Name of paper was not listed or date....The obit with a few others were in a box my Aunt ALLIE WARD WEST owned. There is also an article with the DAUGHERTYs that were murdered in 1920's, with the picture of the 3 coffins lined up.. J.R. DAUGHERTY, merchant dies A county native whose rise from public welfare in the 1910s to prominence in the business world seemed like a parallel to the Horatio Alger story. JOHN (J. R.) DAUGHERTY, 82 of Clinton, died Monday morning in the apartment he kept at his landmark, hand-hewn stone store on main St. Daugherty, who predicted diabetes would "be the end of me" once told an interviewer that "when I was growing up, I either wanted to be a railroad engineer, a boat captain or a merchant. I don't know why I did, but I did. My cousins laughed at me, a barefoot boy, for thinking such things." By saving up his wages as a young New River teenager working as a timberman and a coal miner, Daugherty opened his first store at Fork Mountain in 1924. In 1935, he moved his business, now more oriented toward furniture and appliances to Clinton where he built the still operating five story structure with rock quarried near Oliver Springs. Daugherty was a 50 year member of the Petros Black Diamond Masonic Lodge No. 625 and a 32nd degree Scottish Rite member in Nashville. He was a member of the First Babtist Church of Clinton. Daugherty was preceded in death by his wife Mrs. BETHANNA DAUGHERTY, whom he married in 1927, and his son, LEO DAUGHERTY, who had been his bookkeeper, in 1981, and a grandson, MICHAEL DAUGHERTY. He is survived by two sons, R. L. and CHESTER DAUGHERTY, both of Clinton; 10 grandchildren, two sisters, MADIE ARMES of Wartburg, MARIE MARLOW of Monterey; half sister RODA DAGLEY of Petros and brother, LAFORD DAUGHERTY of Caryville. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton with the Rev SAMUEL DEAN officiating. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery, Masonic services were held Tuesday. Milly WARD Piraeus My mind is lightning one brilliant Flash and pooooffffffffffffffffffffff it's gone. Rootsweb Administrator for Anderson, Campbell and Fentress Tennessee Counties