This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: karenmeasel196 Surnames: Douglass/Bannan/Morgan/Rosenberry Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.schuylkill/12009/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Pottsville Evening Republican Newspaper Pottsville,Pa Wednesday November 6, 1929 DIED AT 93 AT ORWIGSBURG Victoria Douglass,daughter of the late Dr.George and Mary Bannan Douglass,died at her home at Orwigsburg on Wednesday morning.Her death occurred in the Douglass home at South Warren and Independent Sts.She was in her 93rd year and was the oldest resident of Orwigsburg,being born and reared in the same house in which she died. She was a great grandaughter of General Morgan and a great great grandaughter of Captian Jacob Morgan,who conducted a sugar refining establishment at Philadelphia,and also to whom a monument was raised a number if years ago at Fort Lebanon.She was the last member of her family. The Douglass family was proud of their ancestry. The late George Douglass,her first American ancestor,married the daughter of the Earl of Ross and migrated to America from Scotland in the year 1715. There are no immediate survivors although several nieces and nephews will mour her loss. Among those are Frank Rosenberry of Pottsville. Undertaker Fermiter will be in charge of the funeral,with the interment to be made in the family plot in Charles Baber Cemetery. Charles Baber Cemetery Section 7 Row 4 Douglass Victoria b: 7-30-1837 d:11-6-1929 Mary(Bannan)w/Dr.George b:1-3-1795 d:10-7-1880 Rebecca P b:12-23-1839 d: 1-16-1919 Rachel M b:6-6-1833 d:9-15-1917 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.