1798 - 1886 (88 years)
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| Name |
James Douglass |
| Prefix |
Col. |
| Birth |
13 Sep 1798 |
Delaware Co., New York, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
16 Dec 1886 |
Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebraska |
- also recrded as dieing in Caroline Tomkins Co, New York, USA
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| Person ID |
I97225 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
9 Nov 2022 |
| Family 2 |
Mary d. 1886, Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebraska |
| Marriage |
4th August 1728 |
| Family ID |
F35558 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Aug 2014 |
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| Notes |
- A Colonel in the Mexican War of 1845
When the Douglass and Thorn(e) families came to the area in 1866, they lived in dugouts/caves on the river. James Douglas had been a millwright in most of the earlier census enumerations. There is a story about a falling out between James and his son; James lost his land and eventually ended up on the County Poor Farm. James had mortgaged his property to help his son and the son never paid back his father. At that time, of the five children of James and Flora, only Seymour who moved to Lincoln, and William who stayed in New York, survived him. My ancestor was son Justus Gideon Douglass who died as a result of the Civil War. Daughter Flora died in Wisconsin and the second daughter, Maria L., wife of James Thorn, died in Syracuse, Otoe County. The obituary for James in the Syracuse Journal, states that James had mortgaged his property to aid his son Seymour. The obituary on microfilm at the Nebraska City library: December 24, 1886 of the Nebraska City News: article on front page "ASPHYXIATED AT THE POOR FARM", telling about how James Douglass died as a result of asphyxiation from coal gas. There had been a problem with the furnace which was under the bed of James. Workmen opened up the floor to reach repair the furnace and "failed to close the aperture." There was another man in the room who survived. There was a coroner's inquest. Mary had died a "few days prior" to James of Typhoid Fever.
Dorothey Douglass Sherman is a ggg granddaughter
- (Research):James Thorn married his sister
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