Joshua Daughtrey

  General Notes:

The Virginia Census of 1850 uses Daughtry ...

The Daughtrey family graveyard is located on the south side of Lee's Mill Road in Isle of Wight County, approximately one-half mile from the City of Suffolk (Nansemond County) line. --- SOURCE: Joyce Whitehead <joyce611@aol.com>
A contact with Nita Rawls Watterson in 2004 resulted in a visit to several Daughtrey and Rawls homes in the Holland area. Nita related many family facts and with her guidance we were able to visit the graves of Eli and Julia Anna Daughtrey as well as Joshua and Priscilla. A return visit in July 2007 allowed this researcher to update the status of the Daughtrey grave sites: Eli, Julia Anna, and their son, Elmer, are still across from Eli's home place at 1900 Jenkins Mill Road. Eli's home has been renovated and added to and is for sale. The grave yard is still overgrown with tress, shrubs, and vines but remains intact in the middle of a field several hundred yards off the road across from his home. Joshua, Priscilla, Theophilus, Joseph John, and Lillian are buried in a field near the long gone home of Joshua and Priscilla several hundred yards behind the Norfleet residence at 35004 Holy Neck Road (Also called Lees Mill Road or Rte 616). Careful examination revealed the broken headstone of Lillian Daughtrey with the recorded birth and death dates. Another two stones were those of Joseph J. Daughtrey. One was the headstone with birth and death dates and the other an honored remembrance and recognition of his service to his country during Mr. Lincoln's War. I attempted to clear off several other indentations but the areas appeared and felt like large flat pieces of drift wood rather than stone in the sandy soil ... perhaps an indication of coffins that were coming to the surface.

Joshua Daughtry is listed on the Muster Roll of Captain John Blunt's Company of Virginia Militia, commanded by Lieutenant Francis M. Boykin, in the Service of the State of Virginia from 23d June to 10th July, 1813 and from 28th August to 13th September, in the year 1814. His time of service is listed as 17 days.

The 1830 Federal Census for Isle of Wight Co., Va. records Joshua Daughtrey (30-40) with family: 2 males (<5) [Joseph John & Theophilus], 1 female (5-10) [Elinor], 1 female (10-15) [?}, and 1 female (20-30) [Priscilla]. Nearby is his father, Richard Daughtrey.

The 1840 Federal Census for Isle of Wight Co., Va. records Joshua Daughtry (40-50) with family: 2 males (<5) [Allan & Eli], 2 males (10-15) [Joseph John & Theophilus], 1 female (<5) [Margaret Jane], 2 females (5-10) [Martha Elizabeth & ?], 1 female (10-15) [Elinor], and 1 female (30-40) [Priscilla]. Nearby is his father, Richard Daughtry.

The 1850 Federal Census for Isle of Wight Co., Va. page 163A, dated Oct 17, 1850 records Joshua (55) and Priscilla (45) Daughtry and children Eleanor L. (24), Jos. J. (22), Theophilus (20), Elizabeth M. (15), Margaret J. (14), Eley (11), Allen (10), Acenitte (7), and Joshua T. (4). They are next door to Wm. H. (29) and Sarah L. (30) Cutchins. William will later marry Acenitte Daughtrey. Joshua has real estate valued at $350 and owns 1 slave, a 70 year old male.

The 1860 Federal Census for Isle of Wight Co., Va. page 373 records Joshua (65) and P. [Priscilla, listed as a spinster] (56) Daughtrey and children E. M. [Martha Elizabeth] (22), M. J. [Margaret Jane] (20), Eley (21), Allen (19), A. [Asenith] (15), and Joshua T. (11) living next to W. H. Cutchin (39) with wife S. L. Cutchin (41). Joshua has real estae valued at $1,500 and a personal estate valued at $500 (Joshua owned no slaves). W. H. [William Henry Cutchins] has real estae valued at $1,800 and a personal estate valued at $2,000, including 2 slaves ages 16 and 4/12. W. H. will later marry Joshua's daughtrey, Asenith Daughtrey [Aunt Senie to Emily Daughtrey]. Nearby in these census records are Thomas R. (38) and Harriet A. (28) Jenkins with daughter P. A. Jenkins (3). Also in the household is Fanny E. Daughtrey (22). Fanny is Emmeline Daughtrey and Harriet is Harriet Daughtrey, daughters of Joshua's cousin, Mathew Daughtrey (mentioned in Emily's Family History).

See general notes on wife Priscilla for 1870 census facts.

  Research Notes:

Joshua Daughtrey's death date, APril 6, 1868, came from a court records:
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=093-1871-003#img
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Complainants Joseph J. Daughtrey, Elizabeth M. Daughtrey, Margaret Jane Daughtrey, Eley Daughtrey, Allen Daughtrey, Assenath Daughtrey - all over twenty one years of age.
Your complainabts respectfully represent to the court and say, that Joshua Daughtrey died in said county on the 6th day of April 1868, Intestate, leaving a widow named Priscilla and seven children (your complaintabts) & three grand children - being children of his daughter Margaret E. L. who married Riddick Daughtrey & she being now dead & leaving three children to wit: Edward - Algernon & Martha P. Daughtrey all 3 children unbder the age of 21 years - as his heirs at Law.

On March 22, 1869 the Court of Isle of Wight Co decreed that theentire property of Joshua Daughtrey decd be awarded to Joseph J. Daughtrey for a sum of $500 "subject to the dower of Mrs Prissilla Daughtrey therein."

On April 27, 1870 Joseph J. Daughtrey paid the sum of seventy one dollars & 43c each as per foregoing ... signed
W. H. Cutchins
Elizabeth M. Daughtrey
Margaret Jane Daughtrey
Eley Daughtrey
Asenath Daughtrey
Allen Daughtrey
Elizabeth M., Margaret, Eley, Allen, Assenath, Jn J., and attorney retained for Edwin, Algernon, and Martha P. Daughtrey all received $71.43 in the settlement of Joshua Daughtrey's estate ... for a totla of $500. [7 X 71.43 = $500]

Joshua married Priscilla (Prissy) Holland, daughter of John David Holland and Betsy (Elizabeth) Daughtrey, about 1820. (Priscilla (Prissy) Holland was born about 1804 in Nansemond Co, VA, died on 6 Jun 1872 in Isle of Wight Co., VA. and was buried in Daughtrey Family Cemetery just inside the Isle of Wight Co. line on Lee's Mill Road coming from the City of Suffolk (old Nansemond Co.).)