Full Name: Thomas Wisdom Daugherty
Birth date: December 28, 1835
Death date: June 19, 1914
Terms of Service
House,
9th Legislature
11/4/1861 - 11/2/1863
Biographical Notes and Resources
Other Resources
Confederate States Army; mentioned in biographical sketch of brother James M. Daugherty (born 1850), Volume I, pp. 168-173. "The Daugherty brothers all took part in the war. T.W. Daugherty was a member of the state legislature and C.C. was county sheriff, but they resigned to espouse the cause of the Confederacy. T.S. recruited a company for the Twenty-ninth Texas Cavalry, and commanded the company during the war," p. 171.
A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant and Captain, Company A, 29th Regiment Texas Cavalry, enlisted 4/24/1862 at Denton, mustered in 5/3/1862 at Camp Cooper, according to War Department memorandum. Thomas Wisdom Daugherty, death date 6/19/1914 in Taylor County. Widow Mrs. T.W. Daugherty, marriage date 2/2/1862 in Denton County. Pension File No. 39372, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958.
Ancestry.com .
Thomas Wisdom Daugherty, birth date 12/28/1835 in Texas County, Missouri; death date 6/19/1914 in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas; lawyer.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Thomas W. Daugherty (1835-1914), burial in Abilene City Cemetery, Abilene, Taylor County, with spouse Martha N. Daugherty.
Find a Grave .
Mentioned in obituary of Alex W. Robertson, Civil War Veteran, 1926. Daugherty commanded Company A, 29th Texas Regiment; his brother was Boone Daugherty of Denton.
Genealogy.com 2004.
Mentioned in biographical sketch of brother J.M. Daugherty, T.W. Daugherty, p. 352: "The second brother, T.W., was a member of the Texas Legislature, and left the legislative halls and raised a company in the 29th Texas Cavalry, under Colonel Demorse, and remained in command of his company until the end of the war, when he marched it home and there
disbanded it. He now lives at Abilene, Texas, and is one of the most prominent attorneys at law of that place."
Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent Territory 1895.
Mentioned in migration pattern of James Madison Daugherty. T.W. Daugherty born 12/28/1835.
Migrations.org 2004.
Thomas Wisdom Daugherty, "elected state representative in
1860 and 1862," son of James Madison Daugherty and Eleanor McGehee. "Daugherty Family Dynasty Spreads Across the Region," 6/14/2006.
ÓDochartaigh (Doherty) Clann of Ireland - Web Portal .
Biographical sketch and drawing, T.W. Daugherty, The Abilene Reporter, 10/21/1898, p. 12, crediting Abilene Public Library. Born 10/28/1835 in Wayne County, Missouri.
Obituaries, "Judge Daugherty Dies Friday A.M. Burial Be Sunday," The Abilene Daily Reporter, 6/19/1914, p. 1, crediting Abilene Public Library. "Judge Daugherty's Death: Accounts of Life of Former Denton Man From Abilene Paper," Record and Chronicle (Denton, Texas), 6/25/1914, p. 3, crediting Denton Public Library.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . 6/25/191410/21/1898