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George W. Southers (1866-1890)

2012-02-09T19:32:00.000-06:00

George W. Southers, a young man who was badly injured yesterday in a wreck three miles east of Santo, Texas, (Palo Pinto County) died January 28th, 1890 in Weatherford. He had been taken there for medical attention and his leg was amputated.

Mr. Southers was scheduled to have been married to Miss May Emmitt of Bloomington, Illinois and had made arrangements for a home in Fort Worth. After he was hurt he told his conductor, Mr. Smith, to write and tell Miss Emmitt he was badly hurt and could not recover, and that he was over with all his trials and troubles in this world.

He was a man of about 24 years of age, a sober and industrious young person, and his untimely death is deeply deplored by all who knew him. He will be buried at Gouldsboro, Louisiana, where his parents reside.

= = based on an obituary in the Galveston Daily News, 30 Jan 1890. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Walter Bassel Jackson, M.D. (1879-1955)

2012-02-05T13:42:00.000-06:00

Dr. Walter Bassel Jackson of Waxahachie, Texas, died at his home on June 29th, 1955 of a kidney ailment. He was born February 5th, 1879 in Ozro, Texas, to John and Susan Jackson. After receiving his early education in Maypearl, he attended Northern Indiana Normal School and was a graduate in pharmacy from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1906. He took his medical training at the University of the South in Nashville, Tennessee, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dallas, from which he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1907.

After practicing briefly in Alvarado, Texas, Dr. Jackson settled in Waxahachie, where he practiced from 1915 until his death. He was past president of the Ellis County Medical Society, and was a member of the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He served as city health officer in both Alvarado and Waxahachie and as a medical examiner during both World Wars. He was a member of the Christian Church, the Odd Fellows Lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

Dr. Jackson and Miss Alice Mansfield were married on September 21, 1900 in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Survivors include Mrs. Jackson, one daughter, Mrs. A.W. Simpson of Dallas; three sons, Buford Jackson, Hayden Jackson and Dick Jackson, all of Waxahachie; and two brothers, Calvin Jackson and Jack Jackson, both of Maypearl.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the doctor's career.

Charles Edward Davis, M.D. (1926-1955)

2012-01-30T15:45:00.001-06:00

Dr. Charles Edward Davis, anesthesiologist, died at his home in Austin, Texas, on his twenty-ninth birthday, June 4, 1955, of chronic glomerulonephritis. He was the son of Charles P. and Nell May Davis, and was born on June 4, 1926 in Magnet, Nebraska. He attended high school in North Platte, and when he was thirteen he began working after school in the local hospital. He spent one year at the University of Nebraska, then went to the University of Idaho at Pocatello, where he graduated in 1945.

He received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1949. He then interned for one year at the Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. He began a general residency at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, but was recalled to active duty with the Naval Medical Corps in October, 1950.

He was commissioned as a lieutenant jg, and after several months in the United States, was sent to Korea where he maintained a battalion aid station for the Army with the Twenty-Fourth Division. He was awarded a United Nations Citation for his service. In 1951, he was transferred to the naval hospital in Oceanside, California, and shortly after this, he became ill and was hospitalized there until 1953, when he was retired by the Navy. He returned to Austin and worked with the Austin Anesthesiology Group until January 1955, when he went to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas as a resident in anesthesia.

Dr. Davis was a member of the Travis County Medical Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and the Christian Church. He enjoyed flying and sailing, and received his private pilot's license when he was seventeen.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Davis, and two sisters, Miss Madelon Elaine Davis and Mrs. Florine Branch, all of Austin.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Davis' career.

Rex Edward Van Duzen, M.D. (1893-1955)

2012-01-25T14:25:00.002-06:00

Dr. Rex Edward Van Duzen of Dallas, Texas, urologist, died in a local hospital on May 24, 1955, following a brief illness. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and in 1954 served as chairman of the Urology Section of the American Medical Association. He was an honorary member of the Mexico Society of Urology; his other medical affiliations included membership in the American Urology Association, the Pan American Medical Association, and Phi Chi medical fraternity and fellowship in the American College of Surgeons. He was chairman of the Section on Urology of the Southwestern Medical Association.

Born in Breckenridge, Michigan on November 15, 1893, he was the son of Charles Van Duzen and Amy Taylor Van Duzen. He was graduated from Alma College in Michigan in 1913 and received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. In 1918, he served an internship at the New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and two years later he served his residency in the University of Michigan Hospital. He did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He moved to Dallas in 1920 and had been in active practice here since that time.

He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, belonged to the Dallas Country Club, and had served on the board of directors of the Dallas Athletic Club since 1949. During World War I, he served in the medical corps as a first lieutenant and was stationed in France.

Dr. Van Duzen was married to the former Miss Barbara Shaw of Galveston on March 15, 1922. She survives, as do three daughters; Mrs. Fred B. Freeman, Miss Yvonne Van Duzen and Miss Gail Van Duzen, all of Dallas; his mother Mrs. Amy Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, Michigan; two brothers, Dr. Verne L. Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, and Dr. Dale Van Duzen of Cleveland, Ohio.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the physician's career.

Thomas Owen Murray (1871-1953)

2012-01-23T17:59:00.002-06:00

Thomas Owen Murray, 82, of 1211 McIlvaine Street in San Antonio, died in his home Friday August 14th. A native Texan, he was born in Wilson County on July 10, 1871 to Robert Washington Murray and Margaret Frances James Murray. Thomas moved to San Antonio in 1903 and had lived in the city for more than 50 years at the time of his death. He was a carpenter and a member of the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church.

In 1909, Thomas married Miss Margaret Olivia Yeamans in San Antonio. Mrs. Murray survives, as do a son Thomas Owen Murray, Jr.; a daughter Mrs. Ray T. Dixon, both of San Antonio; three brothers, J.G. Murray, Obed R. Murray and I.C. Murray, all of San Antonio; and two sisters, Mrs. H.L. Miller of San Antonio and Mrs. G.M. Warren of Lavernia, Texas.

Services will be held at 10am Monday at the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church. Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park.

== Obituary based on a notice in the San Antonio Express, 16 August 1953. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

John Edward O'Neill (1886-1953)

2012-01-18T13:20:00.001-06:00

Funeral services will be held at 10am Monday at Porter Loring Chapel for John Edward O'Neill of 240 Bushnell Avenue. Mr. O'Neill died Tuesday, August 11, 1953 in Muskegon, Michigan. He was born on August 13, 1886 in Charlotte, Michigan. He was president and general manager of the Mission Provision Company in San Antonio. From 1906-1921, he had been a manager for the Swift Packing Company.

He was a former national officer and member of the board of directors of the National Independent Meat Packers, a member of the San Antonio Country Club, and the Rotary Club. Surviving is his wife Mrs. Lula Philipe O'Neill of San Antonio.

The Rev. Harold C. Gosnell will officiate at the rites and interment will be in Mission Burial Park. Pallbearers will be F.E. Gerth, Sr., W.W. Adams, Col. H.G. Fitzgerald, T.A. Lambert, George Parker and Bob Smith.

= = Obituary published in the San Antonio (TX) Express, 16 August 1953. Date of birth was obtained from WWI registration papers, online. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this individual or his family.

D. Alonzo York, M.D. (1867-1955)

2012-01-17T08:51:00.003-06:00

Dr. D. Alonzo York, city health officer of Del Rio, Texas, for 21 years, died at his home on April 29, 1955. He was born in February 1867 in Clayton, Georgia to Van Buren York and Sara Hopper York. He received his preliminary education at the Hiawasse Institute in Clayton and then graduated from Mercer College in Mason. He completed his medical education at Emory University in Atlanta, which was then known as Atlanta Medical College. He practiced briefly in Georgia before coming to Texas, where he lived first in Mineola and then moved to Del Rio in 1911.

A member almost continuously since 1904 of the Medina-Uvalde-Maverick-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-McKinney-Terrell-Zavala Counties Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association and was elected to honorary membership in 1949. Dr. York was a former member of the board of directors of the World Health Organization and served as city and county health officer.

During World War I, he organized the first Red Cross chapter in the county and became its first instructor in First Aid. He was a Mason and a former member of the board of trustees of the Del Rio Independent School District. He was a charter member of the Lions Club and a member of the Methodist church. He helped found the San Felipe Country Club, and for many years was a golf enthusiast.

Dr. York and Miss Helena Moore were married on June 9, 1893. Mrs. Moore died on April 4, 1948. Survivors include a son, Dr. D.A. York, medical director of the Universal Match Corporation in Karnack; two daughters, Mrs. Sam Harwood of Brackettville and Mrs. Horace Fawcett of Del Rio; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

== Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or the career of the deceased.

Samuel A. Scott, M.D. (1924-1955)

2012-01-11T08:45:00.000-06:00

Dr. Samuel A. Scott, neurosurgeon, died at a local hospital in Amarillo, Texas, on June 18, 1955 of acute myocarditis. He had been hospitalized for several days with a streptococcal infection and was discharged and dressed to leave the hospital when he was stricken.

He was born in Houston, Mississippi, on June 23, 1924, the son of Alonzo A. Scott and Mantee Scott. He attended Mississippi State College and the University of Mississippi. He received his medical education at Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1947. He served his residency at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and interned for two years at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans. He was associated with the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Memphis and the VA Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, for one year each.

Dr. Scott moved to Amarillo on February 1, 1955 and started his first private practice. During the few months he practiced there, he had built up an unusual practice in neurosurgery and was becoming highly regarded by his colleagues for his ability. He had applied for membership in the Potter County Medical Society but had not completed the necessary six months of practice required before he qualified for membership. He had previously qualified for the American Board of Neurological Surgery with the exception of the required two years of practice.

Dr. Scott was a member of the Baptist church. He served in the Army during World War II, and was recalled during the Korean conflict, spending two years in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Scott and Miss Virginia Keough were married on January 20, 1951 in Blackstone, Virginia. Mrs. Scott survives, as do their two small children, Sandra and Brister. Dr. Scott's father, Alonzo A. Scott of Eden, Mississippi, also survives.

== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Scott's career.

Edgar Harland Irvin, M.D. (1875-1955)

2012-01-04T08:01:00.000-06:00

Dr. Edgar Harland Irvin, a retired eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, died in El Paso on April 17, 1955. He was the son of Dr. Orlando Clark and Elizabeth MacMillan Irvin, and was born on January 26, 1875 in Bunker Hill, Indiana. He attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. In 1899, he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became a staff member of Hotel Dieu in El Paso and had practiced in that city for 53 years. He retired in 1952.

