Ancestry of
Melvyn Douglas

Movie Actor

Sophia Garrett

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• • Great-grandmother of Melvyn Douglas — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Johnson Garrett 
  • Mother:
  • Nancy (Ann) Thomson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Sep 1812 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 3 Jun 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Bellfontaine, Logan, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Erskine Douglas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jul 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky 
  • Child:

  Emma Jane Douglas (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • D.A.R. and S.A.R. records give Sophia Garrett's death date as 16 NOV 1866. But other published sources and the 1880 federal census show that she was still living after 1879.

• Sources for Sophia Garrett

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A033824.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Logan County, 1860, Bellefontaine, p. 28, Image 28 of 65.
  • ³ Federal Census, OH, Logan County, 1850, Lake, Image 17 of 43.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, OH, Logan County, 1880, Bellefontaine, E.D. 115, p. 11, Image 11 of 44.
  • ⁵ Buck, J. Orton and Timothy Field Beard, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume III, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1996), 243.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 279.