Wiley Dollahite

[Read on the full-resolution image 16 Oct 2026 (register K1055): lines 22-28, columns name, age, sex, occupation, real estate, birthplace. No relationship column in 1850.] Dwelling 288, family 288: W Dolahite, 52, m, Farm, real estate 1500, born N.C.; S Dolahite, 50, f, born Geo.; E Dolahite, 18, f, Tenn; S Dolahite, 17, m, none, Tenn; S Dolahite, 14, f, Tenn; R Dolahite, 11, f, Tenn; L A Dolahite, 8, f, Missis. (birthplaces after E. by ditto).

[Read on the image 16 Oct 2026 (register K1050), this entry in full.] In the matter of the Guardianship of Benjamin F and Sarah E Halliburton: Willie Dollahite this day presented a transcript of his appointment as Guardian of Benjamin F And Sarah E. Halliburton from the County Court of Rusk County, State of Texas. Whereupon the Guardianship of said Benj. F. and Sarah E. Halliburton, which letters were granted at the December Term 1851 of this Court to R. B. Woodall be and are hereby revoked and said Wilie Dollahite is hereby recognized as the Guardian of said Benj. F. and Sarah E. Halliburton and is hereby authorised to remove the estates of said Wards to the State of Texas.

[Read on the image 16 Oct 2026 (register K1049), pp. 220-221, with the FamilySearch transcript of both images.] Called term, Rusk County Court, 1 December 1851, J. E. Glascock Chief Justice, James McWilliams Clerk. Your petitioner Will Dolhite a Citizen of Rusk County respectfully represents unto your Honor that Sarah Elizabeth and Benjamin F Halleburtin minor heirs of Benjamin Halleburton deceased are now in the County of Rusk and State of Texas and that they have no legal Guardian; he asks to be appointed guardian ad litem and for a copy of the order to send to De Soto County, Mississippi, to take charge of an Estate and bring it to Texas. Order: Willie Dollahite appointed Guardian ad litem of the said Sarah Elizabeth and Benjamin F Halleburton Minors, bond four thousand dollars. Bond, 1 December 1851: Wilie Dallahite principal, James Kuykendall and John Kuykendall securities, for the minor heirs of Benjamin F Halleburtin deceased one of the heirs of William Halliburtin late of the County of Desoto. No relationship of the petitioner to the minors is stated.

[Read on the image 16 Oct 2026 (register K1048), both pages in full, with the FamilySearch machine transcript. Spelling as written.] Estate of B F Halliburton. Transcript. The State of Texas, County of Rusk. To Honorable John C Miller, Chief Justice of said County of Rusk: Your Petitioner Willie Dollahite Guardian of the minor heirs of B F Halliburton would respectfully represent unto your Honor that the duty of Guardian of the said minors are such that he would prefer them placed in the hands of some one else and that he might be discharged from his present trust, and would recommend to your Honor R B Woodall as the most suitable person for said Guardian he being the step father of the said minors ... Willie Dollahite Guardian. Endorsed: Petition of Willie Dolahite, filed Jany 31st 1853, J. S. Swan C.C.R.C. County Court January Term 1853: R. B. Woodall appointed Guardian, letters to issue upon bond of Four Thousand Dollars. Bond: R B Woodall as principal and Willie Dollahite, Jesse R Rountree and John Kuykendall securities; approved January 31st 1853, John C Miller, Chief Justice. Letters: R. B. Woodall appointed guardian of the estate and person of Sarah E Halliburton and Benjamin F Halliburton minors under the age of Fourteen years, heirs of B F Halliburton deceased late of the County of De Soto and State of Mississippi. No relationship of Willie Dollahite to the minors or their mother is stated.

[Read 16 Oct 2026 (register K1051) on the FamilySearch transcripts of two prose pages, the chart on the image; the rest of the volume not read. Typed in capitals.] OUR GRANDMOTHER, MARY ANN DOLLAHITE, DAUGHTER OF WILEY AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF CORNELIUS, MARRIED, FIRST, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HALLIBURTON AND BY HIM HAD TWO CHILDREN: SARAH WHO MARRIED VIRGIL CALLOWAY AND JIM WHO DIED YOUNG. THE HUSBAND, B. F. HALLIBURTON, DIED IN 1848 AND OUR GRANDFATHER, RYAL B. WOODALL, CAME INTO THE PICTURE TO WOO AND WIN THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WIDOW SOMETIME IN 1849. ... GRANDPA WILEY DOLLAHITE WAS BORN ON JANUARY 15, 1798, IN NORTH CAROLINA AND MARRIED SARAH PERKINS ON MARCH 9, 1819. SARAH WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1799, IN TENNESSEE, AND DIED ON OCTOBER 2, 1854, IN TEXAS. GRANDPA WILEY MARRIED SECOND A MRS. ELIZABETH CALLOWAY AND THEY LIVED TOGETHER UNTIL HE DIED ON JULY 28, 1871. ... WILEY ALSO HAD A STORE IN HARMONY HILL AND HIS DAY BOOKS WHERE HE KEPT HIS ACCOUNTS ARE IN THE POSSESSION OF MRS. ED DOLLAHITE OF HALLSVILLE AND MRS. BILL DOLLAHITE OF DALLAS. ... THE CHILDREN OF WYLIE AND SARAH WERE: EVALINE, BORN 1 FEBRUARY 1820; IRENA, BORN 15 MARCH 1821; WILLIAM A., BORN 18 FEBRUARY 1823; JESSE PERKINS, BORN 11 SEPTEMBER 1824, DIED 8 APRIL 1864, AND MARRIED RACHEL KUYKENDALL; MARY ANN (SEE ABOVE), BORN 30 JANUARY 1826, DIED 7 NOVEMBER 1899, AND MARRIED, FIRST, B. F. HALIBURTON, AND, SECOND, RILEY WOODALL; NANCY J., BORN 27 MARCH 1827; CORNELIUS, BORN 15 SEPTEMBER 1828; ELIZABETH, BORN 29 MAY 1830; RUTH PARTHENIA, BORN 23 SEPTEMBER 1831; SAMUEL HOUSTON, BORN 8 MAY 1833; SUSAN, BORN 21 FEBRUARY 1835; REBECCA, BORN 16 OCTOBER 1837; AND LUCY ANN, BORN 15 JUNE 1841. ... B. F. HALLIBURTON AND MARY DOLLAHITE MARRIED IN DESOTO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, ON OCTOBER 7, 1845 [search snippet; that page not opened].

[Read on the full-resolution image 16 Oct 2026 (register K1052), one page, in full.] The last Will & Testament of Jesse P. Dollahite. In the name of God Amen. I Jesse P Dollahite of Smith County and State of Texas being still of sound mind and believing myself to be suffering with my last mortal sickness do make and ordain this my last will and Testament. Imprimis: All my Estate both real & personal I divide equally among all my children. Secondly: It is essential to the final and eternal welfare of my children that they should be brought up with & in a pious God serving & God loving manner and I ordain that this charge shall be placed in the hands of my Father Wiley Dollahite and the father of my late wife, John Kuykendol, and request that they should undertake the same for me. Thirdly: the County Court shall have no control over my estate further than the law absolutely requires. Fourthly: I appoint E. K. Kuykendol and Alva Kuykendol executors. Signed, witnessed and sealed the twenty seventh day of June 1864. J. P. Dollahite. Witnesses J. J. Adams, J. G. Copeland. No sister is named.