LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Dr. Charles Bourland Was Descendant Of Pocahontas on His Father's
Side

DR. CHARLES A. BOURLAND, Muhlenberg County, was born in
Madisonville, Hopkins Co., KY, and is the fifth of seven children
- five boys and two girls - born to Thomas O. and Patience
(Julin) Bourland, natives of Kentucky, respectively; on the
mother's side of Irish descent, and on the father's descended
from Pocahontas.  Thomas O. was engaged in the grocery and
furniture business in Madisonville, and died in 1854.  Dr.
Bourland lived with his mother in Madisonville after his father's
death, later moved to Murray, in the Purchase.  In 1859, he
returned to Madisonville, where he attended Prof. Phipps two
sessions;  taught one term and then engaged as salesman in a dry
goods house in Madisonville for eight years; was one year in a
notion store in Evansville; in 1866, engaged in the dry goods
business with Thomas Finley, in Madisonville, for one year;
thence to Muhlenberg County, where he sold goods at Earl's
Postoffice with Thomas C. Summers, and read medicine at the same
time for two years with Dr. Hays.  In 1868, he attended lectures
at Nashville, TN, and located in Muhlenberg County; two years
later located in Hopkins County; where he practiced for two
years, then engaged in the dry goods business for two years;
finally returned to Muhlenberg County, where he has practiced his
profession with success ever since.  His grandfather, Slaton
Bourland, a native of Kentucky, was a speculator and farmer, who
was a Baptist minister.  The mother of our subject was the
daughter of John Julin, who was reared in South Carolina.  Dr.
Bourland was married on October 3, 1871, to Eudora J. Hays, of
Muhlenberg County, a daughter of Dr. John B. and Anna (Bell)
Hays, natives of Tennessee.  To this union four children were
born: William O., Elma M., Anna W. and Effie.  Dr. and Mrs.
Bourland are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  He
is a member of the F.& A.M.

Bourland, Julin, Phipps, Finley, Summers, Hays, Bell
=
Hopkins, SC, TN

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