April 26, 1956
Transcribed By Pamela Vick
The following is a copy of
a letter we have recently sent to Mrs. Patton, at Portland, Tenn., who is
trying to trace her Donoho connection back to the Revolutionary War. We hope to add some other information to
that given below. The letter is as
follows:
April
21, 1956
Mrs. James D. Patton,
Portland, Tenn.
Dear Friend:
Your letter of April 17th
came to hand in due time and has been read with interest. I am sorry that I do not have a deal of
information relative to your branch of the Donoho family. I have the following on the descendants of
William Donoho, commonly called Billy Donoho.
William Donoho was a native
of North Carolina, and settled on upper Defeated Creek in Smith County, Tenn.,
in early manhood. He came to Tennessee
with his wife and several children. He
was a great bear hunter, Indian fighter and bee raiser. He settled on the present Jeanettie Donoho
farm, near the old Cartwright's school house on the upper part of Defeated
Creek. He died at the age of 106 years
of age, probably before the Civil War.
He married Jennie Jenkins, daughter of Roderick Jenkins and his wife, an
Indian woman, named Pack.
The sons and daughters of
Billy and Jennie were: Samuel Donoho,
married a Temples and later a McCoin.
Samuel lived a number of years in the vicinity of Bowling Green, Ky. John Donoho, another son of Billy and
Jennie, married Martha Brooks and removed to Texas; Rod Donoho, married Judy
Brooks, a sister of Martha; William Donoho, married Millie Davis; Nancy Donoho,
married John Slate; Talitha Donoho, married Joe Krantz; Polly Donoho, married a
Carter; and Jennie Donoho, married a Carter.
Samuel Donoho was the
father of: John Donoho, killed during
the Civil War by Buck Smith just above the present Pleasant Shade and within
300 yards of the writer's former home; Amelia Donoho, married a Thomas; Laura
Donoho, married a Claypool; Martha Donoho, married a Howell; a son or daughter,
who married a McAllister; Rid Donoho, married a Howell; and Sallie Donoho,
married Meredith Creasey.
John Donoho, the son of
William, married Martha Brooks.
Children of this marriage were:
Harvey, went to Kentucky, married a Bullard the first time, the writer
does not know whom he married the second time; Henry Donoho, married a Pate;
Champ Donoho, married a McClellan; Shepard Donoho, married a Wallace; William
Shelby Donoho, married Sarah Wallace; Amande Donoho; and Harriet Donoho, married
a Phillips.
Grandchildren of John
Donoho and his wife, Martha, included:
Charles and Hayden Donoho, sons of Harvey; "Squire" Donoho,
who went to Texas, and is believed to have married a Rogers; Lawson Donoho, who
went to Texas, married a Harwood; Belle Donoho, married a Kemp; Alice Donoho,
went to Texas, married Dr. Fisher.
These were the children of Henry Donoho and his wife, the former Miss Pate.
Champ Donoho and his wife,
a McClellan, were the parents of Cora Donoho, married Dr. Jesse Smith; and one
son or daughter, who married a West.
Shepard Donoho and his
wife, the former Miss Wallace, were the parents of: Martha, married a Lemons; John Donoho, married a Clay; Mary
Donoho, married a Huddleston; Bud Donoho, married a Carter; Joe Donoho, married
a Jenkins; Andrew Donoho, married a Herod; Luther Donoho, married Amanda
Canter; Olline Donoho, married Ernest Johnson; and Evie Donoho, married John
Crowder.
We have no record of the
offspring, if any, of William Shelby Donoho and his wife, Sarah Wallace Donoho.
Amanda Donoho and her husband, a McClellan, were the parents of Martha, married
a Hailey; Talitha, married a Williams; and Harve McClellan, married a Williams.
Harriet Donoho and her
husband, a Phillips, were the parents of:
William Phillips, Asia Phillips, married a Holladay; and Lon Phillips,
married a West and also a Williams.
