David Daughtry

David Daughtry was born in the state of Georgia, into slavery on Sunday, March 8, 1835, and he later deceased on Wednesday, May 24, 1922. He was seated right in chair). Members of the white slaveholding families used David (a.k.a., Dave Daughtry; Dave or David Parker) as a “breeder”. Oral history states he fathered 19 children by various women. Seventeen of his offspring were sons. He protested the changing of his slave surname from “Daughtry” to "Parker". Upon emancipation, he reclaimed his former identity. Oral history states, he lived to be 135 years of age, and that he told stories of his life to someone collecting, slave narratives, during the early 1900s.

His Georgia death certificate that matches Dave’s profile indicates that he was born, August 3, 1835, in Georgia. The death date listed is, May 24, 1922. He died in Blitch, Bulloch County, Georgia. If the vitals are correct, he lived 3 months short of his 87th birthday. After slavery, Dave was an itinerant worker. He remained within the Screven and Bulloch counties boundaries of Georgia.

Hundreds of railroad companies emerged and operated in Georgia, beginning in 1830. In Dave’s later life, and for a number of years, he worked for the Sylvania Central short-line railroads in Dover, Bulloch County (now Screven County, Georgia. I am not certain of his duties with the railroad company. The family oral history states he was working for the railroad company at the time of his supposed slave narrative. Numerous other ancestors: male, female, and adult and youth had a hand in building and sustaining, Sylvania Central, and other Georgia rail transport systems. The younger man seated on the left arm of the chair is, Samuel Gary Williams, husband of Grampa Dave’s granddaughter by his daughter Frances Daughtry Lovett is Willie Mae Lovett.'