Pioneer Families of Missouri
By Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose
Bryan, Brand & Co., St. Louis, Mo. 1876

Audrain County, page 397

Douglass Family-

George Douglass, whose parents were Scotch, settled first in Amherst County,
Va., and removed from there to Bedford Co. He married Mary Tucker, and they
had - Lucinda, David, John, Murphy, William, Polly, Susannah, and Sally.
Lucinda, John, Polly and Susannah remained in Virginia, where they married
and raised large families.  Murphy married and settled in the northern part
of Alabama. William married and settled in Byron Co., Ky. Sally married John
Coward, who settled in Shelby County. David was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He married Sally White, a daughter of Jacob White and Rebecca Hollaway, by
whom he had - Nancy, Elizabeth, William B., Louisa, Edward H., Mary A.,
Martha, Lumira, Sarah, Edith, Robert H., Edna, and Keren. William B., who is
a minister, settled in Missouri in 1830. He was married in 1832, to Lucy
Chick, the ceremony being performed by Esquire Enoch Fruite. They had six
sons and two daughters.

Mr. Douglass taught school for some time after he came to Missouri, and he
had a great many grown pupils who did not know their letters. It was the
fashion then to study out loud in the school-room, and each one would try to
get his lesson in a louder tone than the others, and sometimes the noise
would be so great that it could be heard half a mile.

After Mr. Douglass began to preach, he was frequently called upon to marry
people. On one occasion he went seven miles to marry a couple, through a
drenching rain, swimming several creeks that lay in his route, and returned
the same day; for which he received the magnificent sum of fifty cents! He
then had to go thirteen miles, on a cold, rainy day, and pay that fifty cents
to have the marriage recorded. Such were the trials of pioneer preachers.

Edward H. Douglas settled in Audrain County in 1837. He married Mary J.
Ogden, of Virginia, by whom he had two sons. He died in 1838. Sarah Douglass
married her cousin, Robert Douglass, and settled in Johnson County, Missouri.

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Note: These family histories, although containing an abundance of valuable
information, are sometimes filled with errors. They just wrote down whatever
the family told them.

Transcribed by James R. Baker, Jr.   (jrbakerjr@prodigy.net)
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