Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Douthit, William H. March 29 1845 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    WILLIAM H. DOUTHIT, a merchant of Blocton, Ala., was born in Tuscaloosa
county, Ala., March 29, 1845. He is a son of Hubbard and Mary E. (McGhee)
Douthit, both of whom were natives of North Carolina. The father of Mrs.
Douthit, William McGee, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, was born in Virginia,
was largely interested in gold mines in Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama,
and early moved to Jacksonville, Ala., where both himself and wife lived the
rest of their lives. The father of our subject was reared in the town of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he studied and afterwards practiced law. He was the
father of eight children, two sons and six daughters, three only of whom are
living, viz: William H., Sarah E., and Charles F., a liveryman at Birmingham,
Ala. Sarah E., is the wife of Capt. J. P. Bartee, a steamboat captain. The other
children died in infancy. Their father died in Mobile in 1870, and their mother
in 1878.. Both were members of the Episcopal church. W. H. Douthit was raised in
Tuscaloosa, where he attended school. At the youthful age of fifteen years he
enlisted in company K, Twentieth Alabama infantry, under Captain Joseph C.
Guild, serving from 1861 to the close of the war. He participated in several of
the severest battles of the war, among them the siege of Vicksburg, Lookout
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the campaign of Atlanta, the battle of Kingston, N.
C., in which he received what was in reality only a slight wound in the left
breast, but which was considered by him a very close call. At the close of the
war he returned home and was appointed city marshal of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Afterward he learned the printers' trade and followed it eighteen years. In 1883
he removed to Blocton, Ala., where he engaged in the bakery and hotel business,
continuing in the same business for eight years. He then sold out and
established a general store, which he is now conducting. He was married in 1879
to Mary Striplan, who was born in Mississippi in 1863, by whom he has had three
children, viz : Willie and Maud, living, and an infant which died quite young.
Mrs. Douthit is a member of the Episcopal church and Mr. Douthit is a member of
the Knights of Pythias and of the Order of Red Men.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 482-483

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