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Garvin County, Oklahoma
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Garvin County's
Doctors
The information was submitted by various
people
and some are taken from the 1957
"Garvin County
History"
which was
sponsored by the Pauls Valley Chamber of
Commerce
If you
have anything else about these
Doctors, or any
I have not found yet please let me know.
| Dr. Robert Lee Baker, M.D. rests at Oaklawn Cemetery
in
Wynnewood, Garvin County, Oklahoma,
where he practices medicine from 1901
until his death there November 26,
1932. Like doctors of his time he
traveled to his patients, day or night,
whenever he was needed and
received much
of his fee in chickens, eggs and livestock. He would
arrive driving a span of big gray horses
hitched to a double buggy which
he had
had shipped by boxcar from Missouri. Dr. Baker was born
November 17, 1868, in Raleigh, North
Carolina. From there his family
moved to New London, Arkansas, where he
studied medicine and obtained his
degree
in 1892 from the University of Arkansas. Mattie C. Tyree
became him
wife on July 9, 1893.
They made their home in West Plains, Missouri
where he established his first practice
with Mattie's father, Dr. S.B.
Tyree. They moved to Bakersfield,
Missouri, on to Texas in 1898 and
later
to Wynnewood in 1901. Dr. Baker served proudly in World
War I,
at Ft. Sill and later in
Portland, Oregon. Mattie was born at
Bakersfield, Missouri May 26, 1871 and
passed away October 4, 1940. She
rests
beside Robert at Oaklawn, as do most of their children.
Their
children were Willis Tyree, Fred
Bryan, Robert Lee Jr., Paul Eugene, Mary
Virginia, James Harold, Lillian
Josephine, Ralph Edward and Martha
Ruth. |
| Dr. S.L. Burns, 81, Stonewall, pioneer physician of this
area, died
Friday afternoon at a local
rest home. Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2:30 in the Smith Funeral
Chapel with burial in the McGee
Cemetery
in Stratford, Oklahoma. The genial ex-Arkansawyer who came to
what is now Oklahoma in 1904, practiced
medicine until recently, when his
health
forced him to retire. Dr. Burns practiced continuously
from
1898 until his recent
retirement. He left Arkansas in 1904 to come
to Indian Territory, settling at
Hennepin, west of Davis. In 1899 he
graduated with a degree in medicine from
Vanderbilt University but he'd
begun
practicing a year earlier.He was the epitome of the
'old-fashioned
practitioner'. He
did everything from delivering babies (and
changing them, when the need arose), to
pulling teeth. In 1 954
look-back
through the years, he found that he had delivered 4,035
babies. Never one to rely on the
old days entirely, he welcomed the
advent of modern methods, readily
accepted the antibiotics but believed in
an occasional dose of castor oil or
Epsom salts. He was born in
Boone
County, Arkansas, 'clear out in the country', in 1876.
His
father and grandfather were
Tennesseans, his father moving to Arkansas,
where Dr. Burns was born. Dr. Sam
A. McKeel, Ada resident for many
years,
grew up in the same part of Tennessee and recalls a boyhood
trip to
the gristmill and tannery owned
by Dr. Burn's grandfather. In 1911
Dr.. Burns moved to the Maxwell
area. Living was hard., he recalled
to friends. He paid $15.00 down on
a house which cost $200.00.
He
also recalled being flat broke. A neighbor woman gave
him some
mustard seed and he waited
impatiently until March for the weather to dry
up enough so that he could plant the
seed. "I never would eat greens
in
Arkansas." he said smilingly, "but I did here. It was
eat greens
or not eat." Someone
gave him a fat hog on a bill and the family had
milk and butter, bacon and greens.
An excellent story-teller, he had
chuckles out of many experiences, some
of them dealing with practically
unbroken teams of horses he sometimes
drove with the buggy he used in the
pre-automobile days. But when cars
became general he switched to
them. Later he moved to Stratford
and then to Stonewall, and
practiced
there many years until his retirement. In 1948 he and
Dr.
McKeel were honored by the Oklahoma
Medical Association for 50 years of
practice. Surviving are his wife,
Effie, a daughter, Mrs. Marquerite
McGinnis, of Alvin, Texas, and
step-daughter, Mr. Dena Vaye Nagel of
Davenport, Iowa; a son, L.H. Burns of
Omaha and a stepson, Frank M Lynn of
Greenland, New Hampshire; Sisters, Mrs.
Jennie Ising of California; Mrs.
Zula
Bryan and Mrs. Sallie Holmes of Harrison, Arkansas; Brothers,
Dr.
