. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . right in all the relations of life. Both wereinterred at Rileysville. Their children areRobbins Douglass (1801-1876); Electa mar- WAYNE COUNTY. i;i:; ried Jacob Stocker; Nancy was the wife of iJohn Rutledge, of Damascus; Clarissa is the:wile of Seth Yale, of Lebanon township ; Juliamarried Josiah Belknap, of Lebanon ; Elizawife of Jesse Belknap, of Tompkins County,X. Y.; Manila, wife of David Belknap, of the |same place; and Fanny, wife of William \Balkcom, of Lebanon. Of this large familyof children only Nancy and Clarissa survive i
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . right in all the relations of life. Both wereinterred at Rileysville. Their children areRobbins Douglass (1801-1876); Electa mar- WAYNE COUNTY. i;i:; ried Jacob Stocker; Nancy was the wife of iJohn Rutledge, of Damascus; Clarissa is the:wile of Seth Yale, of Lebanon township ; Juliamarried Josiah Belknap, of Lebanon ; Elizawife of Jesse Belknap, of Tompkins County,X. Y.; Manila, wife of David Belknap, of the |same place; and Fanny, wife of William \Balkcom, of Lebanon. Of this large familyof children only Nancy and Clarissa survive in1886. men. He gave his active life to the improve-ment of his property, except as he was calledupon to fill official place in the township ofLebanon as supervisor, school director andother places of trust in the interest of thepeople. He adhered to the principles of theold Whig party, and allied himself to the Re-publican party at its birth in 1855, ardentlysupporting its nominees for place. His first wife, Hannah Balkcom (1805-1833), V 0&S -T&k /. ;iiiNs Robbins Douglass, only son of John Douglass, inherited one hundred acres ofhis fathers real estate—the original homestead—and in 1833 built the present residence, nowoccupied and owned by his son, Gates , together with most of the out-build-ings. He added by purchase during his lifesome three hundred and fifty acres of land, apart of which is situate in Mount Pleasanttownship, which at his death was dividedamong his children. He was a man of firm jconvictions, of unblemished character, good Ijudgment and esteemed by his fellow towns- I bore him children—Hannah S., born in 1824,is the widow of the late John E. Yale, a farmerin Lebanon; Fanny M. (1826-1862), was thewife of Edwin Gager, of Damascus ; Sally R.,born in 1828, is the widow of Benjamin Hol-gate, of Damascus; John was a farmer on apart of the homestead, was married and left oneson ; Robbins born in 1833, is a merchant andfarmer at Co
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