Dr. Irvin was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the El Paso County Medical Society almost continuously from 1904 until 1948. He was a past president of the El Paso County Medical Society, and a member of Phi Alpha Sigma medical fraternity. During World War I, he served as a captain in the medical corps.

Dr. Irvin and Miss Ida B. Crawford were married in Philadelphia on April 18, 1900. Survivors include Mrs. Irvin of El Paso, one daughter, Mrs. W.D. Woodul of El Paso; two sons, Harland M. Irvin of Los Angeles, California, and C.M. Irvin of El Paso; one sister, Miss Hallie P. Irvin of El Paso, eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Robert Wayne Bagwell, M.D. (1916-1955)

2012-01-03T13:05:00.000-06:00

Dr. Robert Wayne Bagwell of Borger, Texas died on May 23, 1955 of coronary thrombosis. He was born in Claude on June 10, 1916 to Robert L. Bagwell and Bertie Weeks Bagwell. He attended elementary and high schools in Claude, then graduated from the University of Texas in 1937. His medical education was obtained at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1941, and he served his internship at the Baltimore City Hospital. Dr. Bagwell practiced briefly at Kenvir, Kentucky and Amarillo, Texas; then became assistant resident in Brackenridge Hospital in Austin.

Immediately after his work there, he reported for duty with the medical corps of the United States Navy. In 1944, he served with the Eighth amphibious force in the European-African area. He later was assigned to naval hospitals in San Bernardino and Corona, California.

After the war, Dr. Bagwell joined the staff of the North Plains Hospital in Borger, where he remained until the time of his death. He was a member of the Top o' Texas Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and Phi Chi medical fraternity. He was also a member of the Borger Chamber of Commerce.

On August 1, 1943, Dr. Bagwell married Miss Josephine Kelln in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Bagwell and three children (Jan, Suzanne, and Robert Wayne) survive. His mother Mrs. Bertie Bagwell of Claude survives, as do two brothers, Don Bagwell of Claude and Bill Bagwell of Farmington, Arizona. Six sisters also survive: Miss Imogene Bagwell of El Paso, Mrs. Johnnie Doshier of Vega, Mrs. Janice Berg of Washington D.C., Mrs. Maurine Leach of Lubbock, Mrs. Edith Morris of Ralls, and Mrs. Estelle Melton of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Thomas Stafford Love, M.D. (1895-1955)

2011-12-26T12:03:00.001-06:00

Dr. Thomas Stafford Love, an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association, died at his home in Dallas on June 26, 1955 of a heart attack. He was born September 5, 1895 in Springfield, Missouri, to the late Thomas B. Love and Martha Goode Love. He attended public schools in Dallas and graduated from the old Bryan High School, now known as Crozier Technical High School. After attending the University of Texas and Washington and Lee University in St. Louis, he went to Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was president of his graduating class in 1920.

Dr. Love served his internship at the Biltmore General Hospital in Biltmore, North Carolina. He was a resident at the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in New Orleans in 1923. Later that year, he began his practice in Dallas, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society since 1923, and was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association this year. Dr. Love was also a member of the Southern Medical Association, the Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolarynogology, and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity.

He was a member of the Dallas Athletic Club, the Brook Hollow Golf Club, Beta Theta Pi social fraternity, and the Presbyterian church. He served in the Army Medical Corps during World War I, and was assigned to a hospital in Washington, D.C.

Miss Ethel Jeansonne and Dr. Love were married on June 25, 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mrs. Love survives, along with two children, Thomas Stafford Love, Jr. and Mrs. Bedford Wynn, both of Dallas.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

William Alexander Beaty (1855-1961)

2011-12-23T12:52:00.000-06:00

William Alexander Beaty, known to his many relatives and friends as "Uncle Bill", died at his home in Brownsville, Texas December 5, 1961, at the age of 106. He was born July 16, 1855 near Lincoln, Arkansas, the son of Alexander and Emily Holt Beaty, pioneers in this area. On his maternal side he was the grandson of Jack and Elizabeth Pogue Holt, who came here from Tennessee in 1829.

He grew up on a farm on what was to become Beaty Mountain, north of Lincoln. As a boy of seven, he heard the gunfire in the battle of Prairie Grove. Later, he watched Confederate troops march by his parents' farm and stop to water their mounts.

In the course of his long life, Mr. Beaty saw and participated in the making of quite a bit of history. As a young man he went to the Indian Territory and also spent some years in Texas. He was a cowpuncher, a ranch foreman, and at one time kept a store in Red Rock, Oklahoma. He was in Oklahoma for the opening of the Cherokee Strip where he rode a horse named 'Frank' and won his share of land. He was so grateful to 'Frank', and thought so much of him, he brought the horse to Arkansas with him when he came several years later.

He married Mondella Stoner in Oklahoma and to this union four children were born: Travis of Lincoln, Frank of Mt. Comfort, Mildred (who died at an early age), and Mrs. Merle Whitlow of Brownsville, Texas, with whom he had made his home for several years before his death. Other survivors are ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His wife died in 1918.

He was accustomed to spending his summers in Lincoln, Arkansas at the home of his son Travis, before he became unable to travel. He was here for his 100th, 102nd, and 103rd birthdays, celebrated in conjunction with the Holt reunion, where he was the oldest member and the guest of honor. On his 100th birthday he was made an honorary member of the Washington County Historical Society and on his 101st birthday was presented with the "Washington County Pioneer" certificate.

Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church, with Rev. Joe Dickens and Rev. Walter Pennell officiating. Interment was in Lincoln cemetery next to his wife.

= = = obituary written by Ruth Holt Payne of Route 2, Lincoln, Arkansas, in 1962 and published in the Arkansas Family Historian. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Robert Earl Cone, M.D. (1894-1955)

2011-12-22T08:36:00.001-06:00

Dr. Robert Earl Cone, head of the University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Urology, died at his home in Galveston, Texas, on May 24, 1955, of adenocarcinoma of the stomach. He was born in Galveston on February 27, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Cone, Sr. He was graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1915, and returned to Galveston to complete his medical education at the University's Medical Branch, receiving his degree in 1919.

After an internship at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Dr. Cone served his residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Cleveland. In 1920, he began his teaching career in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and was made an adjunct professor of urology in 1942. He became a consultant to the board of urology at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston in 1954, and held that position until the time of his death.

Dr. Cone held membership in many professional organizations. He was a member and past president of both the Texas Urological Society and the South Central Section of the American Urological Association. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Urology, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Galveston County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the Texas Surgical Society. His medical fraternity was Phi Rho Sigma.

Dr. Cone was a member of the Galveston Artillery Club, the Galveston Country Club and the Episcopal Church. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity, and director of the Woodley Petroleum Company in Houston. He is remembered as an outstanding athlete in his college days and played one year with the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. More recently he won a number of trophies as an amateur golfer.

Miss Malcolm Parten and Dr. Cone were married on October 4, 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mrs. Cone and two children, Mrs. Mary Chadwick Philley of Houston and Dr. Robert Earl Cone, Jr. of Galveston, survive. Other survivors include his mother Mrs. E.O. Cone, Sr. of Galveston, a brother E.O. Cone, Jr., and a sister Mrs. Dorothy Vaughan, both of El Paso.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Robert Wilkins Holton, M.D. (1878-1961)

2011-12-21T13:09:00.000-06:00

Dr. Robert Wilkins Holton of Terrell, Texas, passed away October 22, 1961. He was born on April 4, 1878 at Headsville Village (Robertson County). He was the son of John D. Holton and Eliza Ann Breed Holton. He was the 10th in a family of 11 children. Both his parents were schoolteachers, and his father was a Civil War veteran as well as a Baptist minister.

He received his early education in public and private schools, and taught school for one year before entering the University of Louisville. He was graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky in 1906. He practiced medicine between school terms, and practiced in Kaufman County for more than fifty years, losing less than 30 days from his practice as a result of personal illness throughout his career.

Dr. Holton was a pioneer in the construction and administration of hospitals in the county. He served as a flight surgeon with the Royal Air Force training unit located at Terrell during World War II, as medical administrator of the local Selective Service System, and on the Advisory Committee to Selective Service.

Dr. Holton once estimated that he delivered more than 6,000 babies, mostly in Kaufman County. He was active in civic affairs, having been a member of the Lions Club, active master Mason, member of the Shrine, member of the school board and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He was named General Practitioner of the Year in 1955.

Survivors include his sons Charley Holton and Robert W. Holton, Jr., both of Terrell, and a daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Johnston also of Terrell. Four grandchildren also survive.

= = = Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Carie D. Gipson, M.D. (1897-1955)

2011-12-20T12:40:00.001-06:00

Dr. Carie D. Gipson of Three Rivers, Texas, died in a local hospital on July 27, 1955, of coronary thrombosis and diabetes. He was born November 22, 1897 in Braxton, Mississippi to Dr. and Mrs. W.M. Gipson. He attended Southwest Texas Normal College at San Marcos and the University of Texas, and received his medical education at Baylor University College of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1927. He served his internship in St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas. He practiced for eleven years in Pecos before moving to Three Rivers in 1938.

Dr. Gipson was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bee-Live Oak-McMullen Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1947. He was also a member of Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity, the Lions Club, the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic Lodge and Shrine, and the Baptist church. He was a first lieutenant in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army.

Dr. Gipson and Miss Clara Norvell were married on June 15, 1929 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Survivors include Mrs. Gipson, a son C.D. Gipson Jr. of San Diego, California; a daughter Mrs. Harrell Banks of San Antonio; his mother Mrs. John Edmondson of Edwards, Mississippi; one brother, Dr. J.F. Gipson of Port Isabel; two sisters, Mrs. Bryan Boyd of Three Rivers and Mrs. J. Beasley of Crystal City. He also leaves one grandson.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

French Nestor Smith, M.D. (1891-1955)

2011-12-19T13:21:00.000-06:00

Dr. French Nestor Smith died at his home in Harlingen, Texas on July 10, 1955, of cancer. He was born April 15, 1891 in Red Creek, West Virginia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Smith. He attended the University of West Virginia and the West Virginia Wesleyan College before beginning his medical education at the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1921.

