Biographical Sketch of Charles B. Douglass, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Charles B. Douglass, deceased.  The subject of the following sketch was
born in Philadelphia, June 3, 1809.  At the age of 17 he went to Kentucky
where he lived until 1843.  While in Kentucky he was married to Miss
Rebecca Rawlings, a native of Fleming county, Kentucky.  Eight children
were born to them: William, Jonathan, Henry, Thomas, Charles, Nancy, 
Eliza and Sarah.  In 1843 the family moved to Missouri, Johnson county,
near Columbus, where they lived two years, and then removed to near Basin
Knob, and afterwards to Oak Grove, living three years at each place. Then
coming to Lafayette county, they lived here five years, and then returned
to Johnson county where they remained until 1866.  September 1, 1863, a
company of the seventh Missouri cavalry and one of the eleventh Kansas
cavalry came to Mr. Douglass' house and took him away to Davis' creek
bottom, in Lafayette county, and there shot him together with Dr. William
Dobson, and left the bodies lying in the grass, which was as tall as a 
grown person.  On the afternoon of the following day a company of forty
men, among whom were Thomas Douglass, Stout Burton and Daniel Dobson,
started in search of the missing.  They found the bodies after some 
search, and buried them at Oak Grove Cemetery.  Mr. Douglass, politically
was a constitutional Union man, but took no active part in the war.  He
had three sons, however, in the confederate army.  Neither Mr. Douglass
nor his family ever knew why he was thus taken away and shot.  There was 
but one wound on his body and that was directly through the heart.  Mrs.
Douglass and one son are now living about three miles south of Aullville,
engaged in farming.

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