Elizabeth Anne Douglass

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Anne

When Elizabeth Anne Douglass was born on 31 March 1852, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Richard Emerson Douglass, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth W Wadsworth, was 18. She married John Wilkie Hooper on 27 January 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hooper Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900 and Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 22 October 1919, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Hooper City Cemetery, Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Wilkie Hooper
1848–1908
Elizabeth Anne Douglass
1852–1919
Marriage: 27 January 1873
John Douglass Hooper
1873–1963
Richard Douglas Hooper
1876–1954
David Wilkie Hooper
1878–1929
Elizabeth Ann Hooper
1881–1968
Anne Wilkie Hooper
1883–1953
George Douglas Hooper
1885–1964
Douglas Hooper
1888–1942
Frank Hooper
1891–1963

Sources (68)

  • Elizabeth A Hooper, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Utah, U.S., Select County Marriages, 1887-1937
  • U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939

World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries 1854: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States

1863

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

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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Story Highlight

The Ogden Standard, Monday, Oct. 27, 1919, p. 6

Hooper - Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hooper were held yesterday at 1 o'clock from the Hooper meeting house, Bishop J.R. Bues officiating. The musical program was as follows: "Nearer My God …

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