Dr. Smith practiced briefly in Dalton, Ohio before going to Canton, where he practiced for nine years. He then moved to Harlingen, where he had practiced for 25 years. He was a member of the Texas Medical Association, and the Cameron-Willacy Counties Medical Society. He was a member of the Methodist church, was a past master of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Knights Templar.

While still a medical student, Dr. Smith joined the Army and served from 1917 until 1919. On January 1, 1917 he married Miss Martha Matheney in Oakland, Maryland. He is survived by his wife, two sons; Robert Fenton Smith, D.D.S. of Corpus Christi and French N. Smith, Jr. of Harlingen; one daughter, Mrs. K.B. Slavin of Hillsboro; three sisters, Mrs. R.C. Teter, Mrs. Margaret Judy and Mrs. Jennie Johnson, all of Parsons, West Virginia; and two brothers, Daniel Smith of Parsons and P.C. Smith of Canton, Ohio.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Nowlin Watson, M.D. (1878-1955)

2011-12-15T10:10:00.000-06:00

Dr. Nowlin Watson of Clarksville, Texas, physician for 54 years, died in a local hospital on June 8, 1955, of hypertensive heart disease. He was born in Clarksville January 24, 1878, the son of John Watson and Myra Nowlin Watson. After attending public schools in Clarksville, he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville. When the Spanish-American War broke out, he left his class to join the Army and was assigned to a hospital unit in Jacksonville, Florida. He was later ordered to Savannah, Georgia and received his discharge there. He returned to his medical studies and was graduated in 1901.

Dr. Watson practiced in Clarksville from the time of his graduation until the time of his death. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Red River County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1947 and 1948. He was also the city health officer of Clarksville for 41 years. In this capacity, he pioneered in combating malaria, and through his efforts, Clarksville became known as the "mosquito-free city". In recognition of his work, the citizens of his town honored him with a banquet, and the Texas Public Health Association presented him a Certificate of Merit and an honorary membership in the organization.

He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Shrine, having been in the Masonic Order for 53 years. He was a past president and charter member of the Clarksville chapter of Rotary International, and had a 30 year record of perfect attendance. He served on the Exemption Board during World War I, and received the Selective Service System Medal for his service during World War II.

In 1914, Dr. Watson married Mrs. Emma Kneisley Hocker, who died in 1945. An adopted son, Sam K. Hocker, survives, as does a sister, Mrs. F.B. Mason, both of Clarksville.

--- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

George Thomas Blackwell, M.D. (1882-1955)

2011-12-14T08:49:00.000-06:00

Dr. George Thomas Blackwell of Gorman, Texas died at his home on June 13, 1955, of coronary thrombosis. He was born in Eastland County on January 19, 1882 and received his medical education at the College of Medicine and Surgery in Chicago. After practicing four years in Romney, he moved in 1919 to Gorman where he practiced until the time of his death.

With his brother, Dr. Blackwell founded the Blackwell Hospital in Gorman. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Eastland-Callahan-Stephens-Shackelford-Throckmorton Counties Medical Society.

He was a member of the Baptist faith, served as mayor of Gorman for 18 years, and was for many years a member of the school board. He was also a member of the Domino Club.

Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Frankie Brogdon of Ramney; a daughter Mrs. D.V. Rodgers of Gorman; two brothers, Almus Blackwell D.D.S. of Stamford and Albert Blackwell of Lubbock; and four grandchildren.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

David Houston Hudgins, M.D. (1868-1955)

2011-12-12T15:37:00.002-06:00

Dr. David Houston Hudgins of Forney, Texas, physician for 54 years, died at his home on June 25, 1955 of a cerebral vascular accident. He was born to Anderson Pierce Hudgins and Eliza Skelton Hudgins in Scottsboro, Alabama, on March 2, 1868. He came to Texas with his parents in 1880 to settle in Grapevine. He finished his preliminary education there, and graduated from the old Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College in 1894. He interned at a state hospital in Little Rock Arkansas. Following his internship, Dr. Hudgins practiced six years in Crandall, Texas and moved in 1901 to Forney, where he practiced until his retirement in 1949.

Having been a member of the Texas Medical Association since 1904 through the Kaufman County Medical Society, he was elected to honorary membership in 1951. He had served for 17 years as secretary of his county society, was its delegate for 20 years, and was president three times. He was vice-president of the Texas Medical Association in 1928, a past president of the North Texas Medical Society, a member of the American Medical Association, and a charter member of the Fifty Year Club. He kept up with advances in medicine by taking postgraduate courses every five years until he was 60 years old, and had studied in New Orleans, Philadelphia and New York City.

Dr. Hudgins was a member of the Christian Church, the Lions Club and was for many years a member of the Forney Independent School's board of directors. He was a member of the medical advisory board in the selective service system during World War II, and received a medal for his services.

On November 15, 1896, Dr. Hudgins married Miss Nannie Elizabeth Anthony in Crandall. They had two children, and Mrs. Hudgins died in 1909. Miss Mary Alice Pinson became Dr. Hudgins' second wife on April 2, 1913, in Forney. She survives, as do a daughter Miss Inez A. Hudgins of Ridgewood, New Jersey, a son Jack W. Hudgins of Dallas; one brother Dr. Benjamin E. Hudgins of Dallas, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Peyton Roland Denman, M.D. (1879-1955)

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Dr. Peyton Roland Denman of Houston, Texas, died in a local hospital on August 16, 1955. He was born near Lufkin on October 10, 1879 to Dr. Alex M. and Mary Caroline Walker Denman. After attending Lufkin public schools and East Texas State College at Commerce, he entered Tulane University College of Medicine in New Orleans, from which he graduated in 1903.

He began his practice in Angelina County soon after his graduation, continuing there until 1911 when he moved to Houston. He remained in Houston until he retired in 1952. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Harris County Medical Society, and was elected in 1952 to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association, after having been a member almost continuously since 1904. He was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a past president of the Texas Railway and Traumatic Surgical Association.

He was a past president of the staff at Memorial Hospital, a staff member and former executive board member of Jefferson Davis Hospital, and was on the staff of Hermann Hospital. He was appointed to the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in 1944 as Associate Professor of Gynecology (Honorary) and resigned some years later.

Dr. Denman was also a member of the Baptist Church, the Houston Chamber of Commerce, the Community Chest, the Houston Club and the Houston Doctor's Club. During World War I, he was a major in the 137th Field Artillery Medical Corps, serving as a regimental surgeon in France.

He was one of twelve out of his graduating class to be honored in 1953 by a special graduation ceremony during which he was awarded a diploma for having served in the field of medicine for 50 years. After his death, the Houston Chronicle paid tribute to him in an editorial, which called attention to his pioneering in the field of spinal anesthesia and invention of the Denman needle to inject the splanchnic nerves of the spine. The article pointed out "the son of a physician and the father of a physician, Dr. Denman was also the brother of two other physicians. Medicine is a tradition in his family".

Dr. Denman married Miss Frances Wootters of Crockett on December 5, 1905. Mrs. Denman survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton and Mrs. Frances Denman Prince; and one son, Dr. Frank R. Denman, all of Houston. Three brothers survive, Dr. Linwood H. Denman, Dr. Byford H. Denman and K.W. Denman, all of Lufkin. His surviving sisters are Mrs. Archie Hucherson and Mrs. Lillian Shands of Lufkin and Mrs. Nell H. Abram of Houston.

+ + + published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Neil Erastus Greer, M.D. (1882-1955)

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Dr. Neil E. Greer of Lockney, Texas, died in a Lubbock hospital on June 26, 1955, following a cerebral thrombosis and eight years of illness. He was born in Prescott, Arkansas on October 10, 1882 to Will and Cindy Greer. He received his preliminary education in De Leon, Texas and graduated from the Medical Department of the Texas Christian University in 1914. He practiced for a short time in De Leon, Fort Worth, and Petersburg, before moving to Lockney in 1916.

Dr. Greer was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1950, after having been a member throughout his professional career, most recently through the Hale-Floyd-Briscoe Counties Medical Society. He was a past president of that body, and was a member of the American Medical Association. He was a Methodist, a Mason, and a member of Rotary International. During World War I, he served on the local committee on procurement and assignment of physicians.

On September 6, 1906, Miss Oma Patterson and Dr. Greer were married in De Leon. Mrs. Greer survives, as do two sons, Dr. Wayne Greer of Lockney and Mr. Doyle Greer of Lubbock. Four grandchildren also survive.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Gideon Graham, M.D. (1884-1955)

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Dr. Gideon Graham, physician of Newton, Texas, for 28 years, died in a Jasper hospital on June 23, 1955, of cancer. He was born April 5, 1884 in Osage. He was the son of Jessie Abner Graham and Melvina Allen Graham. After attending Tyler Commercial College in Tyler, Texas, he entered Memphis Hospital Medical College, from which he graduated in 1906.

He practiced briefly at Gonzales, Osage, Doucette and Trent, part of the time as a lumber company doctor, before beginning his practice in Newton. He was a past president of the Jasper-Newton Counties Medical Society, having served in 1943, 1944 and 1945. He was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1955, after having been a member throughout his career. He was also a member of the American Medical Association. During World War I he was a captain in the Army Medical Corps and served in Louisville, Kentucky and in Del Rio.

Dr. Graham was a member of the Baptist faith, the Lions Club, and the Masonic Order. On March 30, 1926, he married Miss Eunice Woods. Mrs. Graham survives, as do two sons, Cyril J. Graham of Beaumont and Willie Mack Graham of Hillsboro. Four daughters also survive; Mrs. Robert Johnson of Beaumont, Mrs. Obie Straughn of Corpus Christi, Mrs. E.P. Hughes of Jasper, and Mrs. Guy E. Dority, Jr. of El Paso. Dr. Graham also leaves 16 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, a brother W.A. Graham of Gatesville, and a sister, Mrs. R.F. Brown, of Osage.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Felix Grundy McConnell (1809-1846)

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Washington D.C. September 9, 1846. -- The telegraph will have apprised you of the melancholy suicide of the Hon. Felix McConnell. The news sent a thrill of horror through the community, and crowds eagerly hurried to the body which but a short time ago was bounding with the pulses of life. Oh! Intemperance! how numerous are thy victims.

