Monroe-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Joseph Douglass July 12 1843
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Macon Messenger (newspaper) 10 Aug 1843

DIED.
     In Sumpter county on the 12th ult., Mr Joseph Douglass, in the 75th year 
of his age.  He was a native of Mecklinburg county, N.C., and among the first 
settlers of Monroe county [Georgia.]  He was the owner of the land on which the 
flourishing village of Culloden is situated, and erected the first cabin on the 
spot.  The next settler of the village was Wm. Culloden, an Irishman by birth, 
who had spent the prime of his life in India.  He erected a small store house 
there, in the fall of 1823--and with these individuals, the rise and history of 
the place is closely identified.  Culloden died several years since, but his 
name is perpetuated by one of the most flourishing villages in the State, with 
a community of the highest moral character, and devoted to education and 
literacy improvement.  Mr. Douglass was a man of retentive memory, well read, 
and possessed an ample stock of general information.  He was generous in his 
disposition, and of active industrious habits, and whose death will awaken a 
feeling of sorrow in many of the community with whom he was long associated.


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