Charles Burns of Bokoshe, Mark of
Lubbock, Texas and Frank of Harrison,
Arkansas; 10 grandchildren. Ada Evening
News, July 7, 1957. |
| Dr. James R. Callaway was born in Denton County, Texas,
August
12,1854. He moved with his
family to Idaho as a small boy, but
returned to Texas in 1870. Frances
Elizabeth Clemens, a relative of
Samuel
Clemens (Mark Twain), became Mrs. James R. Callaway in
1867.
James entered the ministry
at the age of 19 and was an active minister for
several years. During this period
he acquired his medical education
and
graduated from the Fort Worth School of Medicine in
1897. He
moved to Elmore City in
1889 and later, in 1898, began his medical
practice there. In January of 1903
the Callaways moved to Pauls
Valley
where Dr. Calloway became a partner of Dr. T.C.
Branum.
This partnership was
dissolved in October of 1905 and later in November of
that same year Dr. Callaway formed a
partnership with Dr. N.H.
Lindsey.
They had offices over the Bank of Commerce in Pauls
Valley. Drs.Callaway, Lindsey
& Johnson established the first
hospital in Pauls Valley in rented
quarters over the Baker Drug Store on
June 1, 1916. In 1919 Dr. Callaway
dissolved this partnership when
his son,
Dr. John R. Callaway, and wife moved to Pauls Valley.
The
two Drs. Callaway formed an
association and later moved their offices to
the First Nation Bank building. |
| The first medical doctor to practice in Garvin County was
Dr. R.
Glisan in April of 1851. He
had previously been stationed at Camp
Arbuckle, which was founded near Byars
in McClain County in 1850.
Because
of rampant illness at the camp, Captain Randolph B. Marcy
moved
with the command to Wild Horse
Creek in April of 1851, when the camp was
located at the new site known as Fort
Arbuckle, about seven miles west of
Davis. Dr. Glisan remained at Fort
Arbuckle until November, 1854,
when he
was ordered to Baltimore to receive a new Army
assignment.
He was relieved by Dr.
Thomas H. Williams, the second doctor stationed at
the noted post in Indian
Territory. Dr. Glisan wrote a book, Journal
of Army Life, published by Bancroft
Company in 1874 (now out of print and
very rare) describing his life at old
Camp Arbuckle and Fort
Arbuckle. |
|
Dr. Gentry was born near Maynardville, Union County,
Tennessee, on
August 24, 1868, to Dr.
Pryor and Sarah Gentry. He graduated from
the Tennessee Medical College at
Knoxville, Tennessee in 1897. His
first practice was at Fork of the River,
Anderson County, Tennessee.
Later,
in 1901, he came to Bennington, Indian Territory. Dr.
Gentry
volunteered in World War I and
made First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps
on July 17, 1918. He was
discharged on March 5, 1919 and then went
to Foster, I.T., and practiced there and
at Pernell, I.T. untill
1925. He
practiced at Maysville from 1925 until his death in 1951,
except for a year he practiced at Coyle
and Davis. Dr. Gentry was
the
father of six children. |
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Alexander Washington Gray was born June 19, 1954, on a farm
near
Carnesville, Tennessee. He
graduated from a Philadelphia dental
college in 1879. He then moved to
Monterrey, Mexico for about 1 1/2
years,
after which he moved his practice to Colorado City, Texas,
where he
met his future wife, Mary
Peck. They were married in 1884 in Goliad,
Texas. The Grays moved to
Nashville, Tennessee, where Dr. Gray
attended the University of Tennessee
Medical College and graduated
February
25, 1889. The Grays returned to Goliad where Dr. Gray
began
his first medical practice, later
moving to Edna, Texas and then back to
Goliad before relocating to Pauls
Valley, Indian Territory, where he
practiced until his death in 1912.
Dr. Alexander W. and Mary Peck
Gray were
the parents of Francis Peck Gray, Alexander W. Gray, Jr.,
Viola
Gray, Mamie Gray and William
Thomas Gray |
| Adolphus Keever was born to James and F. Catherine Goodson
Keever in
1854 in North Carolina.
James was a well-known merchant, miller and
farmer. Dr. Keever took a literary
course at Rutherford College in
North
Carolina and graduated from Jefferson Medical College at
Phildelphia
in 1882. Dr. Keever first
practiced medicine in North Carolina before
moving to Dallas, TExas in 1888.
In 1901 he moved to Wynnewood, in
1902
to Erin Springs and in the later part of 1902 or early 1903 he
moved
to Lindsay, where he practiced
until his death in 1923. He married
Mary Summey Warlick in 1886. Their
union produced 3 children, James
Edwin
Keever, Claude Bernard Leever and Kathleen Warlick Keever.
