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Douglass family of Missouri
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Early arrivals, and their successors
The Douglass family was of Scotch origin, descending from the union
of Alexander Douglass and Lady Mary Grey(3).
Four of the children
born of this marriage settled in Alexandria, Virginia. One of these
children was Grey Douglass, who married Elizabeth Thomson, niece of
Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress.
One of
the sons of Grey and Elizabeth Thomson Douglass was Alexander Thomson
Douglass. Alexander Thomson Douglass removed his family to St. Louis,
where his son John Thomson Douglass(1) established the Douglass Bagging
Company in the 1850s.
John Thomson Douglass married Cornelia
McPherson in 1847 at Boonville, Missouri. Their children were Edward
Salisbury Douglass, Annie McPherson Douglass, Sallie Hopkins Douglass,
May Douglass, Fannie Lowery Douglass, and Archibald Grey Douglass.
James Bryant Douglas, born 11 Sep 1859 in Coffee County, Tennessee,
died 5 Aug 1932 in Dade County, Missouri, son of Joseph Douglas and
Elizabeth Starnes, married Sarah Ann Sally Todd. Their son, William
Arthur Douglas was born 11 Oct 1886 in Cedar, Missouri. He committed
suicide on 3 Dec 1941 in Fresno, California.
James
Marsh Douglas (1896 – 1974) was a Missouri Supreme Court judge. He
was born in St. Louis on January 6, 1896, one five children born to
Walter Bond Douglas,
(1851-1920) a St. Louis Circuit judge, and Francesca Kimball Douglas.
Ambrose Douglas, son of William Riley Douglas and Sarah Ellen (Bastin)
Douglas, was born 11 Sep 1876 in Kentucky, United States. Ambrose died
17 May 1945 in Missouri, United States.
Douglas County is a
county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of
Missouri. The county was officially organized on October 19, 1857, and
is named after U.S. Senator
Stephen A. Douglas who was born Apr 1863 in Missouri.
Notes: 1. Capt John Thomson Douglass 27
Oct. 1817 - 16 Jan. 1878. The mother of Captain Douglass was
before her marriage Miss Maria Bright Hollis Watts (Encyclopedia of the
History of St. Louis: A Compendium of History ...) 2. Archibald
Grey Douglass may have had a son, also Archibald Grey Douglass, born 10
Feb 1915 in St Louis, by his wife Elizabeth Roden Warner. Archibald
Grey Douglass, 1866 - 1952 Archibald Grey Douglass was born in 1866,
in Missouri, to John Thomson Douglass and Cornelia McPherson. John
was born on 27 October 1817, in Augusta Co, VA. Cornelia was born on 14
April 1830, in Frederick, MD. Archibald had 6 siblings: Edward
Salisbury Douglass, Annie McPherson Douglass and 4 other siblings.
Archibald married Elizabeth Warner in 1909, at age 43. Elizabeth was
born in 1888. They had 2 children. Archibald died 1952, at age 86
in Missouri and was buried in Missouri.
3. This Lady Mary Grey has not been identified.
She is not the sister of Jane, "the Nine Days' Queen"; that Mary married
Thomas Keyes, the sergeant porter at court.
See also: •
The Missouri Douglass History; J Purkaple; December 2021
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Sources
Sources for this article include:
• Douglass Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis. • www.myheritage.com/names/archibald_douglass
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