Rod, named for his
grandfather, Roderick Jenkins, and his wife, Judy Brooks Donoho, were the
parents of: Anthony Donoho, married a
Borden; Lee Donoho, married a Dycus; Jack Donoho, married a Hudson; Harve
Donoho, married Rosann Hudson; Wade Donoho, married a McClellan, a Burton, and
a Maxey; William Donoho, married Jeanette Sadler; Patsy Donoho, married a Hudson;
and Emmaline Donoho, married Clayt Austin.
Anthony Donoho and his
wife, the former Miss Borden, were the parents of a number of children. We have the names of only four of the
children. They were: Squire Donoho, married a Whitley; John Donoho,
no further information; Mary Donoho, married a Whitley; and Rose Ann Donoho, no
further information.
Lee Donoho
and his wife, the former Miss Dycus, were the parents of: Alice Donoho, married a Grisham; William
Donoho, went to Texas, married a Hall; Hailey Donoho, married a Sadler; Amanda
Donoho, married a King; Josie Donoho, married Taut Robinson; Alvis Donoho, no
further information; Harve Donoho, married a Russell; and Evie Donoho, went to
Texas, no further information. William
Donoho, the son of Lee Donoho, and married a Hall, was the father of: John Donoho, Cora Donoho, married a Gaither;
Mazie, Bessie, Lillie, and Bronie Donoho.
Hailey Donoho and his wife,
the former Miss Sadler, were the parents of:
Radford, Baskell, Vera, Goldie, Sylvia, Dewey, Hershell and William
Donoho.
Harve Donoho and his wife, the former Miss Russell, were the parents of: Clio, Lloyd, and Lorene Donoho.
Jack Donoho, son of Rod
Donoho, was the father of: James
Donoho, of Portland, Tenn., married a Rogers; Haskell Donoho, married a Kerr;
John Donoho, married a Davis; Dr. Charlie Donoho, married a Hudson; Vallie
Donoho, no further information; Vira Donoho, married a McClellan; Lura Donoho,
married a Meador; and Charlie Donoho, maried a Hudson.
Harve Donoho, son of Rod
Donoho, married Rosann Hudson, was the father of: Kanzada Donoho, married Alfred House; Flora Donoho, married a
Hall; Genie Donoho, married a Russell and also a Davis; Squire Donoho, married
a Ramsey; Buford Donoho, married a Russell; Lute Donoho, no further
information.
Wade Donoho, son of Rod,
married three times as given above, but we do not know who the mother of each
son or daughter was. They were: Willie Donoho, married a Roark; Charlie
Donoho, married a Carver: Hailey Donoho, married a Hackett; Cancel Donoho, no
further information; Callie Pearl Donoho, married a Wakefield; and Minnie
Donoho, married a Hall.
William Donoho and his
wife, Jeanette Sadler Donoho, wer the parents of: Eskie Donoho, married a Huffines; Otis Donoho, married a Howard;
Hailey Donoho, went to Texas, married a Hughes; Johnnie A. Donoho, married
Lellie Canter; Alvis Donoho, married a Goad; Bessie Donoho, married a Powell;
and Bertha Donoho, married a Richardson.
William Donoho, the son of
Billy Donoho, married Millie Davis.
They were the parents of:
Roderick Donoho, married a Hudson; Betsy Donoho, married William
Kennedy; Maria Donoho, married a Dycus; Polly Donoho, married a Dycus, we
believe the same man that Maria married; Letha Donoho, married a Jones; Nancy
Donoho, married Larkin Dycus, a brother of the husband of Maria Donoho; Tabitha
Donoho, married Davis Jones, a brother of Letha Donoho's husband; Wade Donoho,
married a Jones, a sister of Davis Jones; Susan Donoho, married Newt West;
Margaret Donoho, married a Russell, a brother of the late Bide Russell, the
blind lady; Howard Donoho, married a McClellan; Thoams Donoho, married Polly
Ann Russell, a sister of aunt Bide Russell; Bevley Donoho, married a Holland
and went to Missouri; John Donoho, married a Dycus; and Millie Donoho, died
young.
Betsy Donoho and her
husband, William Kennedy, were the parents of:
Dick Kennedy, married a Kemp; Taut Kennedy, married a Russell and also a
Woodard; Mary Kennedy, married a Canter; and Millie Kennedy, married a Sutton.
