The sale of McDougald Oil Company a few months ago to Bulloch County natives Greg Sikes and Chris Thompson marks the end of McDougald family ownership as one of Bulloch County's oldest family owned businesses. When A.B. McDougald, Jr. founded the company in 1929, the country was entering into the Great Depression. Even though it was not the best year to start a business, he saw a need in supplying the vast number of area farmers with much needed fuel.