Person:Elizabeth Unknown (5258)

From a profile of her son Otto: Otto B. Donalson, of hte general merchantile firm Donaldson & Jackman, a Altus, Ark., was born at Fort Smith, Ark., June 4, 1842, and is a son of Thomas T. and Elizabeth Donaldson, who were born in Maryland, and at an early day removed to Ohio, thence to Fort Smith, Ark., where they built the first trading establishment in the town. … The father died about 1846 and the mother about 1853. They were quite wealthy, and at hte itme of their deaths owned considerable property, but their papers became lost or destroyed and their children were obliged to suffer hte consequences. The mother was married a second time, and became the mother of one son. R.B. Morrow, who is a wealthy merchant of Greenwood, Ark.

1. ↑ Crawford, Arkansas, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).