He married Mary Orr in Gibson Co., IN on 11 Mar 1875 and they had 9 children with only 5 making it to adulthood.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; Princeton, Indiana; 07 Sep 1905, Thu; Page 3
History of the Dougan Family
About the year 1750 a little Irish boy was born In North Ireland. His father's name was Dougan and this boy was christened James. His father emigrated to America when James was a small boy, and settled in the colony of North Carolina. Here James lived to manhood, and married in North Carolina, and was a man of a family when the war of Independence came on.
Although he lived in a neighborhood of Tories, he and his people were staunch patriots, and James and his brother John enlisted in the colonial army, in one of the organizations of North Carolina, and served under General Green. They served through said war, and were at the surrender of General Cornwallis, at York town. When the war closed, they returned to their home in the old north state, where they lived for several years. For their service the State of North Carolina gave them each a tract of land in Tennesee, which North Carolina owned at that time as a territory. The grant was for 2360 acres apiece, and was located in western Tennesee.
In the year 1781, to James Dougan was born a son. He was named Samuel. When Samuel was twenty years old, he married Mary Dickey, also twenty years old, and this young couple emigrated from the state of North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then a new and wonderful land. Here five children were born to them, Hannah, George, Nancy, James and Alabama.
About the year 1812, the Cherokee country in Alabama, was opened for settlement, and the land was sold by the government at auction. Samuel Dougan with several of his neighbors, attended one of the sales, and Dougan bought a tract of land and moved to it. His home here was where the city of Huntsville now stands. The big spring of that place was near his dwelling, and they got their water supply from it. Here his father James, came to him from North Carolina, Samuel's mother was dead, and his father was a widower. James was not here long, until he began to talk of his grant of land he had got for his service in the army, and wanted his son to move to it. This was a hard thing to do, as the country was unsettled and there were no roads, but strong desire overcomes difficulty. An old Indian agreed to pass on before and pick out the route, which he did by blazing the trees.
They started on this journey of about two hundred miles and quite a number of families went with them. They followed the blazes and other signs of the Indian, and finally landed on James Dougan's land grant, which is part of the land occupied now by the town of Dyersburg. They landed here late in the fall and went into camp until houses could be built.
They had no grain except what they were to use for seed the following year, and were compelled to live without bread until corn could be raised the following year on ground then covered with timbers. They lived entirely on wild game killed in the woods. Colonel Davy Crockett lived near them, and was of great assistance to them in this wild country. They found the land that they had traveled so far to obtain to be largely swamp land, covered with cypress timber and subject to great overflow. They lived till the three older children of Samuel were married.
About the year 1830 the state of Indiana was thought to be about the greatest land in the world. It was to the people of Tennessee what Oklahoma was to the Hoosier a few years ago: it was a land of promise. The Dougans had talked much of emigrating to Indiana, so in the year 1830, Samuel Dougan and Aaron Wallace, his son-in-law, decided to make a trip to the Hoosier State and take a look at it. They came and took a place west of Princeton and decided to move next Spring, but Dougan took sick on his way back home and lived but a short time after he reached home. The rest of the family decided to come to Indiana the next Spring as Dougan had intended to do, but thought best to send James and Samuel, the two unmarried sons, on ahead and let them put in a crop, which they did. Then in the fall of 1831, all the families came to Indiana and all settled in Gibson county.
This was the advent of the Dougan family in Gibson county. George Duncan the oldest son of Samuel lived for many years in Princeton. He lived on Main street about three blocks south of the square.
James, the second son, lived west of Kings Station. He sold his place to James Patterson and moved to Kansas In 1856. He was very active in the border warfare which came on in that state and worked with old John Brown and others to make Kansas a free state.
Samuel Dougan, the youngest son of Samuel, lived for many years on the farm now the home of Joe Heston, and is the father of John Dougan, who lives near Oakland City, and Albert, Robert and Jonathan, of Princeton.
Hannah the oldest daughter married Aaron Wallace, and is ancestor to all the Wallaces near Kings station.
