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Ahnentafel Report for Charles Boyd Douglas Generation 1 1. Charles Boyd Douglas son of William Leonard Douglas and Alice Lydia Bruce Allen[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] was born on 01 May 1915 in Afton, Greene, TN[1, 3, 11, 7]. He died on 15 May 2002 in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado[1, 3, 7]. Notes for Charles Boyd Douglas: General Notes: Charles was a member of the United States Navy and served also in the Merchant Marines. He worked for five years for Alcoa Aluminum. He went from there to the Shell Oil company in July of 1944. He worked there until drafted into the U S Navy in 1945. Charles, aka Charlie, enjoyed hunting and fishing. He played both guitar and five-stringed banjo. Charlie remarried after his divorce from Jane and he and his second wife, Madeline, moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where they lived until their deaths. Charlie and his daughters by his first marriage reunited after Madeline's death and the girls went to Grand Junction to meet with him and were able to meet two of his daughters by the second marriage. Madeline refused to meet Jane's children or to even acknowledge that the first marriage and children ever existed. Catherine Jane Lutes daughter of James Ercel Roy Lutes and Gladys Catherine Keebler[12, 4, 13] was born on 20 Mar 1921 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska[12]. She died in Sioux Rapids, Iowa[3]. Notes for Catherine Jane Lutes: General Notes: Jane graduated from San Francisco High School, San Francisco, California. She was born and reared in Omaha, Nebraska. She had her own radio show while in high school on the local network. She studied piano, voice, tap and gymnastics while in school. Jane, or Janie, as she preferred to be called, and Charlie eloped when she was just 21. She sent a letter to her parents from Las Vegas telling them that "by the time you get this letter I will be Mrs. Charles Douglas and there is nothing you can do about it. Jane and Charles should probably never have married. She was young and naive and had no idea what she was getting into and they had very little in common. The marriage ended in divorce. After her marriage to Charles, mother married Raymond Edward Pickrel in December of 1948 in the middle of one of the worst snow storms to hit the area in years. They moved to Elk Horn, Iowa, where Ray had purchased a locker plant and began their new life together. Ray was a butcher by trade. They remained in Elk Horn for the next 13 years. After several bouts with pneumonia, Ray finally had to give up his business and leave Iowa. They then went to Minneapolis for a brief period of about six months, where he was employed as a salesman of locker equipment. That job proved unsatisfying and Jane discovered that it was almost impossible to find a place to live there. They then went to Sonora, California, where Ray worked for his cousin, Elmer Merrihew, in the auto parts business. They first lived on a ranch outside of Sonora, then moved into town to a rental house owned by Elmer. After Katie graduated from high school, Ray and Jane moved back to Iowa, settling in the small town of Kimballton. Ray and Jane managed the local furniture store/mortuary. Their only connection with the mortuary was selling coffins, which is a common part of the furniture store business in the rural areas. He also was assigned to occasionally pick up cadavers to take to the funeral home. From there, Ray went into the business of feed sales and this is what he did for the remainder of his life. While in Sonora, Jane worked for Mundorff's hardware store. She then went to work for a bank, operating the keypunch machines. Jane had attended business school after her divorce and she handled all of the bookwork for the locker plant. Page 1 of 53 Monday, December 6, 2010 4:59:15 AM Ahnentafel Report for Charles Boyd Douglas Generation 1 Jane passed her love of music and singing to her daughters. She had a beautiful voice and loved to sing. She also played the piano for a while, but finally gave both up. In her final years, Jane liked to spend her time bird watching. Unfortunately, she also had a gambling problem and spent a good deal of her declining years at the local casinos. It was discovered that she had been gambling heavily and in one brief period of about four years, had gone through almost $40,000 and was gambling away the revenue from her