Doctors are divided into those who could ride and those who could
not!
Buying and keeping a good horse was expensive and riding long distances to see patients
was dangerous.
Name Residence Date registered Specialty
Alexander, R.M. Garland Co. 1884 physician
Alford, John E. Black Springs 1900 physician/surgeon
Arnold, J.H. Black Springs 1900 physician/surgeon
Baggs, John R. Sims 1889 physician
Bates, John C. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Bates, John R. Black Springs physician
Bates, S.C. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician
Barker, A. Hot Springs Co. 1883 physician
Barker, Abraham Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician
Bigelaw, H.A. Hot Springs 1889 physician
Birch, J.C. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician
Black, Marcus Montgomery Co May 31 1881 physician
Burns, J.N. Sims 1888 physician
Burton, Squire N. Cedar Point 1889 physician/surgeon
Bush, John W. Black Springs 1903 physician
Chitwood, Joel Crystal Springs May 31 1881 physician
Clingman, C.C. Clark Co. 1882 physician
Cole, John, H. Story 1898 physician
Collier, A.M. Ophir 1903 physician
Crook, Wayman C. Oden 1900 physician/surgeon
Crockett, John V. Oden 1923 physician/surgeon
Cubage, W.R. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician
Davis, W. S. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon
Dickinson, W.N. Black Springs 1885 physician
Emory, F.L. Valley, AR 1892 physician
Falleson, E.C. Washita 1895 physician
Flassada, Benjamin Black Springs 1901 physician
Flood, J.W. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician
Frevell, M.H. Theodore Mount Ida 1892 physician
Freeman, J.N. Washita 1895 physician
Gabbert, Jesse T. Gabbert 1899 physician
Gray, G.W. Black Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Greeson, William R. Cedar Point 1889 physician
Goodner, William B. Oden 1883 physician/surgeon
Hargrove, W.W. Oden 1892 physician
Herriott, J.W. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon
Hull, T.A. Mount Ida 1892 physician
Johnson, Benjamin Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician
Johnson, B.A. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Johnson, C.F. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician
Johnson, John Marzen 1892 physician
Jones, A. Caddo Gap Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Jones, H.T. Yell Co. May 31 1881 physician & minor surgery
Jones, Isaac J. Amity 1887 physician
Jones, W.A. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Kennedy, John E. Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician
Kennedy, L.S. Mount Ida 1901 physician
King, J.H. Black Springs 1884 physician
Knight, Jack B. Oden 1903 physician
Lankford, Charles H. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician
Logan, A.S. Caddo Gap May 31 1881 physician
Markham, W.N. Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician
Maxwell, Henry Silver City 1902 physician
Mayo, Joseph B. Walnut City 1882 physician/surgeon
McLean, John H. Caddo Gap 1902 physician
Meredith, H.D. Ophir 1896 physician
Milholen, J.T. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon
Miller, W.A. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician
Mogisek Montgomery Co. 1913 dentistry
Moore, R.H. Harold May 31 1881 physician
Neardy, N.T. Pinelance, AR 1888 physician
Owen, J.P. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician
Parchman, William L. Harold 1882 physician/surgeon
Partain, F. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician & minor surgery
Phillips, James Point Cedar 1891 physician
Pinkerton, J.F. Stappher 1899 physician
Pittman, H.T. Wiggs 1890 physician
Pool, Marcus V. Washita 1890 physician
Powell. G.R. Montgomery Co. 1913 pharmacist
Powell, J.D.M. Hickory Station 1890 physician
Protor, John M. Hot Springs 1903 physician
Roberts, C.S. Black Springs 1883 physician
Robert, R.C. Black Springs May 31 1881 physician
Roberts, W.D. Oden 1891 physician
Robbins, J.D. Manfred 1897 physician
Shaw, Angus D. Cedar Glades 1891 physician
Shaw, Joseph B. Buckville 1900 physician
Skaggs, G.E. Silver City Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Smith J.C. Marzen 1887 physician
Smith John C. Hopper 1888 physician
Smith, Moses Crystal Springs May 31 1881 physician
Stanlee, T.H. Amity 1887 physician
Stewart, John B. Luckey 1901 physician
Tackett, J.J. Mazarn 1893 physician Jefferson Johnson (J.J.) Tackett
Thompson, Lewis S. Harold 1883 physician
Wasson, H.L. Black Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Weaver, G.D. Valley, AR 1892 physician
Wilkinson, Lt. M. Crystal Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon
Wilkes, S.J. Bear 1897 physician/surgeon
Wilson, D.M. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician
Womack, Isham P. Montgomery Co. 1891 physician
Womar, W.W. physician
Wright, Edmund Montgomery Co. 1882 physician
Check Register at the Clerk's office, Montgomery Co. Courthouse for more details. Record of professional licenses shows title of examining board, date of examination, name of licensee and date license issued, Signature on file. Gives an idea when they came to the county except year 1881 when registration commenced. Register of Physicians and Surgeons 1881-1935 1 Vol. 80pp 14 x 8 x 2
State Medical Board of the Arkansas Medical Society Little Rock Ark.To whom it may concern: A sworn statement having been presented to this board that on or before May 17, 1903, M M Evans was legally qualified to practice medicine, therefore in accordance with section 6..................................this certificate is issued to him attesting the entry of his name upon the register of Accredited Physicians...............dated 18 Aug 1903
Doctors in the bigger towns generally earn more than those in rural areas.