Nancy the youngest daughter married Samuel Emmerson who was the father of the writer, James R. Emmerson, Mary E. Mead, of Ft. Branch, and Mrs. H. C. Vickers, of Oakland City, Ind.
This is the history of the Dougan family and their descendants in Gibson county as I have it from my ancestors and records I have in my possession.
L. O. EMMERSON.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; 17 Jul 1909, Sat; Page 2' Princeton, Indiana
AN OLD ESTATE IS SOON TO PASS INTO HANDS OF GIBSON COUNTY HEIRS
Will be Paid for Property - Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Decision of Year Ago
OAKLAND CITY. lnd., July 17 - By a decision given recently by the supreme court of Tennessee, upholding the decision a year ago by the lower court, the heirs of the Dougan estate, originally embracing 2,300 acres of land, will receive their allotments at once. The people who will benefit by the decision are scattered over southern Indiana and are many in number. Several live in this county.
The land came into the possesion of James Dougan in 1780 in the form of a government grant, tendered him for payment for services in the rev olutionary war. At Mr. Dougan's death a part of it was sold by his sons, Samuel and George Dougan, who with their families then moved to this county. The land left unsold, amounting to nine hundred acres, was thought of little value.
As land values rose squatters settled on the estate and a large saw mill was erected there and great quantities of timber cut. Finally one of the squatters brought suit in the Tennessee courts to quiet title to his portion of the land. In the advertising attending this suit L. O. Emmerson, of this city, recognized the land as a part of the old Dougan estate and began suit for possession. The case was won in the lower court and appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the lower court's decision and ordered the land conveyed to the heirs of James and George Dougan. The sawmill company was also ordered to pay for timber used from the estate.
Among those who will benefit from the division of the estate are Mary E. Mead and Mrs. Tabitha Crilley, of Ft. Branch; Mrs. Melissa Vickers, of Oakland City; Mrs. Charity Harper of Muncie; George White, of Princeton; Mrs. George Maxam and Mrs. Sylvester Maxam, living near Francisco.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; Princeton, Indiana; 07 Sep 1905, Thu; Page 3
History of the Dougan Family
About the year 1750 a little Irish boy was born In North Ireland. His father's name was Dougan and this boy was christened James. His father emigrated to America when James was a small boy, and settled in the colony of North Carolina. Here James lived to manhood, and married in North Carolina, and was a man of a family when the war of Independence came on.
Although he lived in a neighborhood of Tories, he and his people were staunch patriots, and James and his brother John enlisted in the colonial army, in one of the organizations of North Carolina, and served under General Green. They served through said war, and were at the surrender of General Cornwallis, at York town. When the war closed, they returned to their home in the old north state, where they lived for several years. For their service the State of North Carolina gave them each a tract of land in Tennesee, which North Carolina owned at that time as a territory. The grant was for 2360 acres apiece, and was located in western Tennesee.
In the year 1781, to James Dougan was born a son. He was named Samuel. When Samuel was twenty years old, he married Mary Dickey, also twenty years old, and this young couple emigrated from the state of North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then a new and wonderful land. Here five children were born to them, Hannah, George, Nancy, James and Alabama.
About the year 1812, the Cherokee country in Alabama, was opened for settlement, and the land was sold by the government at auction. Samuel Dougan with several of his neighbors, attended one of the sales, and Dougan bought a tract of land and moved to it. His home here was where the city of Huntsville now stands. The big spring of that place was near his dwelling, and they got their water supply from it. Here his father James, came to him from North Carolina, Samuel's mother was dead, and his father was a widower. James was not here long, until he began to talk of his grant of land he had got for his service in the army, and wanted his son to move to it. This was a hard thing to do, as the country was unsettled and there were no roads, but strong desire overcomes difficulty. An old Indian agreed to pass on before and pick out the route, which he did by blazing the trees.