It appears that the deceased terminated his existence by deliberately cutting the jugular veins on each side of his throat, and by inflicting deep wounds in his sides, with a knife. Two of the stabs were nearly perpendicular. The others were glanced off from his bones and made frightful gashes. His friends say that for about a week past he had relinquished drinking, owing to indisposition, and that the absence of his usual stimulus caused great despondency. He was in fact suffering the horrors of delirium tremens.

He could not, as has been stated, been in great want of money, for I am told he had not drawn his mileage. In addition to this, he had his watch and valuable jewelry on his person, besides a sum of money. A short time before he committed the deed, he called for a pen and ink, for the purpose, it is supposed, of writing to his wife. A coroner's inquest was held on the body, at his room in the St. Charles Hotel, and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the fact.

Mr. McConnell was born in Nashville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, on April 1st, 1809. In 1824, he removed to Talladega County Alabama, where his family, consisting of a wife and four children, now reside. His funeral took place on the 10th, under the direction of the House of Representatives. = = = published in the Baltimore Sun, 11 September 1846.

Transcriber's Note: Mrs. McConnell was Miss Elizabeth Hogan, who married Felix in Alabama in 1835. According to A Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Mr. McConnell worked as a saddler before being admitted to the bar in 1836. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the Alabama State Senate before being elected to the U.S. Congress.

Margaret Minerva Kirlicks (1859-1890)

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This morning at 1:15 o'clock Mrs. Margaret M., wife of William Kirlicks of this city, died at her late home in the third ward after a protracted and severe illness. She was born on October 11, 1859 and died on April 14, 1890.

All that a loving husband and affectionate relatives could do to prolong the light of life was done, but the remorseless destroyer could not be turned away. She was only 30 years of age and was one of the lovable characters among the ladies of this city. Harris County was her birthplace and nearly all her life had been spent in Houston.

A devoted husband and three loving children bear the brunt of sorrow. Mr. James Pickens, well known here, was a brother who mourns alongside a sorrowing mother and sister. The funeral took place this afternoon from the First Baptist Church, and the dear lady was buried at Washington Cemetery.

= = published in the Houston News section of the Galveston Daily News, 14 April 1890. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Ella Petty McDonald (1849-1890)

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BASTROP, TEX. April 4th 1890. A sad, sad death occurred a few miles below Bastrop, near Upton Station, last week. Mrs. Ella Petty McDonald, wife of Mr. Tom McDonald, formerly of Hill's Prairie, after several days of severe suffering, passed away, leaving a devoted husband and loving children to try to live without her.

= = published in the Galveston Daily News 5 April 1890. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Preston Hunt, M.D. (1866-1955)

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Dr. Preston Hunt, president of the Texas Medical Association in 1940, died in a hospital in Pampa, Texas, on July 10, 1955. He was formerly a resident of Texarkana, but had been living with his brother since 1951.

The son of Jesse Ivy Hunt and Sarah J. Hunt, he was born on February 5, 1866, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He received his early education in the county schools there, and when he was 21, left home to become a railroad laborer, thus financing his higher education. In 1890, he moved to Texarkana, where he worked several years in the railway news business. He completed his first two years of medical school at the Hospital College of Physicians and Surgeons in Louisville, Kentucky and the Medical Department of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Atlanta, Georgia in 1901.

Returning to Texarkana to begin his medical practice, Dr. Hunt became associated with the Texarkana Hospital, in which he bought a major interest and was a director and treasurer throughout most of his years in active practice. Upon his retirement, he gave his stock in the hospital to the public, specifying that the institution should be administered in trust by a board of physicians.

He was president and secretary of both the Bowie (Texas) and Miller (Arkansas) County Medical Societies at the time when dual membership in adjoining states was permissible, and was a past president of the Fifteenth District Medical Society and Councilor of that district. He served six years as a delegate from his county society to the State Association. Dr. Hunt was a member of the American Medical Association, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. During World War I, he was a medical examiner and a member of the Medical Section of the Council on National Defense.

Dr. Hunt was a Knight Templar and a 32nd degree Mason. He was a member and past president of the Texarkana Lions Club and a member of the Baptist church, in which he was a deacon for more than forty years. He was a member of the executive board of the Tex-Ark Boy Scout Council for ten years, chairman of the Scout health and safety committee for five years, chairman of the annual council meeting in 1936, a member of the Texarkana District Scout Committee, and a member of the district board of directors for the Texarkana Boy Scout organization. In 1936, he donated 200 acres of land for the establishment of Camp Preston Hunt and made numerous improvements on the campsite.

Dr. Hunt married Miss Hattie Hutton on January 1, 1914 in Ballinger. They had no children, and Mrs. Hunt died in 1935 while serving as president of the Women's Auxiliary to the Texas Medical Association. Survivors of Dr. Hunt include two brothers, the Rev. Claude E. Hunt of McLean and Grover Hunt of Wellington. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sally Filgo of Verona, Mississippi.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Kathleen Finnegan Fox (1899-1991)

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Kathleen Finnegan Fox, born August 8, 1899 in Houston, Texas, died January 25, 1991 in Wimberley, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents William Nicholas Finnegan and Kathryn Sheridan Finnegan, her husband Reuben Lightfoot Fox, four brothers William Jr., John Thomas, Frank S. and Emmett, and two sisters.

Kathleen grew up on Providence Street in Houston's Fifth Ward. Her father was chief clerk for the City of Houston tax collector. Her husband also worked for the city as a civil engineer. She is survived by a sister, Eileen Finnegan of Houston; daughters, Betty Jean Fox Kolenda of Wimberley, Texas and Kathleen Virginia Fox Greaney of Las Vegas Nevada. She also leaves 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. A rosary will be recited at the Forest Park Lawndale Chapel on January 28th at 7:30pm. The funeral will be held there at noon on January 29th. Interment will be at Forest Park immediately following the service.

In lieu of flowers, friends and family may wish to send donations to the William Gillespie Memorial Scholarship Fund at St. Thomas High School, to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wimberley, TX, or to the Masonic Lodge #1445 in Wimberley.

= = published in the Houston Chronicle 27 January 1991. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Corinne Raiford Brazelton (1897-1991)

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Corinne Brazelton, age 93, died Saturday, January 26, 1991 in St. Luke's Hospital in Houston. She was born July 30, 1897 in Houston, Texas, to Augustus N. Raiford and Maggie Frensz Raiford. She grew up in the Old Fifth Ward near Lyons Avenue and Semmes. Her father was a sign painter for a local shop. Corinne married William Brazelton, an auto mechanic, and lived on Driscoll Street.

She is survived by her brother Arthur Raiford and wife Margaret; nephews Earl Raiford, Russell Raiford and R.L. Brazelton. Also survived by nieces Adele Rankin and Edna Earle Taylor. She was predeceased by her husband William.

Mrs. Brazelton was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, with Heights Funeral Home handling the arrangements. = = obituary published in the Houston Chronicle 28 January 1991. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Davis Lee Sprinkle, M.D. (1890-1955)

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Dr. Davis Lee Sprinkle of Dallas died in a local hospital on August 27, 1955, of a heart ailment. He was born on August 18, 1890, near Temple, Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Sprinkle. After attending public schools in Lone Star and Kaufman, he entered North Texas State Normal College, where he attended two years before enrolling in the Baylor College of Pharmacology in Dallas. He graduated in 1918. Seven years later, he returned to school for a year of pre-medical studies at Baylor University in Waco, then received his doctor of medicine degree in 1930 from Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas.

Dr. Sprinkle served his internship at Morningside Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tampa Municipal Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Beginning his medical career as a general practitioner in Mabank, Texas, Dr. Sprinkle remained there for five years. He then served his residency in radiology at University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1937-1938. Later he became a radiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fort Howard. In 1938, he went to Tampa as superintendent and radiologist of the Tampa Memorial Hospital. He then practiced briefly in Pineville, Louisiana and in 1942 moved to McAlester, Oklahoma. There he served as radiologist for the Albert Pike and St. Mary's Hospitals and carried on a private practice in his specialty.

Dr. Sprinkle returned to Texas in 1944 and opened a private office in Harlingen, where he specialized in radiology. He remained there for seven years before moving again to Dallas, in 1952, where he was in active practice at the time of his death. He had been a member of the Texas Medical Association consecutively through the Kaufman, Cameron-Willacy, Erath-Hood-Somervell, and Dallas Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the Kaufman County society in 1933. His membership in other medical organizations included the American Medical Association, the Radiological Society of North America and the Texas Radiological Society. During World War I, he served in the naval medical corps and was in the medical reserve for ten years.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine, the Lions Club and the Kiwanis Club. He married Miss Elsie Pearl Caldwell on April 12, 1914. He is survived by Mrs. Sprinkle and two brothers, Joe and Henry Sprinkle, both of Kaufman, Texas.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

William Augustus Bronson, M.D. (1817-1890)

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The many friends and admirers of Dr. Bronson will be pained to learn of his demise. He passed away on August 20, 1890, of uremia in New York. He was one of the few men who represent the embodiment of the professional ideal. In his attainments, skill and life conduct, he was a type of that standard which we are endeavoring to impress upon our younger men.

Dr. Bronson was born in Connecticut on June 4th, 1817. In 1840 he took his degree of M.A. at Yale, and in 1843 the degree of M.D. at the same University. The following year he moved to Newburgh, where he studied dentistry with Dr. Grant. In 1844 he married Miss S.D. Raymond of New Haven, Connecticut, who died 18 years ago. He also had two children, both of whom are dead.

It is sad when a man outlives his family, and is forced to pass down to the grave in comparative domestic loneliness, but it is sadder still when a man outlives his usefulness. This latter cannot be said of Dr. Bronson. To the profession of dentistry he gave his whole life's energy, and much of the good which he did lives after him to do him honor.

With a university and medical education he entered active practice fully equipped, yet his ambition was such that he never relinquished his studies, but so labored that he kept abreast of the rapid progress which when on around him. He acquainted himself with new theories, and adopted new methods as soon as they were proved to be of advantage. He was an earnest society worker, being one of the charter members of the Odontological Society of New York, and a life member of the New England Society. He contributed many valuable suggestions and new instruments to dental practice.

In his office, his mild manners and modest demeanor, coupled with exceptional operative skill and a gently and sympathetic touch, attracted to him a large and lucrative practice among the leading people of this section. He was a true Christian gentleman and professional brother.