Many doctors give up medicine or get other part time jobs because patients couldn't afford to pay.
Friday Sept. 25 1891 Mt. Ida, Arkansas
Dr J. D. Wingfield
Resident
Physician & Surgeon
All Calls attended promptly day or night
Office at the residence of Mrs. G.W. Golden, for the present.Dr. J.C. Bates
Resident, Physician & Surgeon
Silver City, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Female Disease A Specialty
Office at ResidenceThe Montgomery County Herald
Jun 8. 1894 Mt. Ida, Arkansas
Dr. A. Hutchinson a former practicing physician of Nashville, this state, has hung out his shingle at Caddo Gap, and hereafter will be a citizen of Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Herald
Vol. 2. No. 50 Mount Ida, Arkansas Thursday June 16 1927
Mr. J.C. McFadden
Physician & Surgeon
Calls answered day and night
Office in the Outler Building, Mount Ida, Ark.
John Ewing ALFORD (1871-1842) Buried in Murfreesboro Cemetery. Article in 'Centennial History of Arkansas', 1933, Dallas T. Herndon, Vol. 3, pgs 114-115.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, was born near Kirby, in Pike county, this state, May 22, 1871. His father, Dr. W.D. Alford, was born in Alabama and came to Arkansas with his parents when a small boy. Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike county and in the high school at Murfreesboro, after which he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Hempstead and Pike counties for four or five years, or until 1894. In that year he began studying medicine in the Barnes University of St. Louis, MS and later was graduated from the Gate City Medical College at Texarkana, Texas winning his M.D. degree in 1906. From the time when he began the study of medicine in 1894 he was engaged in practice in Pike, Montgomery and Clark counties, although he did not obtain his professional degree until 1906. His medical education was acquired through his own efforts, his earnings supplying him with the money necessary to meet his tuition and other expenses of his college course. In 1906 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery Co. AR where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk Co. AR. A little later he located at Caddo Gap, where he continued from 1909 until 1918, successfully practicing medicine there. In the latter year he came to Okolona where he has remained and here he is successfully and extensively engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. He is also serving as health officer of Okolona and during the World War he was a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps.Dr. J.J.J.C. BIRCH was killed at Mt. Ida May 22, 1883. His remains were sent to Illinois by his wife with the assistance of the Gross Mortuary of Hot Springs. Arkansas.
Montgomery County Heritage Vol. 1 page 303
The early courthouses were the scenes of much activity. Many legal battles were fought within their walls and at least one gun battle while Guilford Goodner, was clerk, an altercation arose between Jerry C. Witt and Doctor Birch. Witt felt Birch had slandered his name and warned him that he would not tolerate it. Doctor J.J.C. Birch continued his verbal attacks though and Witt caught up with him in the clerk's office. The doctor was shot and killed there among the dusty records but Mr Goodner's testimony cleared Witt in the proceeding court battle. Dr Birch killed by J. C. "Jerry" Witt at Mount Ida was acquitted by a jury. His son William P. then tried to avenge him unsuccessfully. Guilford Dudley Goodner was probably a cousin to Sarah Goodner who married William Peak Birch three years later in 1886.
From the Gross Mortuary Records, Hot Springs. May 22, 1883 Dr. J.J.C. Birch killed at Mt Ida. Remains sent to Illinois for burial by wife.
