Obituary of
Amanda Douglas

Republican Northwestern Newspaper, Boone county, IL 8 January 1918

MRS. A.H. DOUGLAS HAS PASSED AWAY.

Pioneer of county died Sunday Evening at the Age of Eighty Nine Years – Had Been Long Nearly Helpless from Injury

Mrs. Amanda H. DOUGLAS, who was one of the pioneer residents of this county, passed away Sunday evening, January 6, at the home of Mrs. And Mrs. W. B. JOHNSON, 19 East Second street. Mrs. Johnson is a daughter of the deceased.

The funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon Jan. 7, at 3 o’clock at the house. The burial will be at Brodhead, Wis.

Mrs. DOUGLAS was 89 years of age on the 8th of last July. She had been confined to her bed fourteen and a half months immediately following a fall by which she was seriously injured. Its effects together with the infirmities of advanced age were the contributing causes of her demise.

Mrs. DOUGLAS had lived for the last three years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. JOHNSON, here, but her home was in Brodhead. Her maiden name was Miss. Amanda HART and she was born in Barkhampstead, Conn., July 8, 1827. Her marriage to Wm. F. HOLCOMB took place at Barkhampstead in 1848 and they came to Belvidere in 1849, settling on a farm in the town of Spring. Their removal to Brohead, Wis., was in 1855. Mr. HOMCOMB died in 1866. Her marriage to John DOUGLAS was in February, 1882. He died in 1898.

There survive the children, Wm F. HOLCOMB, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. W. B. JOHNSON, Belvidere; four grandchildren, Fred M. HOLCOMB, Harold H. JOHNSON, Helen JOHNSON and Foster JOHNSON and four great grandchildren, Elizabeth John JOHNSON, Wm. F. HOLCOMB, Edith JOHNSON and Rachel Ellen JOHNSON. A daughter Louise M. HOLCOMB, passed away at the age of five years.

Mrs. Douglas was a woman of beautiful Christian character and beloved by a multitude of friends. Her demise will be widely mourned and there will be much sympathy for the bereaved relative

Republican Northwestern Newspaper, Boone county, IL 9 January 1918

FUNERAL OF MRS. DOUGLAS

The funeral services for Mrs. Amanda DOUGLAS were held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. JOHNSON, 219 East Second street.

Rev. Mary L. Moreland conducted the services, speaking from the text in the second chapter of the Psalms, “He giveth his beloved sleep”. The singer was Miss Belle TRIPP and Miss Jeannie TRIPP was the piano accompanist.

Many friends were in attendance and there were numerous floral tributes. The relative left with the body on the evening train for Brodhead, Wis., where the burial was to be made.

Submitted by: Julie Hornung

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