Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 761-763 [Graves]

     HOWARD BOONE DOUTHIT, a successful tobacconist and dealer in
coal at Mayfield, Graves county, although not a native of this
state, has lived here nearly all his life, and has been thoroughly
identified with the tobacco and business interests of western
Kentucky.  He began dealing in the fragrant weed on a small scale,
but his business has grown to considerable proportions, and,
together with his trade in coal, gives him a place among the largest
business men of Mayfield.  He has also done considerable tobacco
farming, and all his endeavors have returned him good rewards.
     Mr. Douthit is the son of Samuel and Margaret (Pepper) Douthit,
the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of South
Carolina.  Samuel Douthit enjoyed a fair common school education,
and devoted his life to agriculture and cotton-raising, in South
Carolina for the greater part of the time.  He had a genius at
mechanics, and was the inventor of a plow for cultivating cotton
which was in use for many years throughout the cotton states, and
its name is still remembered by the old cotton men.  He moved from
South Carolina to Kentucky in 1869, and lived the rest of his life
in Graves county, where he died March 12, 1874, at the age of fifty-four
years.  His wife survived him over twenty years, and died in
Lynnville, Kentucky, in July, 1895, aged sixty-five.  Samuel Douthit
was a private in the Confederate army during the Civil war.  He was
a stanch Democrat, and was held in high regard in every community
where he made his home on account of his excellent qualities of
heart and mind.  The following children were born to him and his
excellent wife: Mary Josephine, the wife of Dr. R. A. Brown, of
Cuba, Kentucky; James Washington, of Texas; Anna, who married Virgil
Davis; Lawrence J., of Graves county; Sallie, who married R. D.
Emerson; Samuel R., of Mayfield, Kentucky; Emma, the wife of P. O.
S. Howard; Howard Boone; and Robert Lee Douthit, of Missouri.
     Howard Boone Douthit was born November 25, 1868, in
Mississippi, during a brief residence of his parents in that state. 
He was shortly afterward brought to Graves county, Kentucky, where
he was reared and given his education in the public schools.  He
also attended Mayfield College, from which he was graduated in 1893. 
His boyhood was spent on the home farm, and he learned the details
of farming, but he began his business career as a buyer in tobacco,
and it is in this line where he has made his principal success. 
This business has been built up from small beginnings, and is now
firmly established on a prosperous footing.  In 1902 he added coal
dealing to his interests, and has also raised tobacco with employed
labor.
     Mr. Douthit is and always has been a Democrat, but with no
aspirations toward political preferment.  He is a member of the
Christian church and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  On February 14,
1895, he was married to Miss Susan Delong Andrus, a native of Graves
county, and they have four children: Vera, who died at the age of
five months; Olea Christine, Leslie and Slayden D.  Mr. and Mrs.
Douthit are popular members of Mayfield society, and their home is
one of the happiest in the city.

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