Wiley Dollahite
Wiley Dollahite was born in North Carolina in 1798, on 15 June by one account and 15 January by his family's. His memorial gives Caswell County. Two family compilations name his father as Cornelius Dollahite: an ancestor chart drawn in 1960 by Carr P. Collins Jr., and a family history of 1971. No record read states it, but Cornelius's own records follow Wiley's from Caswell County to West Tennessee.
On 9 March 1819 he married Sarah Perkins, who was born in Tennessee in 1799. He kept a day book, and the family copied the births of their thirteen children from it. They were Evaline in 1820, Irena in 1821, William A. in 1823, Jesse Perkins in 1824, Mary Ann on 30 January 1826, Nancy J. in 1827, Cornelius in 1828, Elizabeth in 1830, Ruth Parthenia in 1831, Samuel Houston in 1833, Susan in 1835, Rebecca in 1837 and Lucy Ann in 1841.
By 1825 he lived in Henry County, in West Tennessee. That July the county court named him overseer of a road, and Cornelius Dollahite's hands were among those ordered to work it. In 1828 he sat on a county jury and went bail for a neighbor. In the 1830s he and a partner sued John Prince in the chancery court at Huntingdon, both of them "citizens of Henry County." Cornelius died in the county before the end of 1838.
By the 1840s he was in DeSoto County, Mississippi, where the court named him an appraiser of an estate in 1844. His daughter Mary Ann married Benjamin F. Halliburton there and stayed behind with him when the family moved on. Wiley was on the Harrison Land District tax roll in Texas in 1846. By January 1850 he was living on 320 acres in Harrison County, and later he moved to Harmony Hill in Rusk County, near the Kuykendalls.
Mary Ann's first husband died, and she married Ryal Barber Woodall in 1849. In 1852 the DeSoto County court appointed Wiley guardian of her two Halliburton children, Sarah Elizabeth and Benjamin. Their property was ordered moved to Rusk County, Texas.
Sarah died on 2 October 1854. He married again, to Mrs. Elizabeth Calloway. In 1860 he was farming at Harmony Hill with $1,500 in land and $3,500 in personal estate, and he kept a store there. The Dollahites and the Kuykendalls were Primitive Baptists, the "Hardshell" Baptists, whose preachers had no seminary training and who washed one another's feet at church. Four of his children married grandchildren of Matthew Kuykendall.
He died on 28 July 1871 and was buried at Harmony Hill. His grave is marked by a hand-cut sandstone slab.
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Cite: Heirology, "Wiley Dollahite (1798-1871)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/wiley-dollahite-1798-1871-933a4e.