farm on an annual basis. Jane and her daughters had a falling out in the end and she spent her last remaining years alone. They never spoke again. Charles Boyd Douglas and Catherine Jane Lutes were married in May 1969 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada.They had 5 children. Madeline F Coomer daughter of G Roxie Coomer and Vonda A Coomer[14, 6, 7] was born on 07 Oct 1927 in Big Stone Gap, VA[7]. She died on 05 Feb 1997 in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States of America[14, 6, 15]. Charles Boyd Douglas and Madeline F Coomer were married on 23 May 1947 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA[14].They had 5 children. Generation 2 2. William Leonard Douglas son of George Washington Douglass and Nancy Lay[1, 16, 17, 18, 5, 19, 20, 21, 22, 8, 10, 23, 24] was born on 20 Oct 1858 in Elk Valley, Campbell, TN[1]. He died on 17 Jul 1917 in Kingsport, Sullivan, TN[1]. Notes for William Leonard Douglas: General Notes: William Leonard Douglas is buried in an unmarked grave in Kingsport, Tennessee. Margaret and her husband lived on the Douglas farm in an old log house. Later they built a better house and remained there for several years. William Leonard Douglas was working on a home in Kingsport with his brother. He suffered from sunstroke and the landlady had them move out. His brother, Tom came and got him and he was with his brother when he died. A son buried his father in an unmarked grave over which a rock was placed. Under the rock was placed a piece of paper which was said to contain the words "Pap died today and is buried under this rock." No trace of this rock or paper can now be found. This information is according to family tradition. According to his son, Charles, William Leonard and his first wife never legally divorced, yet both remarried. No record can be found of this first marriage. It is possible that the first marriage was never a legal marriage but was rather, a common-law marriage. William Leonard was said to be a farmer. He was a coal miner in early life and later worked on one of the early dams below Greenville on the Nolachucky River. This is where he was working when he married Alice. According to Charles, William was a womanizer and only returned home long enough to father another child and would then take off again. After six children, she finally ran him off. From Greenville, he went to Kingsport and this is where he was living when he got sick and died. 3. Alice Lydia Bruce Allen daughter of Samuel William Allen and Laura Ellen May Love[25, 1, 16, 17, 5, 10] was born on 26 Nov 1883 in Greenville, Greene, TN/Greenville, Greene Co., NY[25, 1]. She died on 28 Dec 1964 in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee[25, 1]. Page 2 of 53 Monday, December 6, 2010 4:59:15 AM Ahnentafel Report for Charles Boyd Douglas Generation 2 Notes for Alice Lydia Bruce Allen: General Notes: SS#413-68-1524 Alice lived in the rural community of Afton, Tennessee. She still had a farm when she was in her 70s and at one point, wrote that she was 72 years young and still milking her own cows. She was said to have a very sweet disposition. Cause of death is said to be either cereberal hemorage or heart attack. Date of birth is further identified by the 1845 census wherein she is living with her mother, father, sister and grandmother. Birth record B7214030-SS25 820368. Marriage record 7214030 SS26 820368 William Leonard Douglas and Alice Lydia Bruce Allen were married on 25 Jan 1906 in Greenviille, Greene, Tennessee.They had the following children: i. Willie Leonard Douglas[1, 16, 26, 5, 10] was born on 13 Sep 1909 in Elk Valley, Campbell, TN[1]. He married Kathleen Margaret Hall on 04 Nov 1934. He died in 1998[1]. +1. ii. Charles Boyd Douglas[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] was born on 01 May 1915 in Afton, Greene, TN[1, 3, 11, 7]. He married Catherine Jane Lutes in May 1969 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada. He died on 15 May 2002 in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado[1, 3, 7]. iii. Lillie May Douglas[1, 5, 10] was born on 01 Mar 1913 in Home Place Power Dam, Greene, TN[1, 27]. She married Earnest Malone on 25 Jun 1932. She died on 14 Apr 1997 in Dekalb, Illinois[1]. iv. Lawrence Douglas[1, 5, 10] was born on 27 Apr 1911 in Elk Valley, Campbell, TN[1]. He married Stella Fellers on 18 Jan 1932. He died on 09 Jul 1952 in Tennessee[1, 5, 10]. v.

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