Chesterfield, SC 29709
Business District Crossing Streets
207 Scotch Road

Walter J. Douglass House Site

Mrs. Douglass Piano Recital Program
  Elizabeth Ann Gaddy Rivers: Mr. Douglass had an insurance agency in the back of the old bank building. "Miss" Mattie was from Wingate, and she taught music at her house. I took music from her for several years. They had two sons. The older boy was W. J. Douglass, and he may have been a professor at Wake Forest. The younger son was named Donald Perry Douglass. He and Plume were classmates, but he finished prep school and went to Wake Forest. He became a surgeon at Bowman-Gray in Winston-Salem.

James W. Jenkins: I recall hearing stories about Mr. Douglas and his cow. I recall personally that he staked the cow where he could find grass for the cow to eat (usually along the old railroad bed), but I was too young to know about the stories that the cow was frightened by the train and by a band causing it to run away.

Katherine Ward Rivers Braswell: Mrs. Mattie Douglass taught piano. She was a Perry before she married and may have been kin to Dr. William Perry.
 

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