= = = published in the Dental Mirror, September 1890. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information about the doctor or his family.

William Daugherty Petit, M.D. (1883-1955)

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Dr. William Daugherty Petit of Presidio, Texas died in an El Paso hospital on July 17, 1955 of pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary venous thrombosis. He was born October 9, 1883 in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Dr. Julius C. Petit and Esther Ann Archer Petit. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1908 and entered Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his doctor of medicine degree with high honors in 1911 and served his internship at St. Louis City Hospital.

He was appointed house surgeon at the Missouri Pacific Hospital in St. Louis and held this position for two years. In 1915, he joined the Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant and served overseas during World War I. He had attained the rank of major when he was honorable discharged in 1922. He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel in the medical reserve corps.

In 1924, Dr. Petit entered private practice in Thorndale, and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934 as a medical officer. He moved to Presidio in 1942 and had a private practice there until the time of his death. In addition, he was an officer with the United States Public Health Service in Presidio. He took time out during his medical career to do postgraduate work in Vienna and at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans.

Dr. Petit was an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association through the Pecos-Jeff Davis-Presidio-Brewster Counties Medical Society, and was a member of the American Medical Association. He was also a member of Phi Beat Pi, the Masonic Lodge and the Episcopal church.

He married Miss Inez Hysaw on March 13, 1916 in Marfa, Texas. Survivors are Mrs. Petit, a daughter Mrs. Jack Hunter of Alexandria, Egypt and one granddaughter.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Alexander Mileau, Jr., M.D. (1890-1955)

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Dr. Alexander Mileau, Jr., retired Army surgeon, died on July 4, 1955 in Brookside General Hospital in San Antonio, of a heart disease. He was a native of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, born February 1, 1890 to Alexandre Mileau and Marie Louise Dupuis Mileau. He attended school in Lewiston, Maine, and received his medical education at the Tufts Medical College in Boston in 1916. After serving an internship at the Children's Hospital in New York City, Dr. Mileau was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps and served overseas during World War I with the First Division.

After the war, he attended several service schools including Flight Surgeon's School and Army Medical School, for two years, and in 1922 was appointed post surgeon of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Four years later, he was transferred to Brooks Field in San Antonio, where he was a post surgeon. In 1930 he received an appointment as senior flight surgeon, Philippine Department, Philippine Islands. He was also a rated pilot.

In 1933, Dr. Mileau returned to Texas as post surgeon for Fort Crockett in Galveston, and was later stationed briefly with the obstetrical and orthopedic service in Fort Sam Houston. He retired with the rank of major in September, 1934. He became superintendent of the Robert B. Green Hospital in San Antonio in 1938, a position which he held until 1944, when he began his private practice.

He was a member of the Bexar County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association and Phi Chi medical fraternity. He was also a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

On October 8, 1917, Dr. Mileau married Miss Louise M. Reynolds of Mount Savage, Maryland, in New York City. Mrs. Mileau survives, along with three daughters; Mrs. Marie Louise Seeburger of Mexico City, Miss Janet E. Mileau, and Mrs. Joan D. Jacobs, both of San Antonio.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Ace Hill Alsup, M.D. (1875-1955)

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Dr. Ace Hill Alsup of Temple, Texas, died in his office on August 16, 1955 of a heart attack. He was the son of Joseph F. Alsup and Martha Jane Baskin Alsup, born on April 18, 1875 in Wilson County, Tennessee. He moved to Texas with his parents when he was a small child. He attended the Wedemeyer Academy in Belton, the entered the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his medical education at the Memphis Hospital Medical College, where he was valedictorian of his class in 1908.

After practicing briefly in Franklin, Dr. Alsup moved in 1910 to Little River where he practiced until 1928. He then located in Temple and became a staff member of the King's Daughters Hospital. He had been a member of the Texas Medical Association through the Bell County Medical Society continuously since 1910. He was also a member of the Texas Railway and Traumatic Surgical Association, and was the local physician for the MKT Railroad. He served as examining physician for Selective Service from 1940-1946 and again in 1954-1955. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Baptist Church.

Dr. Alsup married Miss Norma Blaylock on November 12, 1911 in Heidenheimer. Survivors include Mrs. Alsup; a son Ace Hill Alsup Jr. of Temple, a daughter Mrs. Jasper H. Arnold of Houston; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Taylor and Mrs. Slade Yarrell of Temple and Mrs. Susan Furnace of Manville; and five grandchildren.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Robert Irving McNeil, M.D. (1877-1955)

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Dr. Robert Irving McNeil, who had practiced medicine in El Paso, Texas for 42 years, died at his home on August 10, 1955, of carcinoma of the lung. He was born at Elm Hall Plantation in Napoleonville, Louisiana on January 24, 1877. His parents were Edward Benton and Amanda Kittredge McNeil.

He attended Union University in Jackson, Tennessee and received his medical degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C. in 1903. He did his postgraduate work at the New York Postgraduate School of Medicine in 1911. He served an internship at Garfield Hospital in Washington. Dr. McNeil was a physician at the Mescalero Indian Reservation until 1907, when he moved to El Paso to begin his private practice.

In 1919, he entered the United States Public Health Service and became chief of an El Paso quarantine station in 1930. He was given recognition for his part in bringing under control a smallpox epidemic which threatened the city in 1933, and he helped arrange temporary admission to this country for Mexican citizens who required medical attention in the El Paso hospitals. He retired in 1949 and devoted his time to his home, travels and writing, and had articles published in medical and historical journals.

Dr. McNeil was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the El Paso County Medical Society, of which he had been a member continuously since 1908. He had been an honorary member of the state organization since 1947. He served as county health officer and school physician. He was also president of the El Paso Archaeological Society, a life member of the Masonic Lodge, and deacon emeritus in the Baptist Church.

During the Spanish-American War, Dr. McNeil served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in Washington, D.C. He married Miss Elizabeth Keeling on June 10, 1908 in Washington. Mrs. McNeil survives, as do three children; Irving McNeil, Jr. of El Morro, New Mexico, Mrs. John A. Ferguson of El Paso, and Mrs. Robert E. Garren of Auburn, Alabama.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Arthur Ernest Moon, M.D. (1890-1955)

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Dr. Arthur Ernest Moon, who spent his entire professional life in Temple, Texas, died at his home on July 27, 1955 of a heart attack. He was born March 5, 1890 in Lineville, Alabama to Jacob Washington Moon and Mary Jane Strickland Moon. He attended Howard College in Birmingham and then graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1915. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1920 and became an intern at the Scott and White Memorial Hospitals, where he later became a resident doctor, then a permanent member of the hospital staff, specializing in internal medicine. He had retired last April 1st.

Dr. Moon was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bell County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1942. He was also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Texas Club of Internists, the Southern Medical Association and Alpha Omega Alpha. He was a senior consultant at the University of Texas Postgraduate School of Medicine in Temple, and was an instructor in the Scott and White School of Nursing from 1925-1935. He was also a member of the Baptist Church.

Dr. Moon married Miss Flora Wells on June 15, 1920. Their son, Dr. Arthur E. Moon, Jr., died in an automobile accident in January 1952. Survivors include Mrs. Moon, two brothers, Dr. A.J. Moon of Liberty, Missouri and David Moon of Fort Worth; four sisters, Mrs. Nora Phillips of Coronado, California, Mrs. P.E. Reeves of Iago, Mrs. J.A. McIver of Fort Worth, and Mrs. James Pritchett of Beaumont; and three grandchildren.

+++ +++ +++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Leo Arthur Nelson, M.D. (1889-1955)

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Dr. Leo Arthur Nelson of Dallas died in a local hospital on August 18, 1955 after a long illness. He retired from active practice in 1952. He was born February 27, 1889 in Chariton, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. Will Nelson. He received his preliminary education in the public schools and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, which he attended for three years. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1916. Dr. Nelson served his internship and residency at the University Hospital in Iowa City.

In 1918, he served with the Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant at the base hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana. In 1919, he moved to Texas and began his practice in Sherman. He moved to Dallas in 1924, where he helped to found the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic. He specialized in diseases of the ear, nose and throat.

Dr. Nelson was a member of the American Medical Association, and in 1953 was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association through the Dallas County Medical Society, of which two groups he had been a member since shortly after coming to Texas. He was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.

Dr. Nelson was a Knight Templar and a member of the Shrine and the Baptist Church. He married Miss Cora Kathryn Beeler in Denison, Iowa on August 29, 1917. Survivors include Mrs. Nelson, one daughter, Mrs. Robert Karper of Dallas, one brother, H.R. Nelson of Corvallis, Oregon, and two grandchildren.

++ ++ ++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Loyal Hamilton Moore, M.D. (1883-1955)

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Dr. Loyal Hamilton Moore died in a local hospital in McAllen, Texas on July 8, 1955, of coronary thrombosis. He was the son of James G. and Samantha Moore, born on October 25, 1883 in Venice, Pennsylvania. He attended Jefferson Academy in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and Westminster College in New Wilmington. Then he entered the University of Pittsburgh and completed his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1910. He practiced for 25 years in Canonsburg and Houston, Pennsylvania before coming to Texas and beginning his practice in McAllen. He specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association and the Hidalgo-Starr Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1943. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine and the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Moore married Miss Blanche Peacock on October 26, 1911 in Houston, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moore, two children and five grandchildren survive. His sons are R. Glen Moore of Elsa and William Loyal Moore of McAllen.

++ ++ ++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Phillip Lee Vardy, M.D. (1871-1955)

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Dr. Phillip Lee Vardy of Estelline, Texas died on August 30, 1955 in a Childress hospital of a coronary thrombosis. He was the son of H.C. and Mary Brain Vardy, born on January 8, 1871 near Weatherford, Texas. He attended public schools in Chico, then worked for several years on a ranch in Hall County. He entered Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, and graduated from there in 1897, after which he began his practice in Estelline. He was in active practice there for 58 years, taking time out in 1903 and 1910 to do postgraduate work in St. Louis, Missouri.

Elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1947, Dr. Vardy had been a member of the Armstrong-Donley-Childress-Collingsworth-Hall Counties Medical Society since 1908, and was president of the society in 1942. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and was the physician for the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad for many years.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star in Estelline, and of the Memphis Chapter and Council and Commandery. He was also a member of the Lions Club and the Estelline Methodist Church, for which he was secretary and treasurer for more than 40 years.

Dr. Vardy married Miss Mary Eddins of Chico on October 11, 1899. Mrs. Vardy survives, as do four children: Phillip L. Vardy, Jr. of Slaton, James DeWitt Vardy of Turkey, Mrs. W.C. Gilmore of Slaton, and Mrs. Morris Currin of Fort Worth. He also leaves four grandchildren. A third son, Robert Winston Vardy, preceded his father in death.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Marvin Cartmell Overton, M.D. (1878-1955)

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Dr. Marvin Cartmell Overton, active practitioner in Lubbock for 54 years and father of Dr. M.C. Overton Jr., Pampa surgeon, and Philip R. Overton, Austin attorney and general counsel for the Texas Medical Association, died at his home on September 1, 1955 of panmyelosis with fibrosis.

The son of the Rev. George Buck Overton and Susan Louisa Lawson Overton, he was born on June 13, 1878 in Morganfield, Kentucky. He grew up in Louisville where he worked on a newspaper and with the telephone company before deciding to study medicine. His medical degree was obtained from the University of Louisville in 1901.

Opening his general practice in Lubbock after hearing a classmate tell of the scarcity of physicians in West Texas, Dr. Overton ministered to a large area of the state, operating his own drug store for a time and performing the first appendectomy in the city. In more recent years Dr. Overton had specialized in pediatrics, being author of a book entitled "Your Baby and Child". He was one of the owners of Krueger, Hutchinson and Overton Clinic, which was transferred to Methodist ownership last year, and had retired in June because of ill health.

A member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Lubbock-Crosby Counties Medical Society throughout his career, he was named to honorary membership in the state organization in 1950. He was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Dr. Overton aided in development of the first hospital in Lubbock, served as president of the First National Bank there for one year, was an alderman during the construction of the first sewer system, and a member of the school board when the first brick building, old Central Ward School, was erected. He was on the official board of the First Methodist Church throughout his residence in Lubbock. He and Mrs. Overton paid for the construction and furnishing of the Methodist Student Center; he established a loan fund at McMurry College in Abilene which has assisted more than 200 students; and he contributed to other Methodist institutions. For years he gave annual $200 scholarships to the Texas Technological College athletic department for the athlete exercising the greatest influence toward good morale of the football team. He also gave scholarships in the speech department of Texas Tech. He was a long-time member of the Rotary Club loan fund committee and held honorary membership in the club after many years of perfect attendance as a regular member. He also belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Commandery, and Shrine.

Evidence of Dr. Overton's civic activities in Lubbock are the following which bear his name: M.C. Overton Elementary School, Overton Tower of the First Methodist Church, Overton Addition (the first subdivision of Lubbock and developed by Dr. Overton), and the Overton Methodist Church (the site of which was donated by the doctor).

Dr. Overton married Miss Georgia Robertson of Louisville in 1902. Sons Marvin, Philip, Robert and George Buck were born to this union. Mrs. Overton died in 1916 and George Buck Overton in 1923. Dr. Overton married Miss Nannie M. Jennings of Lubbock in 1918, and two daughters were born to them. Surviving are his wife, three sons, two daughters, three sisters and twelve grandchildren, as follows: sons, Dr. Overton, Jr., Philip R. Overton and Robert Overton of Brownsville; daughters, Mrs. William T. West and Mrs. Watson Carlock, both of Lubbock; sisters, Mrs. Edward Hill, Miss Mary B. Overton and Miss Sue L. Overton, all of Dallas. One grandson, Dr. Philip Marvin Overton received his degree in medicine in June and is interning at Parkland Hospital in Dallas; two other grandsons are taking premed courses in college.

Family and friends have established the Overton Memorial Fund for Needy Children, which will be a trust administered by trustees of the Methodist Hospital of Lubbock.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

George Perry Rains, M.D. (1872-1955)

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Dr. George Perry Rains of Marshall, Texas died at his home on September 19, 1955, of coronary thrombosis. He was born on September 18, 1872 in Marshall, the son of Major Mercer Rains and Nancy Texas Arnett Rains. His early education was obtained in a private school in Marshall, and he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas in 1893.

For his medical training, he chose the University of Texas Medical Branch, from which he graduated in 1896. He obtained another medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania the following year. After serving his internship in the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Dr. Rains served as house physician at the Texas and Pacific Hospital in Marshall for a short time, then began his private practice there. He refreshed his medical knowledge periodically by taking courses at the New York Postgraduate Medical School.

Dr. Rains was elected an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association in 1954, after having been a member through the Harrison County Medical Society throughout his career. He was president of the county society in 1937. He was also a member of the Reserve Officers' Association, the Texas State Armory Board, the Military Surgeons Association, Phi Delta Theta social fraternity, the Masonic Lodge and the Elks.

Dr. Rains was a member of the board of directors of the Marshall National Bank, the Kahn Memorial Hospital, the Harrison County Red Cross and the Marshall and Sabine Pass Railroad. He served as vice-president of the hospital staff and was a trustee of the College of Marshall and its successor, East Texas Baptist College. He was treasurer of the local USO during World War II, and was city commissioner at one time. He was chairman of the board and president of the Rains and Talley Funeral Home and the Rains Insurance Company. He served as a deacon and then an honorary deacon in the First Baptist Church, which named its new education building, the Rains Children's Building, in his honor.

Dr. Rains' military career began in 1887, when he enlisted in the Army at the age of 15, and covered a period of 49 years. He rose from the rank of private to major general and retired in 1936 with the rank of brevet lieutenant. During World War I, he was a colonel in the Third Texas Infantry, and commanding officer successively of the Thirty-Sixth Military Police and Trains, the Sixty-First Pioneer Infantry, and of Camp Sheridan in Alabama. After World War I, he commanded the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Infantry, the Seventy-Second Infantry Brigade and the Thirty-Sixth Division. He was honorary life president of the Thirty-Sixth Division Association and was the first commander of the Smiley-Summers Legion Post in Marshall.

Dr. Rains married Miss Norma Pitts in Marshall on April 26, 1899. They had no children. Mrs. Rains died on February 16, 1953. Survivors are three nephews and two nieces.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine in December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Talmage Oliver Woolley, M.D. (1885-1955)

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Dr. Talmage Oliver Woolley of Orange, Texas died September 21, 1955 of acute myocardial infarction. The attack occurred while he was undergoing a routine physical examination in a local hospital. He was born January 28, 1885 in Overton, the son of James Hershal and Julia Cobb Woolley.

After attending public schools in Overton, he entered Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating in 1911. In 1926 he earned a degree in health education from Columbia University in New York, and he did other postgraduate work in 1930 at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.

Dr. Woolley began his medical practice in Palestine, where he was assistant house surgeon at the International and Great Northern Railway Employees Hospital. He practiced briefly in both Arp and Germantown. During World War I he served with the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, and at Fort Bliss. He was discharged as a captain in 1917.

Moving to Houston to continue his practice in 1921, Dr. Woolley became a staff member of the Baptist Hospital and was a professor of hygiene in the Houston public schools. Ten years later, he moved to Brenham and was associated with the St. Francis Hospital. Continuing his practice in Orange in 1941, Dr. Woolley was a staff member of the Orange City Hospital.

He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations almost continuously throughout his career through the Anderson, Smith, Victoria-Calhoun-Goliad, Harris, Washington and Orange Counties Medical Societies. He was secretary of the Washington County Society in 1933 and 1934, and was elected president in 1938. He served as president of the Orange County Society from 1943-1945 and again in 1947. He was also a member of the Tenth District Medical Society. Dr. Woolley was given an award of appreciation for his efforts in planning and building the Orange County Memorial Hospital in 1954.

He was a steward and trustee of the First Methodist Church, a member of Rotary International, and a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Shrine. Dr. Woolley married Miss Livy Mae Cunningham in Tyler on August 11, 1912. Mrs. Woolley survives, as do three children: Mrs. C.I. Whitehead of Houston, John P. Woolley of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. O.H. Landua of Annapolis, Maryland. He also leaves three sisters: Mrs. S.W. Adams of Austin, Mrs. S.M. Swindall of Brookfield, Illinois, and Mrs. A.F. Allen of Glenwood Spring, Colorado. One brother, J.P. Woolley of Shreveport, Louisiana, and thirteen grandchildren also survive.

Spencer Allen Collom, Jr., M.D. (1904-1955)

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Dr. Spencer Allen Collom, Jr. died at his home in Texarkana on October 10, 1955. He was born in Ratcliff, Texas on February 4, 1904, the son of Dr. Spencer A. Collom and Eugenie (Read) Collom. After graduating from Texarkana High School, he entered Washington University in St. Louis in 1921.

In 1925, he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas, then graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville in 1929. His internship was in the Fort Sam Houston Station Hospital in San Antonio. With the exception of three years of military service during World War II, Dr. Collom practiced in Texarkana throughout his professional career, where he was associated with the Collom-Carney Clinic.

During the war, he was chief of orthopedic services at the Three Hundredth General Hospital in Italy. He earned the Bronze Star and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps.

Dr. Collom was a staff member of the Kansas City Southern and St. Louis Southwestern Railroads hospitals. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bowie County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He was also a member of the Tri-State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Fracture Society. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the president of the Texarkana Hospital's board of directors.

He was also president of the Temple Memorial Home for Crippled Children, and was honorary president at the time of his death. He was president of the Texarkana chapter of Rotary International, and the Texarkana Knife and Fork Club, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He was a member of the Congregational Church.

Dr. Collom married Miss Mary Maddox in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 12, 1929. Mrs. Collom survives, as do one daughter, Mrs. Samuel A. Buchanan, Jr. of Texarkana; his mother, Mrs. Spencer A. Collom of Texarkana; and two sisters, Mrs. G.D. Gantt of Houston and Mrs. J.W. Hill of Dallas.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

David E. Sauer, M.D. (1909-1955)

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Dr. David E. Sauer of Lubbock, Texas died in a Denver hospital on October 9, 1955 from coronary insufficiency. He was born October 21, 1909 in Madisonville, Ohio and received his bachelor of arts degree from the Ohio Western University in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical College in 1936 after which he completed his internship and surgical residency in the Youngstown City Hospital.

