Bolden Riddick Doughtie

   Another name for Bolden was Bolling Riddick Doughtie.

  General Notes:

The 1860 Federal Census for Gates Co., NC records a Bolden Riddick (47-VA) (indexed as Rolden Riddick) with wife Sally (57) with children William (19), Mary (17), P. L. (15), and James (12). Next door is William M. (26) and Martha C. (26) Daughty with children Mary S. (4), Heber (3), and William (1). The 1850 census for Gates Co., NC records Thomas B. (37) and Sarah (47) Reddick with children William A. (9) Mary S. (7), Martha L. (5), and James R. (3). This may or may not be someone related to Bolden Riddick Doughtie...

Bolden Riddick Doughtie was known to many as B. R. His grandson and namesake did not like the name Bolden Riddick and went by B. R. just as his grand dad had done. I was fortunate to talk with that grandson, "B R" Doughtie, via telephone in 2002 (see notes on that grandson).

Bolden Riddick Doughtie was born about 1847 in Gates Co., North Carolina (around Edenton) but came to Nansemond Co, VA in his childhood on Feb. 15, 1852 according to a letter written in 1973 by Robert Bruce Johnson to Ethel Daughtrey Ellis. This fact had been researched by Bobby Jones [Robert Eldridge Jones] in 1973 and recently 2015) confirmed by this researcher on page 427 in the Nansemond County Personal Histories section of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illistrated; Special Virginia Edition written by R. A. Brock, Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, published in 1885: H. H. Hardesty & Co. Publishers; New York, Richmond, Chicago and Toledo [located digitally from www.ancestry.com]. In the piece on B. R. Doughtie it stated that he "is a native of North Carolina, as were his parents, William H. and Ann Elizabeth (Smith) Doughtie; but he has lived in Nansemond County since early childhood, coming here February 15, 1852. His paternal ancestry is English, and on his mother's side he is of Irish descent. In Nansemond county, December 1, 1870, the words were spoken joining his life with Cornelia A. Wiggins, and they have now five children, who were born: Lydia O., November 22, 1871; Almona (sic), June 17, 1874; Annie Christian, May 3, 1877; Wise Carlton, December 10, 1880; Lida O., March 25, 1884. Cornelia A., the daughter of Willis W. and Christian (Harrell) Wiggins, was born in Nansemond coutny November 22, 1848. Her parents were natives of this county. One child of Mr. and Mrs. Doughtie death has taken, Annie Christian. H. S. and Judson Doughtie the brothers of B. R., were soldiers in the 16th Virginia Infantry during the war between the States, and Judson gave his life for the Lost Cause., killed in Cumberland City, near Farmville, in May 1864. B. R. Doughtie has a farm of 167 acres of land southeast of the courthouse, in the Upper Parish of Nansemond, and his wife has another farm of 163 acres in the same location. His postoffice address is Suffolk, Nansemond coutny, Virginia."


The 1850 N.C. census, Gates Co. lists Bolden as Robbin: The 1850 Federal Census for Gates Co., NC page 25B records William (41-Wheel Maker) and Nancy (35) Doughtie with children Henning (14), Ann W. (12), Elnathan (8), James T. (6), Robbin (4), and Joshua (1).

The 1860 Federal Census for the Upper Parish of Nansemond Co., Va. (page 621) records William H. Dowdy (51) with his wife Nancy Doughtie (48) and children Ann (21), Nathan (17), James (16), Boldin (13), Joshua (11), and William (8). William is listed as a farmer and all family members are born in N.C. He is reasonably successful in that he has real estate valued at $3,000 and personal property at $1,300.

The 1870 Federal Census for Cypress Chapel, Nansemond Co., Va. (page 212) records William H. (61) and Elizabeth A, (55) Doughty with children Bolden (22) and William (18). Also in this census is Daily (30) and Elizabeth (9) Doughty. This may be the family of William's son, Nathan, who died in the Civil War.

The 1880 Federal Census for Cypress Chapel, Nansemond Co., Va. (ED#53, page 66B) records Bolling R. (34), Cornelia O. (32), Lydia O. (7), Alnona (6), and Anna C. (3) Doughte living in the Cypress Magisterial District. Mary Etta Miltiere (16), who marries Bolden after Cornelia dies, is living with her parents and siblings next door to Bolden, Cornelia, and family.

The 1880 Federal Census for Nansemond Co., VA, page 672, dated July 3, 1880 records acres of tilled land: 60, B, acres of wooded land: 167, B, Value of Farm Buildings: $500, Value of Equipment: $125, Value of Live Stock: $150, Cost of Buildings in 1879: B, Cost of Fertilizer in 1879: $29, Amount Paid for Wages in 1879: $300, B, Value of all Farm Productions in 1879: $346

The 1900 Federal Agriculture Census for Cypress District, Nansemond Co., Va. (District 24, page 54B) records B. R. (Mar 1847) and Mary E. (July 1867) Doughertie. Also in the household are Wise C. (19), Lida O. (16), and Luther C. (12). Cornelia had died in February 1894 and 18 months later Bolden married Mary Etta Milteer. BR's grand daughter, Inez Daughtrey Hagen, this researher's mother, recalled Mary Etta was referred to as "Cousin Ett".

The 1910 Federal Census for the Holy Neck District of Nansemond Co., Va., ED 12 sheet 2B in Holland Town, records a Mary W. Milteer, widow, age 76, with daughter Martha E. Milteer, age 46, living next door to Bolden R. Doughtie, age 65, and his second wife Mary E., age 43, and son Luther, age 22. The record indicates Bolden and Mary have been married 14 years and that Bolden is a lumberman and opperates a sawmill. A 1930s historical reference in the Library of Virginia records the J. M. K. Daughtrey home lived in by Lester J. Daughtrey as 1 mile northwest of Holland on Rte #58 then 1/2 mile southwest on Rte #651. Lester is living next door to Bolden in the 1910 census.

The 1920 Federal Census of Nansemond County, VA has Bolden and his second wife, Mary Etta, living near or on a road recorded as X [Cross] Roads and near the intersection of Holy Neck Road and Elwood Rd. Living with Bolden and Mary E. are his son Luther Carroll Doughtie and his family. The surnames are indexed as Daughter and Bolden as Balden. His obituary printed in 1921 reports his given name as Bolden Riddick Doughtie.

Doughtie is listed in various records as Doughte, Doughtee, Dowdy, etc ...

The Holland Peanut Company incorporated 1901 with Bolden R. Doughtie as president, T. L. Daughtrey as Vice-president, W. Carlton Doughtie as Secretary/Treasurer also Eley Daughtrey and David R. Roberts on the board of directors. (note - T.L. is Bolden's son-in-law, W. Carlton is Bolden's son, Eley is T.L.'s father, and David R. is the husband of Bolden's daughter Lydia)

Bolden's tombstone is located at Liberty Spring Christian Church, at the intersection of Liberty Springs Road and Whaleyville Blvd. in Suffolk, Va., and has no dates.
Lot 22 with family members:
Plot 1 - Leoni Austin Wiggins [sister of Willis H. Austin]
Plot 2 - Grandmother Wiggins
Plot 3 - Cornelia Wiggins [Bolden Doughtie's wife]
Plot 4 - Annie M. Austin [sister of Cornelia Wiggins]
Plot 5 - Charlie C. Austin [son of Willis Austin and Annie M. Austin]
Plot 6 - Willie H. Austin [wife of Annie M. Wiggins Austin]
Plot 7 - Bolden R. Doughtie

Current address for Liberty Spring Christian Church is
4213 Whaleyville Blvd
Suffolk, VA 23434-8803

Bolden married Cornelia Octavia Skinner Wiggins, daughter of Willis W. Wiggins The Younger and Christian Harrell, on 1 Dec 1870 in Nansemond Co., VA.²⁷ (Cornelia Octavia Skinner Wiggins was born on 22 Nov 1848 in Nansemond Co., VA, died on 4 Feb 1894 in Nansemond Co., VA and was buried in Liberty Springs Christian Church Cemetery, Nansemond Co., VA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Cornelia O. Wiggins
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Birth Date: 1848
Marriage Date: 1 Dec 1870
Marriage Place: Nansemond, Virginia
Father: Willis W. Wiggins
Mother: Austinetia [transcription error for Christian]
Spouse: Boling R. Doughtie
FHL Film Number: 2048463
Reference ID: 186

Bolden next married Mary Etta Milteer, daughter of William Francis Miltiere and Mary Ann Byrd, on 2 Jun 1895 in Nansemond Co, VA..²⁸ (Mary Etta Milteer was born on 18 Jul 1865 in Nansemond Co., VA, christened in (1st Cousin of Cornelia), died on 27 Oct 1937 and was buried on 28 Oct 1937 in Milteer Cemetery: Located in Whaleyville, VA.; From Suffolk.) The cause of her death was Pneumonia / T B.

  Marriage Notes:

Part of an email from Ginny Layman included documentation on the marriage:
Subject: Doughtie Genealogy
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Laymanrv@aol.com
To: lhagen@vt.edu
You will not believe what I stumbled across while looking for some Cutchin information. A few years ago while in the Clerk's Office in Suffolk, I copied down some Doughtie marriages (not knowing who they were) and ... look what I found in my marriage records book:
Husband: Borland R. Doughtie
Wife: Mary Etta Milteer
married 2 Jun 1895, Nansemond Co., VA


Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Borland R. Doughtie
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Birth Date: 1847
Marriage Date: 2 Jun 1895
Marriage Place: Nansemond, Virginia
Father: William H. Doughtie
Mother: Ann Elizabeth
Spouse: Mary Etta Milteer
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Birth Date: 1865
Father: William F. Milteer
Mother: Mary Ann
FHL Film Number: 2048463
Reference ID: 277