylor and Elizabeth Probat and her death date. And then the known children of Robert Daugherty and Sarah Taylor. And then I numbered them, you know, Sina Elizabeth, Peter, Mary and Anna. And it was so fun to like write that summary after all of the evidence that I had found and put that into a succinct summary of the family.

Diana (43m 31s):
And it looks beautiful. I love how it’s very succinct and tells you exactly how you know, what you know, that’s great.

Nicole (43m 37s):
And then the last section was my future research. And I have about 15 bullet points here of different ideas of things to do. One of them was to find land and tax records for the Robert Daugherty family and to work on fleshing out the daughters a little bit more like John Beasley and Sina Daughtery in the 1820 census and correlating people in the Elizabeth Romans household with online trees to see if it matches up with her own children and just continuing on with all the children and tracing them forward.

Diana (44m 9s):
Well, this was a great project to really walk all the way through it. You know, we’ve talked a lot about the Dyers and the Daugherty’s and Sarah Taylor. And so it was fun to just go through a complete project and see how you took a couple that you leaned nothing about and really fleshed out their families and added a lot of proof to a lot of the relationships. So now, you know, you have a solid foundation for going forward with the DNA as well as future research. So good job.

Nicole (44m 35s):
Yes. And all you listeners who are interested in reading the final report for this base of the research, I will share that in the show notes. So you can click on the Google doc link or maybe I’ll post it as a PDF or something. And then you can go ahead and read it if you want.

Diana (44m 51s):
Yeah. I think that writing a report can be intimidating to a lot of people and breeding reports is a really great way to learn how to write your own. Kind of can get a feel of how you put things together when you’re trying to write genealogical information. So go read it and enjoy. It’s a great report.

Nicole (45m 9s):
All right. Thanks everyone for listening. We hope you got something out of that. And as always, if you would like to leave us a review that would help us so much. And if you have anything that you would suggest we talk about on the podcast, please email us because we’re always looking for new topics. All right, everyone

Diana (45m 29s):
Have a great week. Bye

Nicole (45m 23s):
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