Warren County KyArchives Biographies.....Douglas, William Buchanan January 4, 1815 - October 26, 1887
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William Buchanan Douglas was born on 4 January 1815 on his family's plantation 
near Pattonsburg, Botetourt County,Virginia. He was the first son of John B. 
and Catherine Sence Douglas. He grew up and received a private education on 
the family plantation . His father died when he was just fifteen years old, 
leaving William with a substantial inheritance. 
He married Catherine Fulwiler on 14 June 1841 in Botetourt County, and they 
had four children: Catherine, John W., Gustanza and Evaline. In late 1846 
William arrived in Warren County, Kentucky, with four small children but 
without a wife. Apparently Catherine died shortly before the move to 
Kentucky . On 19 April 1847 he married Martha Elizabeth Alford in Warren 
County. They set up housekeeping on a two-hundred-acre farm on Lost Creek, 
which had been purchased in 1822 by his father and was part of William's 
inherited estate. With his second wife, he had eleven children: James Thomas, 
Elizabeth Ann, Mary Jane, William Jr., Malvinia Frances, Jessee H., Julia, 
Virginia B., Steven Arnold, Martha and Hattie. Many descendants of these 
children still live in the Warren county area today. He continued farming and 
disposing of his property in Virginia until his death on 26 Oct 1887 at his 
home on Lost Creek. where he is buried in the family cemetery. He was a member 
of the Christian Church. 



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