They started on this journey of about two hundred miles and quite a number of families went with them. They followed the blazes and other signs of the Indian, and finally landed on James Dougan's land grant, which is part of the land occupied now by the town of Dyersburg. They landed here late in the fall and went into camp until houses could be built.
They had no grain except what they were to use for seed the following year, and were compelled to live without bread until corn could be raised the following year on ground then covered with timbers. They lived entirely on wild game killed in the woods. Colonel Davy Crockett lived near them, and was of great assistance to them in this wild country. They found the land that they had traveled so far to obtain to be largely swamp land, covered with cypress timber and subject to great overflow. They lived till the three older children of Samuel were married.
About the year 1830 the state of Indiana was thought to be about the greatest land in the world. It was to the people of Tennessee what Oklahoma was to the Hoosier a few years ago: it was a land of promise. The Dougans had talked much of emigrating to Indiana, so in the year 1830, Samuel Dougan and Aaron Wallace, his son-in-law, decided to make a trip to the Hoosier State and take a look at it. They came and took a place west of Princeton and decided to move next Spring, but Dougan took sick on his way back home and lived but a short time after he reached home. The rest of the family decided to come to Indiana the next Spring as Dougan had intended to do, but thought best to send James and Samuel, the two unmarried sons, on ahead and let them put in a crop, which they did. Then in the fall of 1831, all the families came to Indiana and all settled in Gibson county.
This was the advent of the Dougan family in Gibson county. George Duncan the oldest son of Samuel lived for many years in Princeton. He lived on Main street about three blocks south of the square.
James, the second son, lived west of Kings Station. He sold his place to James Patterson and moved to Kansas In 1856. He was very active in the border warfare which came on in that state and worked with old John Brown and others to make Kansas a free state.
Samuel Dougan, the youngest son of Samuel, lived for many years on the farm now the home of Joe Heston, and is the father of John Dougan, who lives near Oakland City, and Albert, Robert and Jonathan, of Princeton.
Hannah the oldest daughter married Aaron Wallace, and is ancestor to all the Wallaces near Kings station.
Nancy the youngest daughter married Samuel Emmerson who was the father of the writer, James R. Emmerson, Mary E. Mead, of Ft. Branch, and Mrs. H. C. Vickers, of Oakland City, Ind.
This is the history of the Dougan family and their descendants in Gibson county as I have it from my ancestors and records I have in my possession.
L. O. EMMERSON.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; 17 Jul 1909, Sat; Page 2' Princeton, Indiana
AN OLD ESTATE IS SOON TO PASS INTO HANDS OF GIBSON COUNTY HEIRS
Will be Paid for Property - Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Decision of Year Ago
OAKLAND CITY. lnd., July 17 - By a decision given recently by the supreme court of Tennessee, upholding the decision a year ago by the lower court, the heirs of the Dougan estate, originally embracing 2,300 acres of land, will receive their allotments at once. The people who will benefit by the decision are scattered over southern Indiana and are many in number. Several live in this county.
The land came into the possesion of James Dougan in 1780 in the form of a government grant, tendered him for payment for services in the rev olutionary war. At Mr. Dougan's death a part of it was sold by his sons, Samuel and George Dougan, who with their families then moved to this county. The land left unsold, amounting to nine hundred acres, was thought of little value.
As land values rose squatters settled on the estate and a large saw mill was erected there and great quantities of timber cut. Finally one of the squatters brought suit in the Tennessee courts to quiet title to his portion of the land. In the advertising attending this suit L. O. Emmerson, of this city, recognized the land as a part of the old Dougan estate and began suit for possession. The case was won in the lower court and appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the lower court's decision and ordered the land conveyed to the heirs of James and George Dougan. The sawmill company was also ordered to pay for timber used from the estate.
Among those who will benefit from the division of the estate are Mary E. Mead and Mrs. Tabitha Crilley, of Ft. Branch; Mrs. Melissa Vickers, of Oakland City; Mrs. Charity Harper of Muncie; George White, of Princeton; Mrs. George Maxam and Mrs. Sylvester Maxam, living near Francisco.
