Chambers County AlArchives Photo Document.....McGinty, Doriann D. & Howard, James S. Marriage License Nov 22, 1849 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. "Jerry" McGinty, Sr. http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00021.html#0005198 August 11, 2006, 5:13 pm Source: Chambers Co. Courthouse Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/photos/documents/marriage1048ph.jpg Image file size: 99.9 Kb Doriann D. McGinty Married James S. Howard Nov 22, 1849 Additional Comments: Doriann D. McGinty, daughter of George Washington and Naomi Elvira McGinty, b. 24 November 1833 in GA, (confirmed by the 1850 Chambers Co., AL and 1900 Parker Co., TX census and her gravestone), d., 5 May 1906, Hooker, Texas Co., OK. She married, (1) James Sterling Howard in Chambers Co., November 22, 1849. Jesse Carpenter, J.P., performed the marriage (marriage book 4, pg. 179/180). The original consent letter from her father reads as follows: "November 21, 1849, You are hearby informed that James Howard and Doriann D. McGinty has agreed to unite in weedlock and my consent given to the same. Said D. D. McGinty is my daughter. Your compliance will obl(idge). Signed, Washington McGinty." They show in the 1850 census of Chambers Co., pg. 367, James age looks like twenty- three and Dora, age sixteen. They are living next door to Franklin Carpenter and his wife Elisabeth who was Dora's sister. The special census of 1855 shows them living next door to her father, Washington McGinty, with two children under the age of twenty-one. We have been unable to locate them in the 1860 and 1870 census. They moved to LA and by 1869 were in AR. Howard died in 1873 (based on her obit., place unknown) and she returned to AL. She is shown in a document dated 1874 as an heir to her father’s estate. There is a Lee Co. deed dated May 20, 1879, showing her purchasing a ˝ acre lot (#36) from the Ingersoll family. Ingersoll was a big land holder in the area and subdivided some of his land into smaller parcels for the mill workers. She then shows in the 1880 census of Lee Co., AL, pg. 231B, as head of household, age forty-six, widow, occupation, "keeping house". Her children are also listed in this census as Amanda L., age twenty; Frances E., “Fannie“., age eighteen; Emma L., age seventeen, Millie A., age fifteen and Benjamin F., age twelve. All of them are shown as working in the cotton mill. Amanda, Frances and Emma were born in LA, which places the parents there between 1861-1863. Millie is shown as being born in 1865, in GA , however, the 1900 census of Parker Co., TX, shows her born in July, 1865, in LA. Son, Benjamin was born in Emmet, AR, July 5, 1869 (1900 - 1930 census records and his death certificate). Daughter, Emma married James M. Williams, 1 September 1881, in Muskogee Co., GA. Doriann married, (2) William E. Hughes, March 27, 1883 in Brownville, Lee Co., AL, which later became Phenix City, AL. The marriage was performed by William Lively and the marriage license reads, "Married by me at Mrs. Dora Howard's (house in), Brownville." They continued to live on Doriann’s 1879 land, and she sold it in a deed dated 1889, to L.W. Edwards (book A-10, pg. 468). Hughes died, September 19, 1895. Doriann and part of her family, then moved to Agnes, TX and she shows in the 1900 census of Parker Co., pg. 141 A, as head-of-household, age sixty-six. Her son, Benjamin F. Howard is living with her. Her daughter, Millie A., who married Frank Boland in AR in 1890, is living with them in a rented house. Benjamin F. is then found in the 1910-1930 census, living, with wife, Emma and family in Texas Co., OK. Millie is found with Frank in the 1910 census of Pushmataha Co., OK. Frances “Fannie,” married Dempsey Allen Jeffus, January 2, 1898, and shows with him in the 1900 census of Parker Co., TX. She died in 1933 and I have her death certificate. It is interesting to note that in this 1900 census, Doriann shows that her mother was born in SC. While it is true that her father married Elizabeth Northrop, who was from SC, in 1838, her actual mother, according to two of her brothers and sisters, was Naomi Elvira who was born in Illinois. In the 1900 census, Doriann shows that she had eight children and that five were surviving at the time of the census. Only five of her children have been identified and they were all born after 1860. Since she married Howard in 1849, the other three children were born to them before 1860. The 1855 special census of AL shows them with two children under the age of twenty-one. This accounts for two of them and the third must have been born between 1855 and 1860. Their names are as yet unknown. Dora is buried in block 1, lot 24, at the Hooker Cemetery, Hooker, Texas Co., OK. Her gravestone reads, ”Our Mother at Rest.” Her obituary, written by Rev. John J. Willis and published in the Hooker Advance, May 11, 1906, page five, reads as follows: “Taken to her Reward Mrs. D. A. Hughes of Fernwood, this county, died Saturday, May 5, 1906, at her home. Mrs. Hughes was married to J. S. Howard in 1849: he died in 1873. She was again married to W. E. Hughes, who died Sept. 19, 1895. She was the mother of eight children, five girls and three boys, five of whom are still living to mourn the departure of a loving mother. She was for many years a living example of the faith she professed in Christ, having united with the Missionary Baptist church in Chambers county, Alabama in the year of 1866, and has ever since lived the life of a child redeemed from sin: her life's work was for the betterment of humanity and praising God. She came to Beaver County the 29th day of November, 1905, and built a home near Fernwood, this county, with hopes of the success of the future of this country. She passed away in the presence of two of her children and a host of loving friends on Saturday night, May 5, 1906, and was therefore 72 years, 5 months and 12 days old. She was interred in the Hooker Cemetery on Monday, May 7th, at 3 p. m.; the funeral services were conducted by the writer (lesson, 9th psalm-text, Job 14-14) at the cemetery, with a few friends and relatives present. She was old, she passed the line Of years three score and ten. She was true and kept in mind that life on earth would end. Prepared she waited for the summons, come! To meet her God above In that, the bright celestial home, Where god and all are perfect love.” Additional Comments: Also post in Lee Co., AL File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/photos/documents/marriage1048ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb