DOLLAHITE

MARY ANN DOLLAHITE was born on 30 January 1826 and died on 7 November 1899.(1)  She is buried in the Gum Springs Cemetery, just east of Longview, Texas.  On 7 October 1845, she married, first, B. F. Haliburton, a wealthy Tennessean, who died about 1848. After his death, she went to Mississippi enroute to join her family in Texas. She delayed her trip there, as her father wrote there was a scarlet fever epidemic in Texas.

It is thought that while in Mississippi, about 1849, she married, second, Riley Barber Woodall (see Woodall), who was heading west from North Carolina where he was born on 5 January 1828.(2)  They moved on to Texas and settled near her folks in the Nip and Tuck area, just south of Tatum.

Riley joined the Confederate Army and while on duty came down with "camp fever" (dysentery) in Louisiana. She went over and sneaked him out and brought him home, but he died shortly afterward on 5 April 1865,(2) and is buried at Harmony Hill Cemetery, just south of Tatum, Texas. Mary Ann was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy and during the war she turned her wealth into Confederate money. At the end of the Civil War, she had nothing, losing both her husband and her money.

Mary Ann Woodall and her five children went to live on a farm of her brother, W. A. Dollahite, which was five miles south of Hallsville. They lived in a large one-room log house and cooked over a large fireplace that was about 7 feet wide. James and William worked on the farm and helped their mother.

Mary had two children by B. F. Haliburton: Sarah, married a Virgil Calloway; and a son, James. The children of Riley and Mary Ann Woodall are listed under "Woodall."

Mary Ann was the daughter of

WYLIE DOLLAHITE was born on 15 January 1798 and died on 28 July 1871. He married, on 9 March 1819, Sarah Perkins who was born on 16 September 1797 and died on 2 October 1854. They are buried in unmarked graves in the Harmony Hill Cemetery. They lived in Tennessee and their fourth child, Jesse Perkins, was born near Memphis.

Later the family moved to Mississippi near Greenville and probably moved to Texas in the early 1840's.

The children of Wylie and Sarah were:(1-2-3) Evaline, born 1 February 1820, died 20 October 1901, and married, first, Charley Burton, and, second, Owen Kuykendall after her sister Nancy died in childbirth; Irena, born 15 March 1821, died 31 July 1893, and married B. Sims; William A., born 18 February 1823, died 4 September 1901, and married Tennessee C. McCollum; Jesse Perkins, born 11 September 1824, died 8 April 1864, and married Rachel Kuykendall; Mary Ann (see above), born 30 January 1826, died 7 November 1899, and married, first, B. F. Haliburton, and, second, Riley Woodall ; Nancy J ., born 27 March 1827, died 9 February 1847, and married Owen Kuykendall ; Cornelius, born 15 September 1828 and died in 1857; Elizabeth, born 29 May 1830, died 27 February 1903, and married Matthew Kuykendall; Ruth Parthenia, born 23 September 1831, died 9 November 1893, and married Frank Findley; Samuel Houston, born 8 May 1833, died 10 October 1902, and married Bobby Rogers; Susan, born 21 February 1835, died 30 April 1870, and married H. J. J eter ; Rebecca, born 16 October 1837, died 27 June 1912, and married S. B. Murphy; and Lucy Ann, born 15 June 1841 and married George J ones.

Wylie was the son of

CORNELIUS DOLLAHITE is said to have moved from North Carolina to Tennessee. He died in Tennessee at the age of 77.

Note: Family tradition tells us that the founder of this family came to America from Holland and settled in North Carolina. Cornelius is supposed to have been a son of the founder.(3)

Ref:

1. Gum Springs Cemetery near Longview, Texas.

2. Harmony Hill Cemetery, south of Tatum, Texas.

3. Letters-Bruce Liles, Oglesby, Texas, and R. L. Jones, Commerce, Texas.