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According to Indiana marriages 1850-1920 Lists Commodore Douglas married to Millie Timmons on 03/19/1902. There is n o proof that this is our Commodore.
There is also a Commodore Perry Douglas, b Jan 1854 born in Missouri, USA, who married Orena Crossland with five children.
Commodore Perry Douglass Located in 1880 census for, Charit on, Lucas Co., Iowa. He is listed single, age 25, born in Indiana, works as a clerk in Clothing Store. Living in Marga ret Maloney's boarding house.
Thursday, December 1, 1904
ANSWERS THE FINAL SUMMONS
FORMER CHARITON YOUNG MAN PASSES TO THE BEYOND
Remains Brought to This Place for Interment- Beautiful Tribute by Fellow Employees.
The remains of Richard Douglass, who died suddenly at his home in Peoria, Ill., on Monday, November 21, 1904, with apoplexy, were brought to Chariton on the afternoon of Thanksgiving day and interred in the Chariton Cemetery, brief services at the grave being conducted by Rev. Fred B. Palmer. Funeral services were held at the residence in Peoria on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the telegraph operators of the P. & P.U., and the Knights of Maccabees, of which orders he was a member, attended in a body.
Richard Douglass was the son of Noble Douglass of this city and the early years of his life were spent in Chariton. On August 4, 1886, he was married at Thayer, Iowa, to Miss Ella McFarland. They moved to Illinois in 1893 and for ten years before his death resided in Peoria where he was employed as a telegraph operator. He had been ailing for about ten months but was only seriously ill for about three hours. He leaves a wife and four children and to them the tenderest sympathy of a host of Chariton friends is extended. From a paper published at Peoria we take the following eulogy which was sent out to his fellow employees.
Fellow Employees, P. & P.U. railway: Death has entered our ranks and taken form among us Operator Richard D. Douglass.
Those of us who knew him personally knew him as a man of kindly heart. That he would divide his last dollar with a friend.
It was a pleasure to meet him, and his gentle nature made us loath to leave him. Friends remained his friends, and strangers were drawn to him until they became his friends.
There are many heavy hearts today on the P. & P.U.
Let us as a small token of regard and memory of him lay upon his bier a wreath of flowers in loving remembrance of our departed friend Dick.
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1853 - 1904 (51 years)
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