He married Mary Orr in Gibson Co., IN on 11 Mar 1875 and they had 9 children with only 5 making it to adulthood.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; Princeton, Indiana; 07 Sep 1905, Thu; Page 3
History of the Dougan Family
About the year 1750 a little Irish boy was born In North Ireland. His father's name was Dougan and this boy was christened James. His father emigrated to America when James was a small boy, and settled in the colony of North Carolina. Here James lived to manhood, and married in North Carolina, and was a man of a family when the war of Independence came on.
Although he lived in a neighborhood of Tories, he and his people were staunch patriots, and James and his brother John enlisted in the colonial army, in one of the organizations of North Carolina, and served under General Green. They served through said war, and were at the surrender of General Cornwallis, at York town. When the war closed, they returned to their home in the old north state, where they lived for several years. For their service the State of North Carolina gave them each a tract of land in Tennesee, which North Carolina owned at that time as a territory. The grant was for 2360 acres apiece, and was located in western Tennesee.
In the year 1781, to James Dougan was born a son. He was named Samuel. When Samuel was twenty years old, he married Mary Dickey, also twenty years old, and this young couple emigrated from the state of North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then a new and wonderful land. Here five children were born to them, Hannah, George, Nancy, James and Alabama.
About the year 1812, the Cherokee country in Alabama, was opened for settlement, and the land was sold by the government at auction. Samuel Dougan with several of his neighbors, attended one of the sales, and Dougan bought a tract of land and moved to it. His home here was where the city of Huntsville now stands. The big spring of that place was near his dwelling, and they got their water supply from it. Here his father James, came to him from North Carolina, Samuel's mother was dead, and his father was a widower. James was not here long, until he began to talk of his grant of land he had got for his service in the army, and wanted his son to move to it. This was a hard thing to do, as the country was unsettled and there were no roads, but strong desire overcomes difficulty. An old Indian agreed to pass on before and pick out the route, which he did by blazing the trees.
They started on this journey of about two hundred miles and quite a number of families went with them. They followed the blazes and other signs of the Indian, and finally landed on James Dougan's land grant, which is part of the land occupied now by the town of Dyersburg. They landed here late in the fall and went into camp until houses could be built.
They had no grain except what they were to use for seed the following year, and were compelled to live without bread until corn could be raised the following year on ground then covered with timbers. They lived entirely on wild game killed in the woods. Colonel Davy Crockett lived near them, and was of great assistance to them in this wild country. They found the land that they had traveled so far to obtain to be largely swamp land, covered with cypress timber and subject to great overflow. They lived till the three older children of Samuel were married.
About the year 1830 the state of Indiana was thought to be about the greatest land in the world. It was to the people of Tennessee what Oklahoma was to the Hoosier a few years ago: it was a land of promise. The Dougans had talked much of emigrating to Indiana, so in the year 1830, Samuel Dougan and Aaron Wallace, his son-in-law, decided to make a trip to the Hoosier State and take a look at it. They came and took a place west of Princeton and decided to move next Spring, but Dougan took sick on his way back home and lived but a short time after he reached home. The rest of the family decided to come to Indiana the next Spring as Dougan had intended to do, but thought best to send James and Samuel, the two unmarried sons, on ahead and let them put in a crop, which they did. Then in the fall of 1831, all the families came to Indiana and all settled in Gibson county.
This was the advent of the Dougan family in Gibson county. George Duncan the oldest son of Samuel lived for many years in Princeton. He lived on Main street about three blocks south of the square.
James, the second son, lived west of Kings Station. He sold his place to James Patterson and moved to Kansas In 1856. He was very active in the border warfare which came on in that state and worked with old John Brown and others to make Kansas a free state.
Samuel Dougan, the youngest son of Samuel, lived for many years on the farm now the home of Joe Heston, and is the father of John Dougan, who lives near Oakland City, and Albert, Robert and Jonathan, of Princeton.
Hannah the oldest daughter married Aaron Wallace, and is ancestor to all the Wallaces near Kings station.