From 1939 until 1945 Dr. Sauer was chief of the surgical staff at the Kercheval Memorial Clinic in Kingwood, West Virginia. He came to Texas in 1946 and practiced briefly in Raymondville and Hale Center before moving to Kermit in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Lubbock, where he was on the staff of the Methodist Hospital, the West Texas Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital at the time of his death.

Dr. Sauer was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations successively through the county medical societies of Cameron-Willacy, Reeves-Ward-Winkler-Loving-Culberson-Hudspeth, where he was president in 1951, and Lubbock-Crosby counties. He was also a member of the American Academy of General Practice, the Presbyterian church, and Rotary International.

Dr. Sauer married Miss Svea Virginia Burman in Raymondville, Texas, in 1947. He is survived by his wife, one sister, Mrs. Ralph Koehl of Columbus, Ohio; and two brothers, W. Denslow Sauer and George D. Sauer, both of Marietta, Ohio.

++ ++ ++ Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Lilburn Echols Standifer, M.D. (1895-1955)

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Dr. Lilburn Echols Standifer of Lamesa, Texas, died September 15, 1955 at a hospital in Big Spring. He had been in ill health since 1951, when he suffered a heart attack.

Dr. Standifer was born on June 4, 1895 in Tulia, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Standifer. He attended public schools in Spur and did his premed work at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, but received his degree in 1925 from the Tulane University School of Medicine.

He began his practice in Junction, and practiced in Lamesa, Turkey, Oklahoma City, Vernon, Spur and Austin. During World War II, he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps and participated in the African Campaign. In 1946 he returned to Lamesa and practiced there until his retirement in 1951.

He was a member of the Texas Medical Association during most of his professional career, through the Dawson-Lynn-Gaines, Menard-Kimble, McCulloch, Childress-Collingsworth-Donley-Hall, Wilbarger, or Dawson-Lynn-Terry-Gaines-Yoakum Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the latter group in 1947 and had previously served as its secretary. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. He was a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of Rotary International, the Masonic Order including the Shrine, and the Methodist Church.

Dr. Standifer was married April 25, 1927 in El Paso, to Miss Edith Steele. Survivors are Mrs. Standifer and one daughter, Mrs. Marshall A. Pharr. Mrs. Pharr lives in Port Lyantey, French Morocco, where her husband is in military service. Dr. Standifer's sister Mrs. John L. Sallee of Lubbock, also survives.

--- --- --- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Julius Ernest Levick, M.D. (1899-1955)

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Dr. Julius Ernest Levick of Houston died on August 26, 1955 after a short illness. He was born on January 29, 1899 in Ekaterinoslav, now called Dnepropetrovsk, Russia, the son of Moses and Molly Levick. After coming to North America, he attended the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, and the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1922.

He served an internship in the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg for one year, then served a general residency in Vancouver General Hospital for one year, then spent another year of general internship at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He practiced medicine in Elk City, Oklahoma from 1925 until 1949.

Dr. Levick was an officer in the Army Medical Corps from 1942 until 1945, during which time he received training in psychiatry. He moved to Houston in 1949 and became a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he was practicing at the time of his death.

Dr. Levick became affiliated with the Texas Medical Association through the Harris County Medical Society, and was also a member of the American Medical Association, Phi Delta Epsilon medical fraternity, the Masonic Lodge, the Kiwanis Club and Temple Beth Israel. He was married to Miss Dena Weinberg in Oklahoma City in 1926.

Survivors are two daughters; Mrs. Melvin Anchell and Miss Diana Levick of Houston, a son, Norman Levick of Amarillo, and five grandchildren.

--- --- --- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Wilfrid Edward Muldoon, M.D. (1896-1955)

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Dr. Wilfrid Edward Muldoon died October 3, 1955 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio on November 29, 1896 and received his preliminary education there. Following his graduation from high school, he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he earned his bachelor of science degree in 1920. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1922, and went to the Panama Canal Zone, where he interned at the Ancon Hospital for one year.

Dr. Muldoon practiced in the Tela Railroad Hospital in Honduras for two years before going to Europe to study ophthalmology at the University of Paris, the University of Bordeaux and the University of Vienna. Returning to the United States, he served a two-year residency in ophthalmology at the Wills eye Hospital in Philadelphia before beginning his own practice in San Antonio.

Dr. Muldoon was a member of the Bexar County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Association, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and was a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He was also a member of the Association Medico Hondureno and the American Medical Association of Vienna.

Survivors include Mrs. Muldoon, a son, William Henry Muldoon, a daughter, Miss Laurie Muldoon, all of San Antonio, and three brothers, William H. Muldoon of San Antonio, James Muldoon of Baltimore, Edward M. Muldoon of Archbold, Ohio; and three sisters, Mrs. Edna Pyle of San Antonio, Miss Mary Blanche Muldoon of Toledo, and Mrs. Fred C. Medicus of Berkeley, California.

-- -- -- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Harold H. Boehning, M.D. (1893-1955)

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Dr. Harold H. Boehning, senior physician at Abilene State Hospital, died in Dallas on August 31, 1955. He had gone to Dallas for a vacation and to visit with his daughters who live there.

Dr. Boehning was born on December 13, 1893 in Elgin, Illinois, and moved to Canyon, Texas at the age of eleven. After attending Clarendon College, he entered Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and received his B.A. degree in 1923. In 1927, he graduated from the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas.

Miss Grace Clark, a nursing student, and Dr. Boehning were married on July 3, 1928. After they completed their training, they went to Korea as medical missionaries of the Methodist Church and remained there until 1940, when they returned to Abilene, and Dr. Boehning joined the staff of the Abilene State Hospital. He was appointed assistant superintendent in 1943.

Survivors include Mrs. Boehning, a son, Dr. Harold Clark Boehning, now stationed in Fort Bliss; two daughters, Mrs. Richard Archer and Mrs. Robert Clawson, both of Dallas; and five brothers: Clarence W.H. of Abilene, Walter of Canyon, Alvin of Amarillo, Willard of Wildorado, and Kenneth of Omaha, Nebraska. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Ester Sembritzke of Clyde.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Burton Watson Allen, M.D. (1893-1955)

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Dr. Burton Watson Allen of Dallas, Texas, died on September 19, 1955, in a local hospital. He was born in Edwardsville, Alabama on December 15, 1893 to Mr. and Mrs. James M.L. Allen. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce, and graduated from Baylor University College of Medicine (Dallas) in 1931.

Following an internship at Providence Hospital in Waco, he began his medical practice in Dallas. After a brief stay, he moved to Mabank. In 1938 he returned to Dallas, where he was in active practice until the time of his death.

He was a member of the Dallas County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of General Practice, the Christian Church, and the Masonic Lodge. He married Miss Roberta White on June 16, 1918 in Mabank, Texas.

Survivors include Mrs. Allen, a daughter, four sisters and two brothers. His daughter is Mrs. Homer A. Taylor of Houston. His sisters are Mrs. Stephen Clay of Dallas, Mrs. Annie Sharples of Waco, Mrs. Mary Jo Haskin of Overton, and Mrs. Wade Pipes of Shodurant, Louisiana. His brothers are Cornelius Allen of Delhi, Louisiana and J. Alexander Allen of Choccolocco, Alabama. He also leaves two granddaughters.

+++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Rush Quinn Hunter, M.D. (1897-1955)

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Dr. Rush Quinn Hunter of Palestine, Texas, died in a local hospital on September 19, 1955. He was born on December 10, 1897 in Bullard, and was the son of Dr. Ripley Hayes Hunter and Bernice Jones Hunter. He attended Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, then went to Southern Methodist University, from which he graduated in 1918.

He received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1922. After serving an internship at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, he served a residency at the Missouri Pacific Railroad Hospital in Palestine and began his practice there. In partnership with his brother, Dr. R.H. Hunter, and a nephew, Dr. R.H. Kay, he owned and operated the Hunter-Hunter-Kay Clinic in Palestine until the time of his death.

Dr. Hunter was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Anderson-Houston-Leon Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1936. He was also a member of the Eleventh District Medical Society, Alpha Kappa Alpha medical fraternity, Rotary International, the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist Church. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and chief of staff at Memorial Hospital. From 1918 until 1920, Dr. Hunter was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps.

On September 24, 1924, Dr. Hunter married Miss Aline West in Bay City, Texas. Mrs. Hunter and two children, Mrs. Mary Martha Styner and Rush Q. Hunter, Jr., both of Austin, survive. He also leaves five sisters; Mrs. L.F. Kay, Mrs. Hunt Graham and Mrs. Ray Smith, all of Tyler, Mrs. N.C. Garrison of Garrison, and Mrs. Charles R. Guinn of Waco; and one brother, Dr. R.H. Hunter of Palestine.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Joe Stewart Kirkpatrick, M.D. (1915-1955)

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Dr. Joe Stewart Kirkpatrick of Fort Worth, Texas, died on September 6, 1955. He was born December 23, 1915 in Winchester, Ohio, the son of Earl and Lida Kirkpatrick. He attended high school in Columbia, Ohio and Ohio State University, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1938. Prior to his entry in medical school, he was employed by General Motors in Flint and Detroit, Michigan as an insurance investigator.

In 1945, Dr. Kirkpatrick entered Ohio State University Medical School in Columbus, from which he was graduated in 1949. He did his internship and residence in Harris Hospital, Fort Worth. He practiced in Fort Worth from 1951 until the time of his death. He was a member of the Tarrant County Medical Society, Thirteenth District Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, American Medical Association, Fort Worth Internist Club, and Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical fraternity.

He was married on April 16, 1942, to Miss Frieda R. Materna in Flint, Michigan. He is survived by Mrs. Kirkpatrick and two sons; Joel David, 5, and Michael Stephen, 3; his mother Mrs. Lida McMeekin of Worthington, Ohio; one brother, Philip Kirkpatrick of New Orleans; and three sisters, Mrs. Fred B. Smith of Worthington, Mrs. John Neff of Chicago, and Mrs. O.R. Edgington of Englewood, Ohio.

=== === published in the Texas Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

William Mason Dickens, M.D. (1888-1955)

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Dr. William Mason Dickens, chief medical director of the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Waco, Texas, died of a coronary occlusion in a Brownwood hospital on July 28, 1955. He had started on a short business trip and had to stop at Brownwood after suffering a heart attack.

