Our Civil War Ancestors
Elijah Nelson Doughty, 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company D
While doing research on my ancestor Elisha
L. Spalding's service with the 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company K, in the
Civil War, I had come across Elijah Nelson Doughty's diary of his service in the
11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company D, and read it with interest. Much
to my surprise, I was later contacted by Elijah's great-grandson Lloyd A. Nichols
who told me that we were distantly related through Elijah's
daughter Anna Doughty Gumm!
Elijah was born December 9,
1841, in Dryfork Preston Township, Jasper County, Missouri; he was 24 years old
during the time his hand wrote the words in his Diary. He lived forty-three more
years, and died April 27, 1908, at Forgan, Beaver County, Oklahoma, where he is
buried. Elijah kept a diary of his experiences during the
civil war that is available here courtesy of the Kansas Collection at the
University of Kansas, and Elijah's great-grandson, Lloyd A.
Nichols.
Elijah is related to our family by marriage through his daughter Anna Gumm Doughty who married the son of Festus Gumm , Newton Gumm. For more information on the Gumm family descendants of Anna Doughty & Newton Gumm, click here .
Elijah's three daughters: Hanna Doughty, Anna Doughty Gumm, and Effie Doughty
All photos and information on this page are
published courtesy of Lloyd A. Nichols -- please visit his web site
for more information concerning the Doughty and related families.