Brief Life History of Samuel Edward
When Samuel Edward Douglas Sr was born on 17 December 1906, in Waynesboro, Wayne, Mississippi, United States, his father, Willie Isaac Douglas, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Jane Sumrall, was 28. He married Laura Mae Williams on 2 January 1929. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Township 3 Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States in 1940 and Baldwin, Alabama, United States in 1950. He died on 2 October 1995, in Fairhope, Baldwin, Alabama, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Silverhill, Baldwin, Alabama, United States.
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- Samuel Douglas in household of William Douglas, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sam Edward Douglas - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Sam Edward Douglas
- Sam Douglas, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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