Family/Spouse: Martha Pittman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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WILLIAM DOUGLASS was born in Cambria county, Pa., came to Indiana county with his parents, and after the death of his father continued to farm on the place where the family had settled until his death, which occurred Feb. 20, 1886; he was buried Feb. 22nd. He married Mary McKissick, a native of Indiana county, daughter of Thomas McKissick, who was born in Scotland and on coming to America settled in Indiana county, Pa., where he bought land in Green township; later he went West, where he remained until his death. He was a farmer throughout his life. He had a family of three sons and four daughters, all now deceased. Mrs. Mary (McKissick) Douglass died on the old Douglass homestead. She and her husband were the parents of nine children, the eldest being Jonathan, a resident of Green township; William is deceased; Martha is deceased; Barnabas lives in Green township; Thomas E. is deceased; Joseph is deceased; John E. is a resident of Green township; Sadie is the wife of John Baker, of Cambria county; Thaddeus lives in Montomery township, this county.

In 1870 and 1880 Fed census, He was living in gren twp., Indiana co., PA

Differing sources us Douglas and Douglass. Curly Billy's gravemarker has the double ss.

William + Mary McKissick. Mary (daughter of Thomas McKissick) was born in 1810 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 1 Apr 1869 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They came to Pennsylvania (from Ireland?)
Differing sources us Douglas and Douglass. 'Curly Billy's gravemarker has the double ss.

(Research):There is contradictory material on Barnabus and his family.
This is just one version:

Indiana Co., Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, J.T. Stewart, 1913, pub. by J.H. Beers. PP 1578-1579

" JONATHAN DOUGLASS
[grandfather] BARNABAS DOUGLASS was a native of Dublin, Ireland, whose wife was also born in that country. Upon coming to America, they settled in Philadelphia, later moving to Cambria county, Pa., where they remained about eighteen years. At the end of that time the family came to Indiana county, purchasing a large tract of land in Green township near the Cambria county line, where Barnabas Douglass continued to live and farm until his death. He had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are now deceased."

Barnabus + Sarah Keech. Sarah was born in 1778; died in 1844; was buried in Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They came to Pennsylvania (from Ireland?)

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of Scotland