Charles Clay Douglass

Brief Life History of Charles Clay

When Charles Clay Douglass was born on 5 July 1922, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, Charles Florence Douglass, was 44 and his mother, Edna Pearl Moore, was 34. He lived in Cache Township, Cotton, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 September 2004, in Purcell, McClain, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Temple Masonic Cemetery, Temple, Cotton, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Florence Douglass
1877–1963
Edna Pearl Moore
1887–1970
Cecil Nicholas Douglass
1910–1971
Joseph Cloviece Douglass
1911–1984
Loren Kirby Douglass
1913–1990
Howard Lee Douglass
1914–1995
Virginia L Douglass
1916–2007
Eugene Haig Douglass
1918–2010
Richard Wayne Douglass Sr
1919–1986
Charles Clay Douglass
1922–2004
Lloyd Leon Douglass
1924–2007
Gilbert Verneal Douglass
1927–1991

Sources (6)

  • Charles C Douglas in household of Charles F Douglas, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Charles C Douglass, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Charles C Douglass, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

1944 · The G.I Bill

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .

History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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