From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print.
Daniel and Mary Huffhines Doughty came to Dallas County in 1853 with other members of the Huffhines family. Daniel was born 26 Daniel and Mary Huffhines Doughty came to Dallas County in 1853 with other members of the Huffhines family. Daniel was born 26 April 1826 in Warren County, Kentucky. He was the eighth child of eleven born to Nancy Wright (born 2 June 1793) and Preston Doughty (10 March 1790 – 1852) who married 19 October 1809, her brother George giving security. The Doughty family history in Kentucky reads “Daniel Doughty married a Miss Hufflines (sic) of Franklin and went to Dallas. No record of children.” Daniel had married Mary Huffhines of Simpson County, the daughter of his first cousin Elizabeth Wright Huffhines and John Huffhines, Sr. Mary was born 7 January 1830.
On 15 August 1855 Daniel and his brother-in law George Huffhines bought 320 acres from F. W. Dunaway in his survey, paying $400.00 for this prairie land bounded by what is now Coit, Spring Valley, Maham and LBJ. Tax rolls show that at about the same time Daniel and George also bought 255 acres of the Hiram Wilburn Survey, lying on the east side of White Rock Creek, being the northern end of what is now Park Central. Purchase of this tract afforded them water for their livestock and timber to heat their homes. The deed transferring ownership by Preston Witt, dated 16 August 1858, shows a consideration of $1300.00.
Daniel built his home south of Spring Valley between Maham and Coit Roads. George built his home at the corner of what is now LBJ and Central Expressway. Daniel and Mary Huffhines Doughty had no children. To be nearer to school Cinderella, Mary’s youngest sister, stayed with the Doughtys, going home on week-ends. The Cottonwood School was located on the east side of what is now Maham near Kit Lane. When older, she walked with her brothers Robert Bruce and Duane from and to their parents home south of LBJ bet ween Hillcrest and Preston Roads.
With the unrest created by the coming of the Civil War, Daniel and George evidently decided to divide their jointly owned property. On 1 January 1861, Daniel and Mary Huffhines Doughty and George and Mary C. Wilson Huffhines signed deeds in the Dallas County Court House, dividing their two pieces of land. In the division Daniel and Mary retained the north 168 acres of the Dunaway tract, George and Mary C. keeping the south 152 acres.
Daniel enlisted in the Confederate Service. He was with Captain Morgan’s Company in Ohio, where he was captured. Kept in a northern prison for many months, he was sent to Richmond for exchange; becoming ill, was sent to a hospital, and never heard from again.
Mary Huffhines Doughty married 14 April 1866 James C. Heffington, a younger- brother of Nancy Heffington Huffhines who had married David Huffhines, younger brother of John Huffhines, Sr. Mary Huffhines Doughty and James C. Heffington had one daughter Mary Elizabeth (Mollie) born 3 October 1868. Mary, the mother, died 5 April 1875 before Mollie was 7 years old. James Heffington then married Susan Drake and had five children.
Mollie Heffington wrote her cousin George, son of George and Mary C. Wilson Huffhines, on 30 September 1885, “If you can possibly come to see me some time soon … I have something to tell you.” Two weeks later on 15 October 1885 she married John Edward Turner. To them were born on 13 September 1886 Charles Edward (Charlie) Turner and on 28 November 1891 Beatrice (Tot) Turner.
Charles Turner was Mayor of Dallas 1932 – 1935 and Chairman of Finance for the Texas Centennial, 1936, at the time of his death.
By E. E. Jackson, Richardson