Claude
was an Air Force Major and died
in 1954. Kathleen marrked M.E. Hoig
of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Keever and
his brother, Dr. J.H. Keever, were
among
the first physicians to locate in the Oak Cliff area west of
Dallas
and Dr. Keever was one of the
first doctors in Garvin County |
| Galvin Luther Johnson was born Sept 30, 1879 in Kingston,
Alabama, one
of a family of 16
children. He attended grade school in Alabama
until he went to Texas at the age of 20
and attended League High School
for a
year before teaching school in Navarro County. He graduated
from
Memphis Hospital Medical College in
1903 and first practiced in Lamar
County, Alabama before moving to
Johnson, I.T., near Byars. In 1905
Dr. Johnson married Zealand Harris,
daughter of J.A. Harris, who had a
store
in Byars. In 1910 they moved to Pauls Valley and he
formed a
partnership with Dr. T.C.
Branum. Dr. Johnson was one of the
founders of the Pauls Valley Sanitarium,
Pauls Valley's first hospital and
the
Lindsey-Johnson-Shirley Clinic and hospital which was formed
in 1937
at 220 North Chickasaw
Street. Dr. Johnson served in the Medical
Corps during World War I and ran the
clinic and hospital with Dr. Hugh H.
Monroe, while Drs. Edward T. Shirley and
Ray H. Lindsey were serving their
country during World War II. Dr.
Johnson was a member of the State
Board
of Medical Examiners. He was active in the Christian
Church,
and a Mason and a Shriner. |
| John Lindsey was born to Thomas and Laura Estes Lindsey,
March 21,
1868, in Kennedy, Fayette
County, Alabama. His childhood was spent at
Fayette, where he attended school.
He graduated from Memphis
Hospital
Medical College in 1898, specializing in surgery. After
graduation he moved to Indian Gap, Texas
before moving to Elmore
City to
join his brother, Dr. N.H. Lindsey, in 1899. In
September of
1901, John returned to
Alabama, where he married Jennie Anderson Hardy,
the daughter of the Rev. Edwin C. and
Sarah Jane Hardy of
Birmingham.
They returned to Elmore City where Dr. Lindsey practiced
medicine until his death January 15,
1929. |
|
Newton Harvey Lindsey was born at Anniston, Alabama on
January 20,
1870, one of eight children,
who were orphaned early. Newton and his
brother, John, worked for the railroad,
and became a locomotive
engineer.
He attended night school, and later attended Memphis
Medical College were he graduated in
1898. His first practice was in
St. Joe, Texas. While there he
married Kathleen Giddens of Silvels
Bend. Their children were Beatrice
and Paul. Beatrice married
Warren
Gibson Sr., Paul was an attorney in Pauls Valley and Ray
Harvey,
who was a doctor also. Newton
and Kathleen moved to Elmore City in 1899
and then in 1905 they relocated to Pauls
Valley where he formed a
partnership
with Dr. James R. Calloway who had also moved to Pauls Valley
from Elmore City. This partnership
later included Dr. Galvin
Johnson.
Dr. Calloway, Dr. Lindsey and Dr. Johnson established the
first hospital in Pauls Valley in 1916
in a rented space and ran it under
the
name of the Pauls Valley Sanitorium, with Maude Low as it's
first
superintendent. They later
relocated the hospital to what was known
as the Pratt boarding house at 500 N.
Willow, which is now the site of the
Stufflebean Funeral home. The
hospital was moved again in 1928 to
rooms over the Pauls Valley National
Bank. Newton's son, Ray Harvey served
his internship at Scott and White
Hosptial at Temple, Texas and then came
back to Pauls Valley in 1930 to work
with his father in the operation of
the
Sanitorium. Dr. Newton Harvey Lindsey died in
1934. Mrs.
Lindsey died in
1952. |
| Dr. Markham was born in 1867 near McKinney, Texas.
He studied at
Austin College in
Sherman, Texas and at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee, before graduating
from the Kentucky School of
Medicine at
Louisville in 1887. He first practiced in McKinney and then
Gainesville, Texas before moving to
Pauls Valley in 1899. He was
first
a member of the North Texas Medical Association and later a
member
of the Chickasaw Medical
Association, which was organized in May 15,
1900. When the Washita Valley
Medical Association was oranized on
March 15, 1906, he became a charter
member. Following statehood in
1907, the Washita Valley Medical
Association became the Garvin County
Medical Society. He was a member
of the Garvin County Medical
Society,
the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American
Association
until his death in
1933. Dr. Markham was granted a license to
practice medicine from the Board of
Medical Examiners for the Southern
District of the Indian Territory on July
4, 1904 at Ardmore. |
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Dr. Jesse Mooney (born 1866 died 1915) came to McGee in
March 1892, in
a covered wagon from
Washington Co., Arkansas, with his wife and three
small children. He put his sign on a
stake beside his covered wagon - his
temporary home - "Dr. J. Mooney". He
soon constructed a dugout for his
family
in the southwest part of the new town, as the confines of the
covered wagon were too crowded for
comfort. He also built the first drug
store in town, about 50 feet west of
Long's store, out of rough oak lumber
from the McGee sawmill. The drugstore
was the fourth business in McGee.
