Civil War: Company F, 39th Missouri Infantry.

Joseph Douglass was born in Danville, Illinois, and as a young man he moved to Missouri where he married (1) Eliza Ellen Hickman in Knox County on February 28, 1856. After Eliza died in Knox County in 1863 he left his two sons in the care of family and enlisted as a private at Hannibal, Missouri, where he was mustered into Company F, 39th Missouri Infantry, on August 1, 1864. He was mustered out at St. Louis, Missouri, on July 19, 1865.

After the war he remained in Missouri where he married (2) Mary M. Hoye in Schuyler County on August 25, 1875. At some point they moved to Los Angeles County, California, where Joseph planted an orchard. After Mary's death in 1893 he moved to Pomona where he became a member of Pomona's Vicksburg Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic. He filed for a Civil War veteran pension at Pomona on April 21, 1904, and received certificate No. 1,081,990. He became a charter member of Monrovia Post, No. 202, G.A.R., which received its charter on August 8, 1912, just a few months before his death. He was buried beside Mary in Monrovia's Live Oak Memorial Park.

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DIED.

Joseph Douglass, a resident of Pomona for twenty years, died at his home, 1056 West Second Street, at 5 o'clock this morning. He was 78 years old. The deceased was a native of Illinois, moving later to Missouri, from where he came to this City. He was a Mason and member of the Presbyterian Church. Four children survive, Ernest and May Douglass of Pomona, F. M. Douglass of Hollywood and William Douglass of Hutchinson, Kansas. Funeral services will be held at W. B. Todd's chapel at 9 o'clock Thursday morning. Rev. Creswell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this City, will conduct the services at the home. Accompanied by a delegation of Pomona Lodge of Masons, the body will be taken to Monrovia for burial.

(Pomona [Calif.] Daily Review, Jan. 7, 1913; p. 1)

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Children:

(with Eliza in Knox Co., MO)

• William Albert (1857-1917, Riverside, CA)
• Frank Morgan (1859-1939, Los Angeles Co., CA)

(with Mary)

• Ida May (Nov. 1877, MO-after 1918)
• Ernest D. (June 1879, MO-after 1907)