Father-Alexander Douglass b.Canada
Mother-Laura Stannard Douglass b. Connecticut
Son of Alexander and Laura Stannard Douglass, Fernando moved from his birth state of New York to Medford, Minnesota in 1829. He was a farmer but had also trained to be a wheelwright. He married Abigail Carpenter at Faribault, Minnesota in 1857. The couple had three children: Ida, Nettie, and Earl. Fernando moved to Uintah County, Utah in August, 1914, several years after the passing of his wife, and after his own health became delicate. His single daughter, Nettie, accompanied him. they moved into the home of his son Earl whose family had located at a place called "Orchid Draw" near what is known as "Split Mountain", about seven miles north of Jensen. Earl was the head of a group of peleontologists who were involved in digging up fossils for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at one of the largest dinosaur burial grounds ever found. Fernando was a subscriber to the Seventh Day Adventist faith. When he died, services were held at the Earl Douglass home. There was a severe snowstorm in progress at the time, so plans to have his burial take place beside his wife in Medford, Minnesota were abandoned temporarily and he was interred near the Earl Douglass homestead. With the passage of time and with changing circumstances, his temporary resting place became permanent. Daughter Nettie Douglass would be buried by his side following her death in 1923. Father and daughter are buried about 400 yards west of what is now the Visitors Center Parking Lot in Dinosaur National Monument.
Mother-Laura Stannard Douglass b. Connecticut
Son of Alexander and Laura Stannard Douglass, Fernando moved from his birth state of New York to Medford, Minnesota in 1829. He was a farmer but had also trained to be a wheelwright. He married Abigail Carpenter at Faribault, Minnesota in 1857. The couple had three children: Ida, Nettie, and Earl. Fernando moved to Uintah County, Utah in August, 1914, several years after the passing of his wife, and after his own health became delicate. His single daughter, Nettie, accompanied him. they moved into the home of his son Earl whose family had located at a place called "Orchid Draw" near what is known as "Split Mountain", about seven miles north of Jensen. Earl was the head of a group of peleontologists who were involved in digging up fossils for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at one of the largest dinosaur burial grounds ever found. Fernando was a subscriber to the Seventh Day Adventist faith. When he died, services were held at the Earl Douglass home. There was a severe snowstorm in progress at the time, so plans to have his burial take place beside his wife in Medford, Minnesota were abandoned temporarily and he was interred near the Earl Douglass homestead. With the passage of time and with changing circumstances, his temporary resting place became permanent. Daughter Nettie Douglass would be buried by his side following her death in 1923. Father and daughter are buried about 400 yards west of what is now the Visitors Center Parking Lot in Dinosaur National Monument.
Father-Alexander Douglass b.Canada
Mother-Laura Stannard Douglass b. Connecticut
Son of Alexander and Laura Stannard Douglass, Fernando moved from his birth state of New York to Medford, Minnesota in 1829. He was a farmer but had also trained to be a wheelwright. He married Abigail Carpenter at Faribault, Minnesota in 1857. The couple had three children: Ida, Nettie, and Earl. Fernando moved to Uintah County, Utah in August, 1914, several years after the passing of his wife, and after his own health became delicate. His single daughter, Nettie, accompanied him. they moved into the home of his son Earl whose family had located at a place called "Orchid Draw" near what is known as "Split Mountain", about seven miles north of Jensen. Earl was the head of a group of peleontologists who were involved in digging up fossils for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at one of the largest dinosaur burial grounds ever found. Fernando was a subscriber to the Seventh Day Adventist faith. When he died, services were held at the Earl Douglass home. There was a severe snowstorm in progress at the time, so plans to have his burial take place beside his wife in Medford, Minnesota were abandoned temporarily and he was interred near the Earl Douglass homestead. With the passage of time and with changing circumstances, his temporary resting place became permanent. Daughter Nettie Douglass would be buried by his side following her death in 1923. Father and daughter are buried about 400 yards west of what is now the Visitors Center Parking Lot in Dinosaur National Monument.
Mother-Laura Stannard Douglass b. Connecticut
Son of Alexander and Laura Stannard Douglass, Fernando moved from his birth state of New York to Medford, Minnesota in 1829. He was a farmer but had also trained to be a wheelwright. He married Abigail Carpenter at Faribault, Minnesota in 1857. The couple had three children: Ida, Nettie, and Earl. Fernando moved to Uintah County, Utah in August, 1914, several years after the passing of his wife, and after his own health became delicate. His single daughter, Nettie, accompanied him. they moved into the home of his son Earl whose family had located at a place called "Orchid Draw" near what is known as "Split Mountain", about seven miles north of Jensen. Earl was the head of a group of peleontologists who were involved in digging up fossils for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at one of the largest dinosaur burial grounds ever found. Fernando was a subscriber to the Seventh Day Adventist faith. When he died, services were held at the Earl Douglass home. There was a severe snowstorm in progress at the time, so plans to have his burial take place beside his wife in Medford, Minnesota were abandoned temporarily and he was interred near the Earl Douglass homestead. With the passage of time and with changing circumstances, his temporary resting place became permanent. Daughter Nettie Douglass would be buried by his side following her death in 1923. Father and daughter are buried about 400 yards west of what is now the Visitors Center Parking Lot in Dinosaur National Monument.
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