The
Mooneys likewise, made the fourth family here. The first baby
born in
town was Nina Olivia (Ollye)
Mooney, born May 22, 1892, the daughter of
Dr. Jesse Mooney and Ella Mooney. This
daughter married a man by the name
of
"Trout" and now lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma. On September
9, 1892
Dr. Mooney drove 45 miles in his
buggy and took four pupils to the first
enrollment at the University of
Oklahoma, then returned the 45 miles to
McGee the same day - 90 miles in a buggy
in one day! He drove his
familiar,
stalwart team of white horses, which were well known in his
community. Five years later, in February
of 1897, Dr. Mooney was sent for
by a
military escort from Fort Sill to go there and attend to the
seriously ill Geronimo, the old Apache
war chief, and his three children,
all
deathly ill with double peumonia. The old chief had refused
the
services of the military doctors at
the fort. In August 1896, Dr.
Mooney had made medical history in
Oklahoma by performing the first known
operation of Ceasarian Section in this
region, using a kitchen table as
his
operating table in a dugout nine miles west of McGee. His only
assistant was the frantic, though brave
little husband of the pioneer
family.
Both the baby and mother survived. |
| Andrew Jackson Robinson was born February 24, 1866 in
Georgia, a son
of George Reece and Nancy
Kelly Robinson. He married May Loper in
the First Baptist Church in Gainesville
on March 23, 1893. Dr.
Robinson
moved to Whitebead from Dawsonville in 1902. On about
April
13, 1905, he moved to Pauls Valley
and lived in a residence that had
formerly been occupied by Dr. A.W.
Gray's Sanitorium. Dr. Robinson
died while visiting a cousin, G.W. Hyde,
of Pueblo, Colorado on Oct 29,
1937. |
| Dr. Sampson was practicing in McGee in 1896. |
| William Eugene Settle was born Christmas morning, 1867, to
Francis
Marion Settle and Sarah David
Settle. On Christmas day, 1894, he
married Florence Brown. After the
wedding, they came to Wynnewood
and
lived in an apartment in the home of Mrs. Hotchkin, an
early-day
Presbyterian teacher in Indian
Territory. The Settles became one of
the group to organize the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in
Wynnewood.
With the exception of a few years, Dr. Settle practiced
in Garvin County from 1894 until his
death in Wynnewood in 1935.
Florence passed away on Christmas day,
1931. |
| Dr. Augustine Henry Shi was born in Georgia on July
15,1834 to James
Shi and Mary Paulina
Kirby but at the time of his death October 26,
1900 his wife was Mary Jane (Brawner)
Shi born October 20, 1844 to Pliney
Brawner and Nancy Mariah Westand,
Mary died July 6,
1931. He and
his wife are both buried in McGee Cemetery near
Stratford, Garvin County, Oklahoma.
Their children on the 1880 census are
Thomas Pat Shi, William Shi, Josephine
Shi, Augustine Shi, May
Shi and Lee
Shi. He came to the Indian Territory from Florida,
after two of his son, both Doctors: Dr.
Thomas Pat Shi and Dr. A. H.
Shi. |
Dr. Augustine Henry Shi was born October 10, 1873 in
Monroe County,
Georgia to Dr. Augustine
H. Shi and Mary Jane Brawner. He was
married to Bessie M. Jackson on October
12, 1903 in McGee, Chickasaw
Nation,
Indian Territory. She was the daughter of W. M.
Jackson. Dr. Shi died on February 26,
1967 and his wife followed him in
death
on November 4, 1968. Dr. Shi began to practice in
McGee
in 1896 and
continued practicing medicine the incredible total of 69
years in McGee and adjoining
Stratford. They are both buried in
McGee Cemetery near Stratford. Two
other Shi brothers, Cap and Buck,
came
to McGee and bought out the W.W McGee cotton
gin.
(Notations of
this Dr. Shi are
in my grandfathers diary coming to their home to provide
medical care, my mother remembers him
and his son well, in fact she was
just
talking to me about Dr. Shi and his brothers and how their
father
died not long after coming to the
Stratford area.) My mother also
stated that Dr. Shi's daughter, Molly
was married to Governor David Boren,
but
I believe it is their son who was her father.
Submitted:
Linda
(Dyer) Craig Sources:
grandfathers diary, my mother's personal
recollections, census records and
cemetery records. |
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