William Peak Birch s/o Dr J.J.C. Birch was born on 10 November 1855 in Clark Co., Illinois and married Sarah A. Goodner, in Oden, Montgomery Co., Arkansas. Montgomery County Representatives in State Legislature 1884-86. He died in LeFlore Co., OK. His father Dr. J.J.C. Birch of Oden bought land in Montgomery County, AR in 1882.Dr. William Riley CUBAGE was born May 10, 1825 in Buncombe Co., NC, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Cubbage. John and Elizabeth moved to Clar, IN where their four other children were born. In 1845, the family migrated to Ouachita Co., AR, where records indicate, their name changed from Cubbage to Cubage. William R. was granted a land patent in Ouachita Co, and he married Martha Caroline Dodd (b. c1835 TN), daughter of Capt. James and Martha Grayson Dodd. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1862 in Camden, AR, where he served on a hospital ward and as a field nurse out of Monroe, LA. After the Civil War, he attended medical school in KY and moved his family to Montgomery Co. and began practice with Dr. Alfred Jones of Caddo Gap and Mount Ida, AR. Dr. and Mrs. Cubage's children were Leander Cubage b. 1852; James Dodd Cubage b. March 10, 1855 (m. Melinda Ann Jones in May 1878, in Caddo Gap, AR, dau. of Dr. Alfred Jones); William Riley Cubage, Jr. b. 1857; John B. Cubage b. 1859; Emma D. Cubage, b. 1861; Julia J. Cubage b. 1863; Theodore Edward Cubage b. 1867(m. Frazar Estep of Corpus Christi, TX), Martha E. Cubage b. April 1870; and Cora Cubage b. October 1873 (m. Willus Claude Lee Dec 26, 1890 in Mount Ida, AR, son of Joel and Malissa Ann Lindsey Lee of Drew Co., AR). Dr. Cubage was shot to death on main street of Mount Ida, AR on July 12, 1881, by a Mr. Burnett, husband of one of Dr. Cubage's patients. Information courtesy of Geneva Cole. Geneva has the Cubbage family history back to 1600's, if anyone is interested. Posted 2 Dec. 1999.
John W. Burnett was a native of N.C. He married Louise Eliza "Lou" Jackson near Landrum S.C. in 1870. She was a daughter of Andrew and Catherine Gray Jackson. "Lou" and her parents are all buried at Mount Ida, Arkansas. John Burnett, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, was an educator. He taught Latin and Calculus.
What tragedy? After the tragedy he was tried and sentenced to the State Prison which was in Little Rock at the time. He served a few months and then was pardoned. At the time of the pardon he had contracted pneumonia and expired in the prison. That was in a severe winter. He was buried "behind walls" and later the State Capitol Building was built there and, as I have been told, the graves were not disturbed.
He left his widow and two children, Louis Napoleon b. 1872 and Lillian Mable. Louis also taught and became an attorney. He married Louisa "Lura" Chapmond of Story. She had married Eugene Calton Tollerson, M.D., in 1896 and he died in 1896. They made their home in Mena where he practiced Law. He died in the early 1940s. Lillian married James W. Wacaster who taught and was postmaster in the early 1900s. Louise is buried in the Mt. Ida Cemetery. Lillian and Jim are buried in Memorial Gardens near Hot Springs. Elmer Burnett Wacaster (1897-1983) was the eldest son of Lillian and Jim.In addition to Louis Napoleon (called Poley) and Lillian there was another daughter, Etta. She married Dr. Waymon Crook. He died in 1928, FAG ID 66157670. The had one daughter and Etta died in childbirth [Maggie Etta Burnett Crook (1876 -1898) is buried at Mount Ida, AR FAG ID 38555313]. The daughter, also called Etta, was raised to the age of four by Lillian and Jim Wacaster. Her father, W.C. Crook remarried to Edna Carr, in 1901 and took back his daughter.
In looking through the Census of Montgomery Co., 1900 Louis N. Burnett, Waymon Crook and Thomas C. Wacaster (a brother to James W. Wacaster) were enumerators. Both Burnett and Wacaster had more legible penmanship than DOCTOR Crook.
For more information on the Jackson family see the Jackson articles in "Montgomery County: Our Heritage" written by Mary D. Jackson and Brent Holcomb's "Jackson of North Pacolet". Information courtesy of Virginia Wacaster Curnow. Posted 21 August 2001.
