Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/146 Surname: DOUGLAS, RAND, PICKENS, STONE, MOREHEAD, SEAMON, AULTZ, MCKAY, HAYMAN, BROWN, KNEEREAM, PARR ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek" Douglas Family John Douglas married Elizabeth Richards. They settled at the mouth of Mill Creek, at a very early date. They came there from Harrison County. He at first followed keelboating, making trips to Charleston, also to Pittsburgh. Later he bought a farm of five hundred acres, lying on the river, where he lived until his death. They raised ten children, some of whom are: Reuben Douglas Alfred Douglas Miranda Douglas Hiram Douglas Nancy Douglas, married John Rand, of Wyoming. Elizabeth Douglas, married Bartlett Pickens, of Crooked Fork. Reuben Douglas was born in September, 1818, spent most of his life as a farmer and a stockraiser, though in his days of vigor and strength, he followed boating to some extent. He was married to Sarah Stone in 1842. His wife was a daughter of George Stone, of Jackson County. They lived on a farm on Mill Creek. The wife died in 1864. Later he married a Widow Blake Mary Morehead - of Wood County. In 1887, he moved on to a farm near Ravenswood. His children were: George T. Douglas Oscar Douglas Hiram R. Douglas Elizabeth Douglas, married William Seamon. Minerva J. Douglas, married A. O. Aultz Ellen Douglas, married Spencer McKay. Elizabeth Douglas, married Stephen Hayman. Lucinda Douglas, married C. B. Brown (Cyrus) Sallie Douglas, married C. T. Kneeream (firm of Kneeream and Douglas) Reuben Douglas has been a Justice of the Peace, and a prominent figure in the Ravenswood Bank. Hiram Douglas was born in 1836. He was in the mercantile business at Ripley Landing prior to 1863, and again from 1865 to 1870. After sixteen years of farm life, he again resumed the store, also bought timber, etc. He married Marietta, daughter of Hamilton Parr, of Meigs County, Ohio, in 1864, and raised six children. He was long the postmaster at Ripley Landing.