Minerva Jane McQuerry was born in Ellis County, Texas, on December 20, 1866, but she spent most of her childhood in Collin and Brown Counties as the youngest daughter of a homeopathic physician, William McQuerry (1833-1909), and his wife, Martha Louisa Ruth Degman (1841-1909). William and Martha were both born in Kentucky. Minerva had one sister, Mary Louise McQuerry Abbott (1860-1933), and four brothers: William Godfrey McQuerry (1862-1925), George D. McQuerry (1870-1954), James Claude McQuerry (1872-1952), and Alfred Jackson McQuerry (1878-1974).
In 1886, Miss McQuerry married John Joseph Dougherty in Brownwood, Brown, Texas. The Reverend Noah T. Byars, the Baptist minister in whose blacksmith shop the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836, officiated. The Doughertys were the parents of two children: William Bernard Dougherty, Sr. (1887-1965), a pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Drug in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, and Mary Ruth Dougherty (1893-1986), a North Texas State Normal graduate who spent most of her adult life in Grapevine, Texas as the wife of David Eckley Box, the President of the First National Bank of Grapevine.
Mrs. Dougherty taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church of Grapevine, was active in the Women's Missionary Union, and served as a messenger to the Texas Baptist Convention. She was also a very skilled seamstress and helped to raise her daughter's children since the Doughertys lived right across the street from the Boxes in Grapevine where she died on March 16, 1953.
In 1886, Miss McQuerry married John Joseph Dougherty in Brownwood, Brown, Texas. The Reverend Noah T. Byars, the Baptist minister in whose blacksmith shop the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836, officiated. The Doughertys were the parents of two children: William Bernard Dougherty, Sr. (1887-1965), a pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Drug in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, and Mary Ruth Dougherty (1893-1986), a North Texas State Normal graduate who spent most of her adult life in Grapevine, Texas as the wife of David Eckley Box, the President of the First National Bank of Grapevine.
Mrs. Dougherty taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church of Grapevine, was active in the Women's Missionary Union, and served as a messenger to the Texas Baptist Convention. She was also a very skilled seamstress and helped to raise her daughter's children since the Doughertys lived right across the street from the Boxes in Grapevine where she died on March 16, 1953.
Minerva Jane McQuerry was born in Ellis County, Texas, on December 20, 1866, but she spent most of her childhood in Collin and Brown Counties as the youngest daughter of a homeopathic physician, William McQuerry (1833-1909), and his wife, Martha Louisa Ruth Degman (1841-1909). William and Martha were both born in Kentucky. Minerva had one sister, Mary Louise McQuerry Abbott (1860-1933), and four brothers: William Godfrey McQuerry (1862-1925), George D. McQuerry (1870-1954), James Claude McQuerry (1872-1952), and Alfred Jackson McQuerry (1878-1974).
In 1886, Miss McQuerry married John Joseph Dougherty in Brownwood, Brown, Texas. The Reverend Noah T. Byars, the Baptist minister in whose blacksmith shop the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836, officiated. The Doughertys were the parents of two children: William Bernard Dougherty, Sr. (1887-1965), a pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Drug in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, and Mary Ruth Dougherty (1893-1986), a North Texas State Normal graduate who spent most of her adult life in Grapevine, Texas as the wife of David Eckley Box, the President of the First National Bank of Grapevine.
Mrs. Dougherty taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church of Grapevine, was active in the Women's Missionary Union, and served as a messenger to the Texas Baptist Convention. She was also a very skilled seamstress and helped to raise her daughter's children since the Doughertys lived right across the street from the Boxes in Grapevine where she died on March 16, 1953.
In 1886, Miss McQuerry married John Joseph Dougherty in Brownwood, Brown, Texas. The Reverend Noah T. Byars, the Baptist minister in whose blacksmith shop the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836, officiated. The Doughertys were the parents of two children: William Bernard Dougherty, Sr. (1887-1965), a pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Drug in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, and Mary Ruth Dougherty (1893-1986), a North Texas State Normal graduate who spent most of her adult life in Grapevine, Texas as the wife of David Eckley Box, the President of the First National Bank of Grapevine.
Mrs. Dougherty taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church of Grapevine, was active in the Women's Missionary Union, and served as a messenger to the Texas Baptist Convention. She was also a very skilled seamstress and helped to raise her daughter's children since the Doughertys lived right across the street from the Boxes in Grapevine where she died on March 16, 1953.
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