WILLIAM B. WELBORN
                         Sugartown, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 197.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


WILLIAM B. WELBORN, Sugartown.-William B. Welborn is a native of Calcasieu
parish. His father was a native of South Carolina and his mother of Louisiana.
The former died in 184o and the latter in 1862.
William B. Welborn was reared on a farm and has given his attention to planting
since the beginning of business life. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in the
Confederate States service and served under Johnson and Bragg until the
close of the war. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Louisa Lee, and to them have
been born seven children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Welborn's father was
English by birth and her mother was a native of South Carolina. She is
a native of Louisiana. Her father died in 1870 and her mother in 1880.