DOTY WORTHY SCIONS OF ANTEBELLUM NEGRO FAMILY
Are Faithful Workers and Law-Abiding Citizens.
Courier Gazette
October 5, 1925
Many southern negroes by
their honesty, industry and peaceful lives have won the respect and esteem of
their white acquaintances and friends of their respective towns and communities.
The southern negro knows his place and stays in it and true southern white
people respect them and treat them with kindness and fairness on account of
their exemplary lives. These standards of southern negroes often are brought
into marked contrast with the standards of the colored race of the North and
East where social equality prevails in a more or less degree.
Kemp Doty, a respected old
colored man living in the Lewisville suburb of our city came in to renew his
Daily Courier-Gazette subscription. He worked for about thirty years at the
McKinney compress. A few years ago he suffered a partial stroke of paralysis of
his right side incapacitating him for further hard labor. There are five of the
Doty brothers all of them readers of the Daily Courier-Gazette and respected
McKinney negroes. They are Prof. E. S. Doty for eighteen or twenty years
principal of the McKinney colored school; Kemp Doty, Douglas Doty, Darius Doty
and Layne Doty. They are all home owners and two of them - Prof. E. S. Doty and
Douglas Doty, also own little farms near McKinney. Three of them - Douglas,
Darius and Layne Doty all work for the McKinney Compress Company, having worked
for periods of from five to twenty-five years each. They have one sister who is
the wife of D. Kirkham who lives in North McKinney. Their ages mother Agnes Doty
is also living. She was a slave of the Muse family and is now somewhere in her
eighties and also resides in McKinney. Her husband, Dave Doty, died in McKinney
a few years ago. Dave Doty and wife were old time Southern slaves, respectful,
industrious and obedient to their white masters who took good care of them and
instilled principles of correct living in them by both precept and example. Dave
and Agnes raised a family of respected children as the facts above referred to
set forth and indicate. These Doty children and descendents are never in trouble
or in the toils of the law. Possibly six or seven of these children have been
given college educations by their parents and two or three of them are now away
in college at Prairie View State Normal or other colored colleges of the state.
Two or Three other children are engaged in teaching schools for their race in
McKinney or elsewhere. It is a pleasure to give credit where credit is due to
white or black and we especially take pleasure in conferring ti the humble,
industrious and useful lives of the Doty family back for three generations and
commend them as worthy of emulation for other members of their race.
Surname Index
Recommended Citation:
"Doty Family,
EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
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