Bicentennial Story #31-First Burial at Gladstone-1880

Bicentennial Story #31-First Burial at Gladstone-1880

Account of death and burial of Gerald Douglas on July 4, 1880, buried near Gladstone.

6/12/1975

3/10/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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BS-031

Gladstone, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

On July 4, 1880, Jerald Douglas was buried with military honors on a knoll near present Gladstone. Only recently he had received an honorable discharge from the Army and set out with Ed Donnivan along the Keogh Trail headed for Bly's Logging Camp on the Little Missouri. Ambushed and wounded by Indians, they hid in some bushes and the next day were brought to Green River by the Mail Driver. The Army surgeon and Mrs. Shields tended their wounds. Donovan recovered but Douglas died of infection. G.S. Cryne recalled "Some kind hand erected a substantial wooden headboard and burned into the board his name and that he had met death at the hands of Indians."

This is Bicentennial Story No. 31, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

NDH, Vol. 21, p. 123

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