DR. JAMES ROY TWEEDY



In Cobden
Ex-Country Doctor Dies
Cobden's country doctor, James Roy Tweedy, died at his home at 6 p.m. Wednesday. He was 84. 
He had practiced medicine 56 years before he retired in 1961.  During his career he delivered 2,540 babies.
 Early in his career he made most of his calls driving a team of horses. His first car was a 1913 Maxwell.
Dr Tweedy practiced in Huey, Ava, Oraville and Vergennes, then moved to Cobden in 1917.
He continued to practice in Cobden for more than 40 years, gradually giving up all but his routine office practice. 
He was the town's only doctor in 1958 when he said he was unable to retire completely. "I can't quit now and continue to live here, " he said.  "People would
pester me to death."
Dr. Tweedy's problem was solved when Cobden raised $25,000 to found a modern clinic and attract another doctor to the community. Dr. Helmut Hartmann set up
practice in the clinic in 1959 and Dr. Tweedy retired after that.
Dr. Tweedy's brother, Walter Robert, also was a physician. He was Royalton's only doctor until his death in 1958.
Dr. Tweedy was born Feb. 14, 1880, in Union County near Alto Pass. He was the son of James and Alice Freeman Tweedy. 
The family moved to Makanda when he was a small child.
Dr Tweedy received his degree from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1905. He served
in the Army Medical Corps in World War I.  He was stationed at Rockford.
He was a member of the Union County Hospital medical staff.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cobden and the Union County Medical Society.
He leaves his wife, Zella; and a son, Raymond, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church, Cobden, with Rev. Lyman Allen, former pastor of the church, and Rev. Clifford Heil, the pastor, officiating

--Southern Illinoisan 09 Jul 1964, page 2, contributed by Pat Moore.