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There are over one hundred grand children and great
grand children too numerous to mention. Eight of
them were in the Confederate Army-William and
Phil. and Tom and Daniel Doty, P. B. Harris, and W.
J. Halsell, lost three sons in law, were with Morgan
and captured in the Ohio raid. George was killed at
Chickamauga. Chris died in Louisiana.
His daughters, Fannie married J. P. Saunders;
Mary, Daniel Doty; Elizabeth married W. J. Halsell;
Amanda, F. B. Harris; Cinderella, Henry Hatcher.
Mr. John Huffhines, Sr., died March 15, 1875, his
wife in 1886.
The descendants and connections of John Huffhines
at this time will probably number nearly 500.
The Huffhines were a kind of people to develop a
new country. None of them ever aspired to office,
and they did not try to bring themselves into public
notice, neither did they spend much time in idle talk.
They found here a new and wild country, untouched
by the finger of man, and they converted it into a
garden spot, and caused the wilderness to blossom as
the rose. None of them ever held an office or ever
asked for one; and as far as I know not one of them
was ever sued for debt, and all of that multitude of
Huffhines were good for their promises. Such men
are the stay and the strength and the backbone of
our country, and when they came here they must
have realized that they were a part of the advance
guard going out in obedience to the command of God
to subdue and replenish the earth, and they certainly
have obeyed the command to the letter.
CHARLES H. DURGIN
Charles H. Durgin was an early arrival in the
Republic of Texas, settling in 1842 in what is now
Jefferson, Marion County, Texas. From there he
went to San Antonio and came to Dallas in the