Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

DR. CHARLES A. BOURLAND, Muhlenburgh 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 Muhlenburgh 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, Tenn., and located in Muhlenburgh County; two years
later located in Hopkins County, where he practiced for two
years; then again engaged in the dry goods business for two years;
finally returned to Muhlenburgh County, where he has practiced his
profession with success ever since.  His grandfather, Slaton
Bourland, a native of Kentucky, was a speculator and farmer, was
the son of John Bourland, 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 in October 3, 1871, to Eudora J. 
Hays, of Muhlenburgh 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-KY SC TN

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/muhlenberg/bourland.ca2.txt