Mary Dugger
1779 - Aft 1860 (> 82 years)-
Name Mary Dugger Birth 1778/1779 Wilkes Co, NC 
Gender Female _UID CAC8888DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000B6ED Death Aft 1860 Rutherford Co, NC Person ID I2975 Marty and Karla Grant Last Modified 5 Mar 2025
Father Benjamin Dugger, b. Bef 1747, Brunswick Co, VA d. 1815, Ashe Co, NC (Age > 68 years) Mother Elizabeth, b. Bef 1755 d. Aft 1830, Ashe Co, NC (Age > 77 years) Marriage Abt 1772 Surry Co, NC Family ID F262 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Callahan, b. 1787/1788, VA d. Aft 1850, Gilmer Co, GA (Age > 63 years) Marriage 1810/1820 Ashe Co, NC Children 1. Drury Callahan, b. 1800/1810, Rutherford Co, NC d. Bef 1850, Gilmer Co, GA (now Fannin) (Age < 39 years)2. Sarah Callahan, b. Abt 1808, Rutherford Co, NC 3. Artimincie Callahan, b. 1811/1812, Rutherford Co, NC d. Aft 1850, Lauderdale Co, TN (Age > 39 years)4. William Callahan, b. 1814/1815, Rutherford Co, NC d. Aft 1860, Rutherford Co, NC (Age > 46 years)5. Rhoda Callahan, b. 1810/1820, Rutherford Co, NC d. Aft 1840, Rutherford Co, NC (Age > 21 years)6. Mary "Polly" Callahan 7. Elvira Callahan, b. Rutherford Co, NC Family ID F2088 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Mar 2025
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Notes - !REFERENCE:"A History of Watauga County, North Carolina" John Preston Arthur. 1915. Ibid. Page 303 "Dugger Family. --- In 1793 or 1794 Benjamin DUGGER came to Watauga County from Yadkin Elk, where a creek and mountain still bear his name. He entered land on Brushy Fork, near the present HOLTSCLAW settlement. His children were Selah, who married Lawson GOODIN; Daniel DUGGER; Cora Ann, who married Samuel BURNS; Susannah, who married John WHITTINGTON; Mary, who married John CALIHAN; David and William DUGGER. David DUGGER bought out the other heirs. The deed is dated November 1, 1815 and calls for two tracts on Brushy Fork. There were three DUGGER brothers who came from Scotland to Yadkin Elk, having settled for a time near Petersburg, Va., Benjamin, Daniel and Julius. Ben stopped on Brushy Fork, Daniel went west to Kentucky and Julius settled in what was then Carter County, Tennessee, near Fish Springs, where some of his descendants still live. It was from the Julius DUGGER family that the Dugger Forge and the beginnings of Cranberry forge started. David married Margaret ERNEST and their children are: Henry, who married a GREEN; Polly, who married David HOWELL; Elizabeth, who married Jehiel SMITH, and William, who married Unice MUNDAY. William's children were: Henry, who never married; Franklin, who married Martha PRESNELL; David, who married Mary MUNDAY; Elizabeth, who never married; John, killed in Civil War; William Eben, married Nannie WILKERSON; Margaret and Mary Jane, not married";
!CENSUS:1787 Wilkes Co, NC pg 75 w/Benjamin DUGGER no ages (bef 1787);
!CENSUS:1790 Wilkes Co, NC pg 123 w/Ben DUGGER no ages (bef 1790);
!CENSUS:1800 Wilkes Co, NC pg 36 w/Benjamin DUGGER age 16-25 (1774/84);
!WITNESS:13 Oct 1802 Wilkes Co, NC Deeds C1-435 Benjamin DUGGAR, Ashe Co, NC to Martin HALL, 50, ---a Elk Creek, Joseph JONES line. S: Benjamin Duggar. Wit: Thomas FOSTER, Joel (X) DUGGAR, Mary (X) DUGGAR;
!CENSUS:1810 Ashe Co, NC pg 73 w/B. DUGGER age 26-44 (1765/84);
!CENSUS:1820;
!CENSUS:1830 * Rutherford Co, NC pg x w/John CALLIHAN age 30-39 (1790/1800);
!CENSUS:1840 * Rutherford Co, NC pg x w/John CALLIHAN age 60-69 (1770/80);
!CENSUS:1850 Gilmer Co., GA Subdivision No 33 # 366/366
John Callahan 62 Farmer $- VA
Polly 71 NC
Haza H. Phillips 20 m Farmer NC
Caroline 18 NC;
!CENSUS:1860 * Rutherford Co, NC # 189 Mary CALIHAN, 88 (1771/72), born NC, with Drury CALIHAN, 48 (son?);
- !REFERENCE:"A History of Watauga County, North Carolina" John Preston Arthur. 1915. Ibid. Page 303 "Dugger Family. --- In 1793 or 1794 Benjamin DUGGER came to Watauga County from Yadkin Elk, where a creek and mountain still bear his name. He entered land on Brushy Fork, near the present HOLTSCLAW settlement. His children were Selah, who married Lawson GOODIN; Daniel DUGGER; Cora Ann, who married Samuel BURNS; Susannah, who married John WHITTINGTON; Mary, who married John CALIHAN; David and William DUGGER. David DUGGER bought out the other heirs. The deed is dated November 1, 1815 and calls for two tracts on Brushy Fork. There were three DUGGER brothers who came from Scotland to Yadkin Elk, having settled for a time near Petersburg, Va., Benjamin, Daniel and Julius. Ben stopped on Brushy Fork, Daniel went west to Kentucky and Julius settled in what was then Carter County, Tennessee, near Fish Springs, where some of his descendants still live. It was from the Julius DUGGER family that the Dugger Forge and the beginnings of Cranberry forge started. David married Margaret ERNEST and their children are: Henry, who married a GREEN; Polly, who married David HOWELL; Elizabeth, who married Jehiel SMITH, and William, who married Unice MUNDAY. William's children were: Henry, who never married; Franklin, who married Martha PRESNELL; David, who married Mary MUNDAY; Elizabeth, who never married; John, killed in Civil War; William Eben, married Nannie WILKERSON; Margaret and Mary Jane, not married";