Dr. Dickens was born January 11, 1888 in Merit, Texas, the son of Samuel Marshall and Virginia Dee (Wilcoxon) Dickens. He attended North Texas State Normal College in Denton, and Grayson College, Whitewright, before entering the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1911. He interned in Roosevelt Hospital in New York for a year and a half, then began his practice in Greenville, where he remained until 1941.

At that time, he entered the Army Medical Corps and served at Camp Bowie, Camp Claiborne (in Louisiana) and at the induction center in Houston. At the close of the war, when he was retired as a lieutenant colonel, he was named a medical officer for the Veterans Administration and had been assigned to the regional office in Waco for several years at the time of his death. He also served overseas in the Medical Corps during World War I.

Dr. Dickens was a member of the Texas Medical Association through the Hunt County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He served as city health officer of Greenville for four years, and in 1937 he was appointed to the State Board of Health. He belonged to the Baptist Church.

He was interested in military affairs, and while practicing in Greenville he organized Company M, 14th Infantry of the National Guard, and served as captain of the company. He was active in the American Legion and served as first vice-state commander and a member of the board of trustees. He enjoyed fishing and spent leisure time on a farm recently purchased in Arkansas.

Dr. Dickens and Miss Vera Estelle Davis were married on June 30, 1914 in Farmersville; Mrs. Dickens died on September 30, 1942. Two children, Miss Betty J. Dickens of Waco and Dr. William R. Dickens of Cincinnati, Ohio and three grandchildren survive.

=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Joseph Edward Jones, M.D. (1887-1955)

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Dr. Joseph Edward Jones died at his home in Waxahatchie, Texas on September 1, 1955, of a brain hemorrhage. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jones, and was born on November 4, 1887 in Hico. He attended Fort Worth University, then entered the old Physio-Medical College of Texas in Dallas. Dr. Jones completed his medical education at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas in 1914. Later in his career, he took several postgraduate courses.

He began his practice in Boyce, and remained there for four years before moving to Waxahachie, where he practiced for 37 years. He was a member of the Ellis County Medical Society, the Fourteenth District Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He had served on the city council and was a deacon in the First Baptist Church.

During World War I, Dr. Jones was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and was stationed at Camp Kearney, California. He and Miss Luda Laird were married on December 24, 1906 in Purves. Mrs. Jones survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Romney Rudolph and Mrs. Wylie Motley of Waxahachie; four brothers, Robert Jones of Lubbock, Dee Jones and Leo Jones of Electra, and Herman Jones of Los Angeles. Two sisters; Mrs. J.F. Warren of Dublin, and Mrs. Charner Allen of Frederick, Oklahoma.

=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Edward Bacon Brannin, M.D. 1886-1955

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Dr. Edward Bacon Brannin of Dallas, Texas, died in a local hospital on September 13, 1955. Dr. Brannin was born on September 19, 1886 in Cisco, Texas and was the son of Lewis Edward and Katie Bacon Brannin.

He graduated from Texas Christian University, then in Waco, in 1905, then spent two years in the old Fort Worth Medical College. He completed his medical education at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1909, and has practiced medicine in Dallas since that time.

He took postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, specializing in gynecology and endocrinology.

He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and also was a member of the Dallas Southern Clinical Society and Phi Chi medical fraternity. Dr. Brannin's membership in other organizations included Phi Delta Theta, Rotary International, the Dallas Athletic Club and the Community Church.

During World War I, he was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Deming, New Mexico and Camp Fullerton, Kansas.

Miss Mary Fidelia Skiles and Dr. Brannin were married on July 3, 1911 in Sherman, Texas. Mrs. Brannin survives, as do two daughters; Mrs. Arch J. McNeill and Mrs. E. Martin Caldwell, both of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Schneider of Washington D.C., and Mrs. D.D. Templeton of DeWitt, New York. He is also survived by four brothers, Dr. Dan Brannin and C.P. Brannin of Dallas, Louis D. Brannin of Ramona, Oklahoma and R.C. Brannin of Great Bend, Kansas.

+++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

A Pen and a Penny

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Question my mental health if you must, but I'm now certain that Jim is alive and well ..... and out there somewhere. Oh, he’s not a ghost or any kind of apparition. He’s not scary and he doesn’t “live” in this house any more. He does let me know he’s around, however, especially when I talk to him.

Call it my imagination. That’s what I called it at first. But after ten “coincidences” in the 20 weeks he’s been gone, I can’t keep explaining it away. And what happened last Tuesday morning sealed it for me.

Like most couples, we had discussed this issue and promised each other that we would try to return. We would pop in and let the surviving one know we were okay, just to reassure them. Jim is a brilliant man, and a very stubborn one indeed. Once he makes up his mind about something, don’t even think about trying to change it. Most of his Brannon relatives, all his AA friends and half his clients will tell you the same thing. So I was even a bit surprised that it took him five months (almost to the day) to make his grand entrance.

Monday had been a very busy day for me, with a dead battery on the truck and a bunch of errands to run, but Tuesday morning I was up bright and early. The truck was fixed, most of the errands had been taken care of by my wonderful neighbors and life was good. I was in the kitchen doing my usual daily eBay packing and shipping routine. As soon as the packages were ready, I was leaving for a full day of historical research.

Watching the clock and focused on packing slips, strapping tape and brown envelopes, I wasn’t thinking of Jim at all. Country music was playing softly and I was finishing up my second cup of coffee when I was startled by the noise of a ballpoint pen hitting the floor. It was at least 8 feet from me, on the other end of the kitchen island. There was nothing but empty island between my packing materials and a few items on the other end: a loaf of bread, a small framed picture I’m taking on an upcoming trip, a magazine or two and apparently a ballpoint pen. Jim just pushed it off the end of the island to get my attention.

Photo by John Alan Hall

After my startle reflex, I froze. I held my breath and listened. Nothing. No cold spots, weird noises, floating orbs or flashes of light. Just the sound of Willie or Waylon or somebody on the radio. After a few seconds, I said out loud “Did you do that?” Silence. I smiled and said “Congratulations, big guy, you figured it out. Thanks”.

Remember how Patrick Swayze pushed that penny around for Demi Moore in “Ghost”? Maybe somewhere, somehow, on some other level of existence, Patrick shared his technique with Jim. Who knows? I’m just so happy he popped in and I’m hoping he’ll come back once in a while.

Mrs. N.A. Jackson, 1845-1940

2011-07-14T17:15:00.000-05:00

Mrs. N. A. Jackson (possibly Nancy Ann) was born 24 December 1845 in San Augustine County, Texas. Her parents were H. McMuldin (born in Alabama) and Nancey M. Flanks McMuldin (birthplace unknown).

Mrs. Jackson died on 15 May 1940 at her home on Denton Road, FortWorth, Tarrant County, Texas. She was 94 years old and widowed. She fell and fractured her hip, then got pneumonia. The informant for the death certificate was Mrs. J. M. Hughes of the home.

The undertaker was Robertson-Mueller-Harper, Inc. of Ft. Worth, and the burial was at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Ft. Worth. The attending physician was W. P. Higgins of the Medical Arts Building, also in Ft. Worth.

For more than a decade, back in the 1980s, I owned a company that did adoption searches. Now I am cleaning out old files, and before I toss certain documents I like to put the information on the web for posterity. I have no further information regarding this family.

Baby Girl Kathrine Chandler, a Texas adoptee

2011-07-04T11:06:00.000-05:00

The following information comes from an original Texas birth certificate dated 5 June 1941. The certificate was found in the estate of an attorney who handled a lot of adoptions. We are almost certain that this child was adopted, probably in April 1945, in Harris County, Texas. We have no knowledge of who the adoptive parents were; we offer this information for genealogical purposes.

The child was named Katherine or Kathrine Chandler. The handwriting is messy. She was born in St. Joseph's Maternity Hospital in Houston, Texas on June 5, 1941. Her mother was Julia Bates Martin, a white woman, age 21 [1920], born in Terrell, Texas. Julia was a waitress at the Hill Top Drive-In and lived at 3918 Day Street in Houston.

The child's father was Ralph Benjamin Chandler. He was white, 28 years old [1913], born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a photographer. His whereabouts were unknown at the time of Kathy's arrival, but the birth was legitimate, according to the certificate.

The certified copy of the certificate is dated 12 Apr 1945, and is labeled as "Exhibit 1", presumably for the court proceedings. It also has a notation of Book 108, Page 29. The birth certificate number is 4023. The last four digits of the adopted person's certificate should also be 4023; that's the way it's done in Texas.

We have no further information about this family. We transcribe it here for future generations.

A new widow's perspective on men

2011-05-29T17:58:00.001-05:00

Today I attended a Memorial Day event at a halfway house, and took a truckload of Jim’s clothes, shoes, belts, ties, suspenders and other man-stuff with me as a donation. It turned out I was the only female there. Most of these fellows either knew Jim or knew “of” him, and they all seemed glad to see me (or maybe it was the truckload of clothes they were glad to see.)

I sat there eating my lunch from a paper plate that was balanced on my lap, with at least three men eager to be my personal waiter. They brought me a Coke, and asked if I wanted this or that, and were attentive, hanging on my every word. Golly. I had forgotten about men.

At first, I didn’t know what to think about my “popularity”. All these fellows are alcoholics or drug addicts or both, either staying at the facility or attending AA meetings there. I decided they must be interested in hearing about Jim and/or his clothes, but I soon discovered that wasn’t the case after all.

Then I decided since most of them are young enough to be my children or grandchildren, they were hanging around me because I reminded them of Momma and Home. Haha. Strike Two.

After lunch, I wandered over to the pool table area and watched some of them swagger and strut and posture themselves as championship pool sharks. A small crowd gathered as they bantered around, and I tried to stay inconspicuous. It was fun to just watch and remember what strange creatures men are. LOL.

Eventually I couldn’t help but notice that a few of them were actually looking at me as if I were a WOMAN. This came as quite a shock, because I haven’t had any of that kind of male attention for at least fifteen years (except from Jim of course). Or if I did I was oblivious to it.

So far, widowhood is a mixed bag for me. Male attention of any description after only three months seems strange, but it might be a wake-up call for me. I just hope the next time I am on the receiving end of this kind of behavior, the cultural dynamic might be considerably different and I might pay more attention to these creatures called men.