A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 639
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raiser of Bastrop, Texas, is now deceased.
Dr. James S. Douglass was married to Miss
Caroline Mills, who was born in Sumner
county, Tennessee, in 1810, and died in 1841,
in full communion with the Methodist Episcopal
Church. She was considered a consistent
Christian, was universally esteemed and
loved by those who knew ler, and was a
model wife and mother. She was the daughter
of Captain John Mills, a native of Virginia,
and a very wealthy planter and stockraiser
of Sumner county, Tennessee. His
wife was aMrs. Hartgrave, of Kentucky, a
widow with four children when he married
her, one of whom, Jerry Clemens, was United
States Senator from Alabama just prior to
the war. John Mill's parents were Virginians.
Dr. Astyanax M. Douglass was born
in Sumner county, Tennessee, in 1838, and
until thedeath of his mother he made his
home with his parents, but afterward with
his maternal grandfather, John Mills. A
few years later he went to live with an aunt,
Mrs. Ann Sanders, remaining with her until
twenty-oneyears of age, his life up to that
tine beingspent principally at school. He
was educated in Columbian Academy, but
his medical course was taken at Nashville,
Tennessee, where he graduated as an M. D.
in 1861, since which time he has been an
active and very successful practitioner. He
first located in Rankin county, Mississippi,
but soon after cast aside personal considerations
to enlist in the Confederate service in
the Sixth Mississippi Infantry, Company C.
Immediately after the battle of Shiloh he was
promoted to the position of Second Lientenant, and served in that capacity until the war
closed. After participating in the battle of
Shiloh, he was at Corinth, where he was
wounded, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, Jackson,
the engagements of the Georgia campaign,
and was with Hood in Tennessee, being
wounded at the battle of Franklin. He
was left there in the hospital, and after recovering
he rejoined his command and was
in the engagement at Selma, Alabama. At
the close of the war he was paroled at Meridian,
Mississippi. While at Bowling Green,
he was transferred to the Medical Department
as Assistant Surgeon, in which capacity
he acted until after the evacuation of Tennessee,
when he returned to his practice in Sumner
county. In 1866 he came to Texas and
has built up a practice of about $3,500 a
year. He has 700 acres of land well improved
and well stocked; also some valuable
town property. He is a Democrat politically
and organized the first Democratic Club
in the county. His party recognized his services
by electing him to the Fourteenth,
Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies
of the State, and was chairman in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Assemblies on Public
Lands and Land Office, and served as a member
of various other important committees.
He is now serving his tenth year as chairman
of the Democratic Executive Committee of
Hill county. He was president of the Medical
and Surgical Association of the county,
also president of the Medical Examining
Board of the Eighteenth Judicial District;
the Central Texas Medical Association and a
member and Second Vice President forA ND HILLL COUN~NTIEES.
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/679/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.