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Irvin was born in 1861 in Texas. He is the son of Jodie Douglas and Rebecca Evans. [1][2]
He married Maud Jacobs in 1903 in Yuma. [3]
They had four children, Grace Mary (born in Ft. Lowell, Tucson AZ), Volney Marx, Olive, and Irvin Jr. The family moved to Searchlight, Nevada because Irvin found work at a mining camp. Maud was murdered by the Native American serial killer named Queho in 1919. This story was told by Senator Harry Reid in his book "Searchlight: The Camp that Didn't Fail," as he was born there and his grandparents also lived there.[4][5]
Irvin and Maude had just adopted two children whose mother (a relative by marriage) had died of the Spanish flu. The two children were Bertha Kennedy and Leo Kennedy. Their mother was Rosa Kilpatrick who was the sister of Irvin's sister-in-law.
He passed away in 1954 in Tucson AZ.[6] [7]
Sources
- ↑ 1880 US Census, Johnson, Texas
- ↑ 1900 US Census, Queen Creek Precinct, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory
- ↑ County Marriage Records. Arizona History and Archives Division, Phoenix, Arizona (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60873/40657_542110-01127/578736?
- ↑ Searchlight: The Camp that Didn't Fail, by Harry Reid.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid
- ↑ Arizona Department of Health Services. Arizona Death Records.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #6728433
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVVC-RHX : accessed 23 January 2019), Irvin Douglass, Greaterville, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 91, sheet 8B, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 41; FHL microfilm 1,374,054.