Maria Donoho and her
husband, a Dycus, were the parents of:
Polly Dycus, married a Clark; Susan Dycus, married Willie Kemp; and
Tamzon Dycus, no further information.
Poly Donoho, who is believed to have married the same man that first
married Maria, was the mother of Maria Dycus, married a Jones; and Addieville
Dycus, married a Hudson.
Letha Donoho and her
husband, a Jones, were the parents of:
Willie Jones, married a Smith; Harve Jones, married a Smith; Fannie
Jones, died young; Millie Jones, married Lester Smith; and Dick Jones, married
a Smith.
Nancy Donoho, and her
husband, Larkin Dycus, were the parents of:
Alex Dycus, married a Huff; John Dycus, married a Spivey; Mary Dycus,
married a Hutchinson; Viallie Dycus, married Rufus Jenkins; and Rev. William M.
Dycus, a Presbyterian minister, of Gainesboro, Tennessee, who married a Huff.
Tabitha Donoho, married
first a Davis, by whom she had a son, James Davis. She married a Jones, by whom she was the mother of: Albert Jones, married a Evans; and Dixon
Jones, no further information.
Wade Donoho was the father
of: Maria Donoho, married the late Lee
Kemp, formerly of Difficult; Alice Donoho, married a Parmer; Ruthie Donoho,
married a Lambertson; Althie Donoho, married a Jenkins; and Mahala Donoho, no
further information.
Margaret Donoho and her
husband, Russell, were the parents of:
Melvin, Cassie, Carrie, Clyde, and Channie Russell. Howard Donoho and his wife, the former Miss
McClellan, were the parents of: Peyton
Donoho, married a Martin; Frankie Donoho, married Joe Shoulders; May Cleo
Donoho, married Frank Smith, and who now lives in Lafeyette; and Pearl Donoho,
married Kinchen McClellan, and resides in Franklin, Ky. Peyton and Frankie are now dead. On Saturday, April 28th, Frankie's grandson,
J. E. Shoulders is to be ordained to the full work of the ministry by Enon
Baptist church, some 12 miles north of Lafayette.
Tom Donoho and his wife,
Polly Ann Russell Donoho, were the parents of one son, Alvis Donoho, whose wife
was Jennie Grandstaff, with which couple the writer boarded at Dean Hill when
he taught his first school in the year 1910.
They were both dead. However,
their daughter, Grace Law, resides at present at Riddlton, Tenn. They had three sons, Carl, H. T., and Odell
Donoho. Another daughter is Mrs.
Lutrell Fauhl, of Long Beach, California.
Bevley Donoho was the
father of two children so far as our records show, Caswell and Minerva
Donoho. John Donoho and his wife, the
former Miss Dycus, were the parents of:
John Donoho, married a Russell; Julia Donoho, married a Carver; and
Mary, married a Cassetty.
In Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn., is buried Virginia, wife of Dr. E, Donoho. She died April 28, 1867, at the age of 39
years. The writer does not know who Dr.
E. Donoho was.
Charles Donoho, a solider
of the American Revolution, was buried in the old Donoho graveyard on a Goose
Creek farm some miles south of Lafayette.
The writer does not know who owns the farm at this time. Mrs. R. E. Garrett, of Dixon Springs, Tenn.,
furnished the original report to the author of the book where the record is
found. She is well informed and may be
contacted at the above address.
We do not know who the
father of Charles Donoho was, but would suppose that he was closely related to
the Donoho family of the Goose Creek section of Trousdale County. We are not as yet prepared to say if the
Trousdale County Donoho family is related to the Billy Donoho family.
A Miss Jane Ready, married
a Dr. Donoho, but we do not have the date or location of the place where the
families lived. The reference is found
in "Bible Records -- Tombstone Inscriptions," by Mrs. Acklen.
If any of our readers can
furnish us with additional Donoho information, we shall be glad to publish
same. At a little later date, we hope
to give some information on the Hudson family.
Sincerely
yours,
Calvin
Gregory