John Martin Doty

                                      ┌── Benjamin Doty
                                      │    1689-?    
                    ┌── Edward Doty ──┤
                    │    1726-1806    │
                    │                 └── Hester Bemen
                    │                                
John Martin Doty ───┤
B: 1815 
D: 1894 
M: Sarah H. Jones
   ├── Theodore Doty (1844-1928) 1,2,3,4
   └── Patience Doty  5

John Martin Doty     [ID 00119] Click here to switch to Ahnentafel view: Ahnentafel View

Born May 17 1815, East Scioto Township (now Chillicothe), Ross County, Ohio.6  

He married Sarah H. Jones, about 1837.2,5,6  Sarah was born 1820.7  

Children:6,7

Emanuel M. Doty, born Jan 9 1839; died Nov 30 1902. 8
Theodore Doty, born Oct 28 1844, Ross County, Ohio; died Oct 28 1928, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. 2
Edwin Doty, born 1847; died Mar 30 1852, age 5. 9
Ellen Doty, born 1849; died Oct 28 1854, age 5. 9
Laura Doty, born Nov 22 1852, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio; died Feb 13 1924, Brinkley, Monroe County, Arkansas; married Alexander A. Diffey (children: Lena and Henry T. Diffey). 10
William Doty, born c1854 [1856]; died Mar 8 1857, age 3. 9
Charles Hirst Doty, born Aug 10 1857, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio; died Apr 19 1939, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio; lived in Newark, Ohio; married 1) Lillie G. Burkline, Jun 25 1885, Ross County, Ohio; 2) Florence Fisher. 2,11,12

In his youth, John trained as a saddler.  Following his marriage to Sarah H. Jones about the year 1837, he became a hotel clerk, first in Kingston and then at the Clinton House until it burned down in 1852.  During the Civil War, he was a sutler, helping to provision the Union Army in the Cincinnati/Covington, Kentucky area.  Soon thereafter he was elected a constable in Chillicothe and was briefly a justice of the peace.  He resigned both positions to go into the collection business, but was soon reelected constable, a post he would remain in for the next two decades.  Census records show he briefly clerked at another hotel for a while.  Bucking Ohio's trend at the time, he was active in Democratic Party politics.6  

Sarah died Mar 28 1877, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio; buried Lot E Block 4 Ser 5 Grave 2 (unmarked), Greenlawn Cemetery, 55 Mary Ann Street, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio.7  

John was shown in the 1869 city directory of Chillicothe, Ohio:13

Doty John M, h n s 2d b Mulberry and Hickory

After Sarah died, John moved in with his daughter, Laura Diffey and her family.  When she moved to Arkansas, he retired from his constable position and moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, to live with his son, Theodore Doty.  

John Martin Doty died Jan 31 1894, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio; buried Lot E Block 4 Ser 5 Grave 1 (unmarked), Greenlawn Cemetery, 55 Mary Ann Street, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio.6  


Sources

  1. Theodore Doty biographical sketch.
  2. Theodore Doty obituary.
  3. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47677902.
  4. History of Ohio, Volume V; http://www.ancestry.com.
  5. "The Mayflower Index", by William Alexander McAuslan; 1932, Boston, The General Society of Mayflower Descendants; Volume 1; GS366.009 M11 in a local library; also in the LDS Family History Library: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/252529 Also revised edition, Lewis Edwin Neff, 1960, The General Society of Mayflower Descendants: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89064055411
  6. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57149848.
  7. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57149938.
  8. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15086400.
  9. "Early Ohio Settlers", Ohio Cemetery Records, Burials in Chillicothe.
  10. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=76870508.
  11. Ross County, Ohio marriage records; http://www.ancestry.com.
  12. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62947163.
  13. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995; http://www.ancestry.com.


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