Little is known about Abigail prior to her marriage to Fernando Douglass on January 22, 1857 in Faribault County, Minnesota except that she was born in Vermont. Her date of birth has been inferred from the inscription on her tombstone as noted by the Minnesota Inscription Index for Selected Counties. The date of her death is given on the tombstone along with her age, "61 Yrs 5 mos 13 days". She and Fernando had three children: Ida (who would later marry Albert Battin), Nettie, and Earl Douglass. Earl would eventually become famous as a paleontologist hired by the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to find a "big dinosaur", hopefully in the area near Jensen,Utah. That area had a large outcropping of the perfect type of rock to hold fossils. Douglass made a huge discovery of seven vertebrae of the apatasaurus (similar to but bigger than the brontosaurus) on August 17, 1909 and would end up moving to the area permanently.
Little is known about Abigail prior to her marriage to Fernando Douglass on January 22, 1857 in Faribault County, Minnesota except that she was born in Vermont. Her date of birth has been inferred from the inscription on her tombstone as noted by the Minnesota Inscription Index for Selected Counties. The date of her death is given on the tombstone along with her age, "61 Yrs 5 mos 13 days". She and Fernando had three children: Ida (who would later marry Albert Battin), Nettie, and Earl Douglass. Earl would eventually become famous as a paleontologist hired by the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to find a "big dinosaur", hopefully in the area near Jensen,Utah. That area had a large outcropping of the perfect type of rock to hold fossils. Douglass made a huge discovery of seven vertebrae of the apatasaurus (similar to but bigger than the brontosaurus) on August 17, 1909 and would end up moving to the area permanently.
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Age 61 yrs, 5 mos, 13 days. Wife of Fernando Douglass.
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