Tuten, James Greene, M. D., is
one of the able and popular representatives of the medical profession
in Wayne county, being established in an excellent representative
practice at Jesup. He was born near Staffords, Hampton county, S. C.,
Feb. 15, 1870, and in the same locality his father, John Asa Tuten, was
born, Feb. 22, 1846. His mother, whose maiden name was Susan Catherine
Dowling, was born near Blackville, Barnwell county, S. C., Jan. 31,
1845. John A. Tuten was a valiant and loyal soldier of the Confederacy
in the war between the states, having enlisted, in 1862, as a member of
Kanta Paux artillery, a fine South Carolina command with which he was
in active service until the close of the war, taking part in a number
of important engagements incidental to the campaigns in the Carolinas,
including the battles of Honey Hill, Orangeburg and Buford's Bridge, S.
C., and Columbia, Averasboro and Bentonville, N. C. He was paroled, at
Salisbury, N. C. in April, 1865. The father died in 1891 and the mother
in 1899. Dr. Tuten secured his preliminary educational training in the
schools of Hampton county, S. C., and his technical discipline,
preparing him for the work of his exacting profession, was gained in
the medical department of the University of Georgia, in which he was
graduated March 3, 1890. He has been unswerving in his devotion to his
profession and has gained marked prestige as a physician and surgeon,
while he is one of the popular citizens of Jesup, commanding the
uniform confidence and esteem of the community. He is a member of the
American medical association, the International association of railway
surgeons and the Medical Association of Georgia. He has twice had
yellow fever and is thus immune, while it has been his privilege to
render most valuable service in epidemics of this dreaded scourge of
the south. He was acting assistant surgeon in the United States
marine-hospital service, at Jesup, during the epidemic of 1893; was
similarly engaged at Scranton, Miss., in 1897; and at the soldiers'
home in Hampton, Va., in 1899. He is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, is a stanch advocate of the
principles of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are
members of the Methodist church. On Dec. 10, 1891, he was united in
marriage to Miss Minnie Lee Walters, daughter of Charles W. and Augusta
Walters, of Montezuma, Ga., and the children of this union are: Mamie
Louise, born Oct. 21, 1894, and James Greene, Jr., born Dec. 20, 1897.
Source: Comprising
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,
1906
Wilkins, Willis Jackson, D. D.
S.
Wilkins, Willis Jackson,
D. D. S., is engaged in the practice of his profession in Eastman and
is recognized as one of the representative dental surgeons of Dodge
county. He was born in Suffolk, Nansemond county, Va., May 26, 1869, a
son of Josiah and Georgiana (Skinner) Wilkins, both of whom were
likewise native of the Old Dominion state, where they passed their
entire lives, the father's death occurring in March, 1901, and the
mother having passed away May 4, 1894; they rest side by side in the
cemetery of Cypress Chapel, Nansemond county. Josiah Wilkins served as
a valiant soldier of the Confederacy during practically the entire
period of the Civil war as a member of a company of sharpshooters from
Virginia. He had three brothers and two sisters and all are now
deceased except one of the sisters, Lucy, who is the wife of Abraham
Griffin, of Nansemond county. After duly availing himself of the
advantages of the common schools of his native state Doctor Wilkins
continued his studies for two years in the Suffolk military academy,
after which he was identified with mercantile pursuits for several
years. He then came to Georgia and entered the Atlanta dental college,
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, receiving
his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He established himself in the
practice of his profession at Jesup, Wayne county, where he met with
excellent success, and remained there until March, 1906, when he took
up his residence in the thriving little city of Eastman, where his
ability has gained for him prompt recognition, insuring him a large and
prosperous professional business. In politics the doctor gives an
unswerving support to the Democratic party and fraternally he is
identified with the Knights of Pythias. On April 9, 1902, was
solemnized the marriage of Doctor Wilkins to Miss Lillian Jarrell, of
Butler, Taylor county, Ga., and she was summoned to the life eternal
Sept. 22, 1905, survived by two children—Willis Jarrell, born Sept. 6,
1903, and Luther Hill, born June 16, 1905. In conclusion it may be
stated that Doctor Wilkins is one of a family of nine children, all of
whom are living except one: William Thomas, Theodore Scott, Eoline,
Joseph Henry, Annie Lou, Georgia Ophelia, Willis Jackson, Mattie
Gertrude and Abram L. Eoline is the wife of S. A. Baker, of Jesup, Ga.;
Annie Lou is deceased;
Georgia O. is the wife of M. E. Gay, of Suffolk, Va.; Mattie G. is the
wife of D. L. Harrell, of Cypress Chapel, Va.; and Abram L. is a
successful physician and surgeon of Eastman, Ga.