Nancy the youngest daughter married Samuel Emmerson who was the father of the writer, James R. Emmerson, Mary E. Mead, of Ft. Branch, and Mrs. H. C. Vickers, of Oakland City, Ind.
This is the history of the Dougan family and their descendants in Gibson county as I have it from my ancestors and records I have in my possession.
L. O. EMMERSON.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; 17 Jul 1909, Sat; Page 2' Princeton, Indiana
AN OLD ESTATE IS SOON TO PASS INTO HANDS OF GIBSON COUNTY HEIRS
Will be Paid for Property - Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Decision of Year Ago
OAKLAND CITY. lnd., July 17 - By a decision given recently by the supreme court of Tennessee, upholding the decision a year ago by the lower court, the heirs of the Dougan estate, originally embracing 2,300 acres of land, will receive their allotments at once. The people who will benefit by the decision are scattered over southern Indiana and are many in number. Several live in this county.
The land came into the possesion of James Dougan in 1780 in the form of a government grant, tendered him for payment for services in the rev olutionary war. At Mr. Dougan's death a part of it was sold by his sons, Samuel and George Dougan, who with their families then moved to this county. The land left unsold, amounting to nine hundred acres, was thought of little value.
As land values rose squatters settled on the estate and a large saw mill was erected there and great quantities of timber cut. Finally one of the squatters brought suit in the Tennessee courts to quiet title to his portion of the land. In the advertising attending this suit L. O. Emmerson, of this city, recognized the land as a part of the old Dougan estate and began suit for possession. The case was won in the lower court and appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the lower court's decision and ordered the land conveyed to the heirs of James and George Dougan. The sawmill company was also ordered to pay for timber used from the estate.
Among those who will benefit from the division of the estate are Mary E. Mead and Mrs. Tabitha Crilley, of Ft. Branch; Mrs. Melissa Vickers, of Oakland City; Mrs. Charity Harper of Muncie; George White, of Princeton; Mrs. George Maxam and Mrs. Sylvester Maxam, living near Francisco.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; Princeton, Indiana; 07 Sep 1905, Thu; Page 3
History of the Dougan Family
About the year 1750 a little Irish boy was born In North Ireland. His father's name was Dougan and this boy was christened James. His father emigrated to America when James was a small boy, and settled in the colony of North Carolina. Here James lived to manhood, and married in North Carolina, and was a man of a family when the war of Independence came on.
Although he lived in a neighborhood of Tories, he and his people were staunch patriots, and James and his brother John enlisted in the colonial army, in one of the organizations of North Carolina, and served under General Green. They served through said war, and were at the surrender of General Cornwallis, at York town. When the war closed, they returned to their home in the old north state, where they lived for several years. For their service the State of North Carolina gave them each a tract of land in Tennesee, which North Carolina owned at that time as a territory. The grant was for 2360 acres apiece, and was located in western Tennesee.
In the year 1781, to James Dougan was born a son. He was named Samuel. When Samuel was twenty years old, he married Mary Dickey, also twenty years old, and this young couple emigrated from the state of North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then a new and wonderful land. Here five children were born to them, Hannah, George, Nancy, James and Alabama.
About the year 1812, the Cherokee country in Alabama, was opened for settlement, and the land was sold by the government at auction. Samuel Dougan with several of his neighbors, attended one of the sales, and Dougan bought a tract of land and moved to it. His home here was where the city of Huntsville now stands. The big spring of that place was near his dwelling, and they got their water supply from it. Here his father James, came to him from North Carolina, Samuel's mother was dead, and his father was a widower. James was not here long, until he began to talk of his grant of land he had got for his service in the army, and wanted his son to move to it. This was a hard thing to do, as the country was unsettled and there were no roads, but strong desire overcomes difficulty. An old Indian agreed to pass on before and pick out the route, which he did by blazing the trees.
They started on this journey of about two hundred miles and quite a number of families went with them. They followed the blazes and other signs of the Indian, and finally landed on James Dougan's land grant, which is part of the land occupied now by the town of Dyersburg. They landed here late in the fall and went into camp until houses could be built.
