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Sarah Perkins
✦ direct ancestor — my children's 5×-great-grandmother
· Woodall line, the Woodall–Ramsay side
— their mother's people
Marriage & children
SpouseWiley Dollahite
Mary Ann Dollahite (1826–1899)
Records behind this page
1850 U.S. census, population schedule, Harrison County, Texas, enumerated by J. W. Johnston, page stamped 139 (NARA M432; image via Ancestry coll. 8054)
1850 census, Harrison Co., Tex., p. 139, dwelling 288, family 288, lines 22-28; Ancestry coll. 8054 image 4191105-00142, rec. 1581793
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[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).
Typescript family history, 1971, by a grandchild of Ryal B. Woodall; FamilySearch "United States. History Records 1971", film 007831273 item 6 (119 images). DAR applications cite a work titled History of the Woodall-Dollahite-Miles-Kuykendall Families in East Texas. Compiled; derivative
Typescript 1971, pages 'The Dollahite Family' (image 35, ark ...HFP4-J), 'Grandpa Wiley' (ark ...HFPD-B) and 'DOLLAHITE RECORDS' chart (image 60, ark ...HF5X-Q)
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[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].
Research notes
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Research note · 16 Oct 2026
AUDITED 16 Oct 2026 - SARAH (PERKINS) DOLLAHITE, first wife of Wiley Dollahite. Named only by a 1971 family history (K1051, compiled): born 16 Sep 1799 in Tennessee, married Wiley on 9 Mar 1819, died 2 Oct 1854 in Texas. The 1850 census of Harrison County, Texas (K1055) shows Wiley's wife as S. Dolahite, 50, born Georgia, not Tennessee. That conflict is unresolved. Her marriage, which would be a Humphreys County, Tennessee, record, is lost with that county's marriages for 1809-1861 (K1056). She is attached as the mother of [6] Mary Ann at INFORMANT strength only (ProofMother=0). Her parents are unknown.
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