The Cochrane & Allied Families
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DOUGHTY, John Thomas
1841 - 1903 (61 years) Has 18 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
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Name DOUGHTY, John Thomas [1, 2, 3] Birth 11 Oct 1841 Laurel County, Kentucky, USA 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male FindaGrave Memorial ID 25475693 Land Laurel County, Kentucky, USA [4, 5]
- Purchased 120 acres of land on the Big Raccoon creek north of London on 12 Apr 1878.
- Purchased 120 acres of land north of London on 25 Aug 1883.
Military Service Civil War, Union forces, as a Private [1, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Along with his brothers Robert and James, John enlisted in the Kentucky 7th Volunteer Infantry Regiment for 3 years on 26 Aug 1861 in London, KY at age 19, and was enrolled into Company K. This regiment was organized at Camp Dick Robinson (KY) on 22 Sep 1861, and had its first engagement in his native Laurel County in the Battle of Camp Wildcat (KY), 21 Oct 1861. He was reported absent without leave in Nov 1862, and reported to have deserted two times: (1) Dec 1862 on a march from Cumberland Ford, TN to Ohio, and (2) Feb 1862 while enroute from Cincinnati to Memphis.
He did file for a pension on 3 Feb 1869. The pension index states that he also served in the Indiana 65th Infantry, Company K, and the Indiana 120th Infantry, Company I. This is also confirmed in Family Search records on the Internet, but without further details.
Occupation Farmer, Soldier (Civil War) [3, 6] Death 18 May 1903 Laurel County, Kentucky, USA [1] Age 61 years Burial Moren Cemetery, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA [10, 11] Address:
Moren Cemetery
Victor Mitchell Rd.
Laurel County, Kentucky
USA- Find A Grave website (http://www.findagrave.com/): Memorial #25475693.
Person ID I109 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 15 Aug 2025
Father DOUGHTY, James, b. 15 Jul 1804, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA d. 18 Apr 1884, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA (Age 79 years) Mother MANSFIELD, Sarah Julia, b. 13 Feb 1806, Knox County, Tennessee, USA d. 18 May 1852, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA (Age 46 years) Family ID F38 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BULLOCK, Mary, b. Abt 1847, Kentucky, USA d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 9 Oct 1864 McKee, Jackson, Kentucky, USA [1, 3] Age at Marriage He : 23 years - She : ~ 17 years and 10 months. Land 26 Nov 1897 Laurel County, Kentucky, USA [12] Sold 120 acres of land on the Big Raccoon creek north of London to Rosa DOUGHTY, their daughter, Children > 1. 
DOUGHTY, Margaret, b. Abt 1867, Kentucky, USA d. Yes, date unknown2. DOUGHTY, Rosa I., b. Abt 1869, Kentucky, USA d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F46 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 11 May 2016
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Notes - (Research):Civil War Records: Would need to pursue detailed Indiana military records and his pension application with the National Archives and Records Administration to learn how and why he went from the KY to IN infantry, which KY apparently did not know. - WWC IV Aug 2011
- (Medical):1880 - Was blind per the Census.
1890 - Suffered from chronic piles and diarrhea, and granulation of eye lids and optical nerve, as a result of his military service in the Civil War. [9]
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Event Map 
Birth - 11 Oct 1841 - Laurel County, Kentucky, USA 
Land - - Laurel County, Kentucky, USA 
Marriage - 9 Oct 1864 - McKee, Jackson, Kentucky, USA Land - Sold 120 acres of land on the Big Raccoon creek north of London to Rosa DOUGHTY, their daughter, - 26 Nov 1897 - Laurel County, Kentucky, USA Death - 18 May 1903 - Laurel County, Kentucky, USA 
Burial - Address:
Moren Cemetery
Victor Mitchell Rd.
Laurel County, Kentucky
USA - - Moren Cemetery, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S43] Ms. Marilyn Bryant, Personal Genealogy Research - Bryant, Marilyn, 30 Jun 2009, Personal research in various Family Group Sheets and "Descendants of James Franklin Doughty". Feburary 2008.
- [S219] Kentucky, Laurel County, Census - US - 1850 - KY - Laurel County (Ancestry), (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?htx=List&dbid=8054&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0: National Archives and Records Administration, 2009), 7 Sep 2011, M432, roll 209, Laurel County, dwelling 427, family 427, Doughty, James, accessed 7 Sep 2011.
Census, Laurel Co., KY - [S894] Kentucky, Laurel County, Census - US - 1880 - KY - Laurel County (Ancestry), (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?htx=List&dbid=6742&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0: National Archives and Records Administration, 1999), 2 Mar 2016, T9, roll 427, District No. 1, enumeration district (ED) 56, p. 28, dwelling 247, family 267, Thomas J. [John Thomas] Doughty, accessed 2 March 2016.
Census - Laurel Co., Kentucky - J. T. Doughty - [S199] Kentucky. Laurel County., Land Deeds - KY - Laurel County, 24 Apr 2011, Book H: pg. 246, Samuel Jones to John T. Doughty, 12 Apr 1878.
Laurel Co. KY Deeds Book H, pg. 246 - [S199] Kentucky. Laurel County., Land Deeds - KY - Laurel County, 24 Apr 2011, Book I: pg. 552, Samuel W. Jones to John T. Doughty, 25 Aug 1883.
Laurel Co. KY Deeds Book I, pg. 552 - [S206] Military Records - US - Civil War - Union - Compiled Service Records (Fold3), (Fold3. http://www.fold3.com/ : Copyright 2011), 7 May 2011, John T. Doughty (Private, KY Volunteer Infantry, Regiment 7, Company K), 11 pages, "NARA Record Group No. 94, Publication No. M397, "Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky"," Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 7 May 2011).
Doughty, John T. - Civil War Records - [S114] Fields, Mark, Internet - Mercer County, KY Genealogy, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kymercer/CivilWar/Union/7inf/7inf-v1.html : 1998-1999), 26 Jan 2010, accessed 26 Jan 2010), James F. Doughty, Private, Company B.
- [S214] Internet - Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), 27 Aug 2011, accessed 27 Aug 2011), 7th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
- [S217] Kentucky. Laurel County., Census - US - 1890 - Vetrans Schedule - KY - Laurel County (Ancestry), (Ancestry.com. "1890 Veterans Schedules"; http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8667 : 2005), 5 Sep 2011, London, enumeration district (ED) 75, p. 6, Doughty, John T.; digital images, Ancestry.com ("1890 Veterans Schedules"; http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8667 : accessed 5 Sep 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M123.
Census Special Schedule of Vetrans, Laurel Co., KY - [S895] Wm. Winston Cochrane IV, Cemetery Records - KY - Laurel County, 28 Feb 2016, 147.
Moren Cemetery Index. Doughty, J. T., Co. K 65 IND INF [no dates].Laurel Co. Northeast Cemeteries Index - [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 10 Mar 2013, accessed 10 Mar 2013<, Memorial #25475693, John Thomas Doughty.
- [S199] Kentucky. Laurel County., Land Deeds - KY - Laurel County, 24 Apr 2011, Book R: pg. 432-433, John T. & Mary Doughty to Rosa Doughty, 22 Mar 1864.
Laurel Co. KY Deeds Book R, pg. 432 Laurel Co. KY Deeds Book R, pg. 433
- [S43] Ms. Marilyn Bryant, Personal Genealogy Research - Bryant, Marilyn, 30 Jun 2009, Personal research in various Family Group Sheets and "Descendants of James Franklin Doughty". Feburary 2008.