Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Lincoln County. 

DR. WILLIAM M. DOORES, of Crab Orchard, Ky., was born in 1830 and is a son
of French Doores, who came from Culpeper County, Va., to Kentucky in 1828,
and located in Boyle County. He was by profession a teacher with which he
combined agriculture. He married Sallie Fisher, of Boyle County, and died
in 1873, and his wife ten years later. The parents of French Doores were
James Doores, a native of England, and Jemimah Jett, a native of Wales.
French and Sallie Doores reared four sons and three daughters, viz: William
M., Robert (deceased), Elizabeth F., Jeremiah F., James E., Nancy B. and
Emily Doores (deceased). Jeremiah was a soldier in the Confederate Army, a
member of Capt. John Garrett's company, and was killed in 1862 at Pleasant
Hill, Mo. Dr. William M. Doores, a prominent physician of Lincoln County,
is the eldest of this family and a resident of Crab Orchard. He was
married, in 1851, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas Thomas and Joanna
Thomas, nee Masterson, of Case County, Mo. They have had seven children,
named as follows: Thomas H. (deceased), Joanna A., Ella F. (deceased),
Sallie F., Mary B. (deceased), Annie L. and Leila A. Doores. Dr. Doores
served as a soldier in the Confederate Army under Gen. Sterling Price and
participated in the battles of Wilson Creek, Dry Wood, Lexington, Lone
Jack, Helena (Ark.), Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove and many other engagements,
and during his term of service was four times wounded. Since the war he has
been a resident of Lincoln County and engaged in the practice of his
profession.