Joseph Edward Johnson McDougall

Joseph Edward Johnson McDougall was born in Crenshaw County, Alabama more than 149 years ago on February 6th, 1870 to his Father Alexander McDougall and Mother, Elizabeth Brunson

** Interesting events that occurred around the world during Mr. McDougall's birth year of 1870 included.

• On January 3rd, 1870 construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

• On January 20th, 1870 the SS City of Boston, a British iron-hulled single-screw passenger steamship disappears in the North Atlantic Ocean while en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England. It's 177 passengers are never seen again.

• On June 8th, 1870 English writer Charles Dickens suffers a stroke after a full day's work on his last novel Edwin Drood. He never regaines consciousness.

It was widely rumored that he suffered the stroke while with his mistress Ellen Ternan and that her maids had him taken back to Gad's Hill so the public would not know the truth about their relationship. Dickens dies the next day.

• On July 15th, 1870 the state of Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union during the Reconstruction era.

• On November 27th, 1870 the New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game".

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The Son of a farmer, Joseph Johnson would follow in his hard-working Father's footsteps both in the states of Alabama and Florida.

In 1893 Joseph, 23 marries his Wife, Minnie (16) a native of the Sunshine State as they begin to grow their family @ New Providence, in Crenshaw County Alabama.

** Together Joseph and Minnie have at minimum 6 verifiable children including five Daughters and a single Son. Chronologically their Daughters were Amie, Thurston ( Yes that was their second eldest daughter's name ), Josie, Beatrice, and Sallie. The McDougall's only Son, Alexander was born in 1908.

( Mr. McDougall's obituary states that he had SIX Daughters and a Son but I cannot confirm Daughter number six )

After the turn of the 20th century the McDougall's relocate from Alabama to Palmetto, Florida along the Gulf coast where Joseph with his younger Brothers Millard and Jessie tend to a large farm. According to the Federal census from 1910 Joseph at the age of 40 would likely have been a father figure to Millard who is 21 and Jesse just 16. ( Image of Federal census records from 1900 and 1910 in comments below )

As the calendar transitions through the 1910's, the McDougall's move a tick Northward to the city of Tampa most likely to seek better medical care as Joseph is stricken with tuberculosis.

The disease would eventually take the McDougall Patriarch's life more than a century ago on January 16th, 1919.

Joseph Johnson McDougall... Beloved Husband, Father, Brother, and Son