They had no grain except what they were to use for seed the following year, and were compelled to live without bread until corn could be raised the following year on ground then covered with timbers. They lived entirely on wild game killed in the woods. Colonel Davy Crockett lived near them, and was of great assistance to them in this wild country. They found the land that they had traveled so far to obtain to be largely swamp land, covered with cypress timber and subject to great overflow. They lived till the three older children of Samuel were married.
About the year 1830 the state of Indiana was thought to be about the greatest land in the world. It was to the people of Tennessee what Oklahoma was to the Hoosier a few years ago: it was a land of promise. The Dougans had talked much of emigrating to Indiana, so in the year 1830, Samuel Dougan and Aaron Wallace, his son-in-law, decided to make a trip to the Hoosier State and take a look at it. They came and took a place west of Princeton and decided to move next Spring, but Dougan took sick on his way back home and lived but a short time after he reached home. The rest of the family decided to come to Indiana the next Spring as Dougan had intended to do, but thought best to send James and Samuel, the two unmarried sons, on ahead and let them put in a crop, which they did. Then in the fall of 1831, all the families came to Indiana and all settled in Gibson county.
This was the advent of the Dougan family in Gibson county. George Duncan the oldest son of Samuel lived for many years in Princeton. He lived on Main street about three blocks south of the square.
James, the second son, lived west of Kings Station. He sold his place to James Patterson and moved to Kansas In 1856. He was very active in the border warfare which came on in that state and worked with old John Brown and others to make Kansas a free state.
Samuel Dougan, the youngest son of Samuel, lived for many years on the farm now the home of Joe Heston, and is the father of John Dougan, who lives near Oakland City, and Albert, Robert and Jonathan, of Princeton.
Hannah the oldest daughter married Aaron Wallace, and is ancestor to all the Wallaces near Kings station.
Nancy the youngest daughter married Samuel Emmerson who was the father of the writer, James R. Emmerson, Mary E. Mead, of Ft. Branch, and Mrs. H. C. Vickers, of Oakland City, Ind.
This is the history of the Dougan family and their descendants in Gibson county as I have it from my ancestors and records I have in my possession.
L. O. EMMERSON.
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Princeton Daily Clarion; 17 Jul 1909, Sat; Page 2' Princeton, Indiana
AN OLD ESTATE IS SOON TO PASS INTO HANDS OF GIBSON COUNTY HEIRS
Will be Paid for Property - Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Decision of Year Ago
OAKLAND CITY. lnd., July 17 - By a decision given recently by the supreme court of Tennessee, upholding the decision a year ago by the lower court, the heirs of the Dougan estate, originally embracing 2,300 acres of land, will receive their allotments at once. The people who will benefit by the decision are scattered over southern Indiana and are many in number. Several live in this county.
The land came into the possesion of James Dougan in 1780 in the form of a government grant, tendered him for payment for services in the rev olutionary war. At Mr. Dougan's death a part of it was sold by his sons, Samuel and George Dougan, who with their families then moved to this county. The land left unsold, amounting to nine hundred acres, was thought of little value.
As land values rose squatters settled on the estate and a large saw mill was erected there and great quantities of timber cut. Finally one of the squatters brought suit in the Tennessee courts to quiet title to his portion of the land. In the advertising attending this suit L. O. Emmerson, of this city, recognized the land as a part of the old Dougan estate and began suit for possession. The case was won in the lower court and appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the lower court's decision and ordered the land conveyed to the heirs of James and George Dougan. The sawmill company was also ordered to pay for timber used from the estate.
Among those who will benefit from the division of the estate are Mary E. Mead and Mrs. Tabitha Crilley, of Ft. Branch; Mrs. Melissa Vickers, of Oakland City; Mrs. Charity Harper of Muncie; George White, of Princeton; Mrs. George Maxam and Mrs. Sylvester Maxam, living near Francisco.
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