Ellen Douglass

Brief Life History of Ellen

When Ellen Douglass was born on 14 April 1850, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Richard Emerson Douglass, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth W Wadsworth, was 16. She married James Wilson on 24 November 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870 and West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 28 November 1928, in Wilson, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Wilson
1840–1903
Ellen Douglass
1850–1928
Marriage: 24 November 1866
James Douglas Wilson
1867–1940
Elizabeth Lizzie Wilson
1870–1945
Nellie Wilson
1873–1937
Vilate Wilson
1876–1962
Emily May Wilson
1879–1939
Ida Wilson
1881–
Wilford Douglas Wilson
1885–1929
Alice Wilson
1886–1961
Ellen Wilson
1892–
Glenna Wilson Fowler
1895–1924

Sources (43)

  • Ellen Wilson in household of James Wilson, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ellen Douglass - Government record: Burial record or certificate: birth: 24 April 1850; Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
  • Ellen Douglas Wilson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1851

Historical Boundaries: 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

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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