Irvin Warren Douglas
                   Irvin & Maud photo courtesy Lena Douglas Stephens


Grace Mary, Ann Olive, Volney Marx, ca. 1912

b. February 16, 1861 (1863?) Texas
d. June 29, 1954 Tucson, Arizona

 Irvin Douglas was born in Texas in 1861 (1863?) and moved to Arizona in 1887. In Yuma in 1903 he married Maude 'Daisy' Jacobs who was born in Washington state in 1880. Irvin held several mining claims, and by 1907 he and Maude had moved from Yuma to Sonoita to homestead 160 acres in the Yucca Ash Road area. They had four children: Grace Mary, Volney Marx, Ann Olive, and Irvin Jr.

 Irvin's mining job took the family to the Searchlight mining camp in Clark County, Nevada in 1918. Tragically, in January 1919, Maude was killed at home and Queho, a Native American was suspected; he was accused of but never convicted for a number of killings, a story told by Senator Harry Reid in his book Searchlight: The Camp that Didn't Fail.

 Irvin and his oldest son, Volney Marx, returned to the Sonoita homestead. By 1935 Irvin's daughter Ann Olive, her husband Emory Stoddard and their seven children, and Grace, her husband Frank Burch and their seven children were all living nearby. Irvin Jr. worked for Mountain States Telephone throughout Arizona. Irvin farmed and ranched on Yucca Ash the rest of his life; he died in 1954, age 93.

Written and edited by Corbin Smith primarily from an article by Alison Bunting in the "Patagonia Regional Times", January 4,2024; an entry by Mark Burch on WikiTree; information shared by Volney Douglas, Irvin's great grandson; and from Betty Barr's "More Hidden Treasures of Santa Cruz County", 2008

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