Sarah Fisk Douglass

(1789–1869)

BIRTH

March 24, 1789

PLACE

Brandon, Vermont

NAME

Sarah Fisk

DEATH

May 30, 1869

PLACE

Canandaigua, New York, United States

FAMILY

HUSBAND

Stephen Arnold Douglass

(died 1813)

CHILDREN

Stephen A. Douglas

(1813-1861)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

Sarah “Sally” Fisk Douglass was the mother of U.S. senator Stephen A. Douglas. After physician Stephen Arnold Douglass died in 1813, she later married Gehazi Granger.

EARLY LIFE

After her husband Stephen Arnold Douglass died in 1813, Sarah Fisk Douglass raised their two children on her brother's nearby Vermont farm. She later married Gehazi Granger. The Granger family moved to upstate New York in 1830, according to the University of Chicago's description of her son's papers.

CAREER

DEATH

Sarah Fisk Douglass Granger died in Canandaigua, New York, in 1869, according to the Arnold family memorial. A separate genealogical source gives May 30 as the day; the consulted sources do not identify a cause or burial place.