Patti Brown, of Woodland, approaches the memorial placed at the site where her great-grandfather, Nevada County Sheriff David Douglass, was shot and killed in the line of duty 125 years ago while pursuing a highwayman. Brown and her husband Frank Brown were accompanied by Sgt. Andrew Liller, Sheriff Shannan Moon, and Lt. Sean Scales with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office.
Photo: Elias Funez
When Sheriff David Fulton Douglass’ great-granddaughter Patti Brown visited her slain ancestor’s monument on Old Airport Road, she admits that she wasn’t quite sure how she’d feel about the visit.
But when she saw the monument to Douglass for the first time on Sunday, accompanied by her husband Frank Brown as well as several Nevada County sheriff’s officers, including Sheriff Shannon Moon, there was no doubt about the level of emotion Brown was feeling as she looked at the granite headstone dedicated to her ancestor, which sits in the midst of a heavily forested area just a few miles north of the Sheriff’s Office.