This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DOUGLAS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/910 Message Board Post: From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:49 PM Subject: Shelby County Marthann, I found your name on one of the Ancestry message boards and thought you may be able to help me. I am writing from Georgia. A couple of years ago I purchased a collage of some things from an estate sale in Missouri. The items apparently belonged to a Miss Lizzie Z. Douglas of Shelby Iowa.. I have been curious about this lady ever since I bought them - who was she and who might her ancestors be? In the collage is a letter of recommendation from her principal at a Missouri Valley High School. She graduated in 1899 at the top of her class and was seeking employment as a teacher. There are several of her personal belongings. If this were my ancestor I would be thrilled to hear about them, and I really would like to find out something about this young lady. I don't have any way to look at a Shelby County census, etc. to possibly track down who she was. I am sure she must have married later. Could you help or direct me to someone, maybe a genealogical society ! in that area that I might contact ? Thank you very much. Jean Shelby is in Shelby county, and the Missouri Valley High School is in Harrison county. I have already sent Jean the addresses for the Genealogical societies of those 2 counties. And I have posted this message on the IOWA board, the Harrison Co., IA board and the Shelby Co., IA board. I will also post on the the "Douglas" surname board. Does anyone know of Lizzie Douglas or her family? It would be nice to help Jean find a home for the memorabilia. Marthann