Cass County IN Archives Obituaries.....Douglass, Nancy June 13, 1899
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Logansport Journal; Logansport, Indiana;  Wednesday, June 28, 1899
Logansport Journal  
Wednesday, June 28, 1899
Logansport, Indiana

Mrs. Nancy Douglass

From a recent copy of the Hume, (Ill.) Record, the following obituary of a one 
time well known resident of Logansport is taken.

Mrs. Nancy Douglass died last Tuesday, June 13, 1899 in the ninety-fifth year 
of her age, at the residence of her son, J.K. Douglass in this village, where 
she has resided for the past several years.

The State of Ohio was two years old when she was born in Georgetown, Adams 
county, May 4, 1804.  The country was infested with hostile Indians.  The 
French and English were constantly inciting them to violence, and this woman 
was 8 years old when the British captured Detroit and invaded Ohio and met 
defeat at Fort Meigs.  The family emigrated from Adams county and went west 
across the State, where they settled in Darke county on the Indiana border.  It 
was here that she was married to John T. Douglass, 1825.  The young couple 
following the Indian trails through the forest of Indiana and settled in Cass 
county, 1829.  Her husband died at Logansport, Ind., in 1843.  She joined the 
Presbyterian church at Paris when she was 80 years of age.  She left a numerous 
and thrifty offspring who are a credit to their day and generation.  the burial 
services took place at Paris at half-past 12 Thursday, in Edgar Cemetery, the 
Rev. A.P. Stover officiating.

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