CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: STOCKTON P. DONLEY - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

STOCKTON P. DONLEY.

Stockton P. Donley, of I'yler, was born in Howard county Missouri, 
May 28,1821.  He was educated in Kentucky and admitted to the bar 
in that state from which he removed in 1846 to Texas, locating in 
Rusk.  In 1853 he was elected dis­trict attorney, and was re-elected.  
In 1860 he removed to Tyler where he peririanently located and entered 
upon an ex­tensive practice.  In 1861 he enlisted as a private soldier 
in Col. Greggs' regiment.  He was soon promoted to a leuten­ancy and 
displayed conspicuous gallantry at the siege of Fort Donalson. In 1866 
he was elected to a seat on the Su­preme bench of the state by the 
largest number of votes that had ever been cast in Texas for that 
office. He filled this position with great ability and honor until 
removed in 1868 as an obstructionist by the military power. He 
resumed the practice of law in copartnership with Gov. 0. M. Roberts, 
and later with Judge John L. Henry.  He was first married in 1854 to 
Miss Judith Evans, of Marshall. Their son, Hon. William E. Donley, 
married a daughter of Judge Jno. H. Reagan of Palestine, and he is 
now a prominent young at­torney of Jacksonville, Texas. In 1867 Judge 
Donley married Miss Emma Slaughter of Tyler. Their only child, Emma, 
is the wife of James P. Broughton, Esq., of Tyler. Judge Donley died 
February 17, 1871.