Dr. George W. Gray (1825-1908)
Born 6 March 1825, Clarke, Georgia to George and Holly Gray nee Carter who were married in Oglethorpe Co., George, Dec. 9, 1818. The family migrated to Tishomingo, Mississippi pre 1850. Two of George and Holly's seven sons came to Arkansas. Dr George Gray and Robert Gray. Robert served in the Confederate Army. Robert first settled in Clark Co., AR and came to Montgomery Co. AR in 1870 and settled around Caddo Gap. Reference: Montgomery County Our Heritage page 783
George Washington GRAY, physician, farmer, had 22 children born to three successive wives. In 1850 he was living in Jackson Co., Jackson, Georgia.
He married Mary C. Freeman, age 15, 1st June, 1859 in Montgomery Co. AR.
G.W. Gray was a charter member of the New Hope #42 Masonic Lodge, at Gap Mill (old Centreville), Montgomery Co., AR in 1867.
In 1873, 18th March, George W. Gray, aged 48, married Rebecca Ann GORE, aged 29.
George was served as the Montgomery County Clerk (1872 -1874).
George W. Gray died 12 Nov. 1908, Gorman, Eastland, TX. He is buried in the Gorman Cemetery beside is wife Rebekah (April 11-1849 -Jan. 16 1918)
A History of Texas and Texans Chicago: American Historical Society, 1916
In Montgomery County, Arkansas, Dr George Gray wedded Miss Melissa Freeman, d/o one of the pioneer physicians of that county, and she died when her youngest child, Doctor James D. Gray, was an infant. He was born near Caddo Gap 7th March 1871 and in 1884 accompanied his parents to Texas. His father was Dr George W. Gray, a native of Virginia, who attended the city of Atlanta Medical School, practiced in Montgomery Co. AR, wedded his second wife Rachel Gore, and he died at Gorman, Comanche County, TX in 1908. Son, Dr James D. Gray, now of Shiner, Lavaca County, TX. Has a older brother Dr Joseph Gray, in practice at Comanche, TX.
Gap TWP, Montgomery County AR 1870 Census. Dw 251 Family 270
Gray, G. W. 45 M W Physician (George W ) 150 585 Georgia
Gray, Mary C. 27 F W Keeping House (Freeman) Alabama
Gray, Sarah J. 14 F W Attended school Mississippi
Gray, Andrew J. 7 M W Attended school cannot write Arkansas
Gray, Missouri 5 F W Arkansas
Gray, Mary A. 9 F W Arkansas
Gray, Charles J. 3 M W Arkansas
Gray, Marth M. 1 F W Arkansas
William Wesley HARGROVE (1844-1921) lived in Montgomery County 1861-1900's. He was a physician, farmer and minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr William Wesley Hargrove a practicing physician and farmer of Oden, Ark., was born in Tippah County, Miss., in 1844, to James Washington and Martha Ann (Poole) Hargrove. The family came to Montgomery Co. in 1861. James SR. died in Montgomery Co. in 1863. W.W. enlisted in Witherspoon's Battalion in 1862. Moved to Cooper, TX about 1900. Died Jan. 1921.
His son, James Henry Hargrove, was born in 1866 in Oden. He married Isabelle brewer in 1887. Their children were Robert lee, William Franklin, James Preston, Ivey Ethel, Leonard Oren and Henry Delbert.
Great Grandson is Stanley McCartney, M.D. of Laguna Niguel, CA.
Austin Stevens LOGAN was born November 21, 1849 in Clark County, Arkansas, the son of Jacob and Mary Logan. The Logan family lived in South Fork Township of Clark county, and the William Stevenson Sloan family lived near by. Julia Missouri Sloan was born October 28, 1853 in Clark County. Austin and Julia married about 1872, but a marriage record has not been located. They were parents of twelve children, two died in infancy. Julia Sloan Logan died January 24, 1923 and Dr. Logan died June 24, 1926. They are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Some of their children came back to Clark County in their later years and died there.
Information courtesy of Wanda Sloan Karnes. Contact Wanda if you you would like information on the Logan and Sloan families or have further information. The Sloan family has been traced back to the immigrant from Ireland, who came to America about 1747. Posted Aug. 11 1999
Dr Andrew Jarrett "Jart" POOL b. Feb. 5 1852 in Dalton, GA to Dr. Marcus Lafayette Pool. Jart first settled in the Washita area. Marcus Velpeau Pool (1857-1925), a widow with five children came out from Georgia in the spring of 1891 to be near his older brother Jart. Marcus had married while in medical school in Atlanta. Marcus m3 Julia Williamson Freeman and had six more children. The family lived at Buckville where he actively practiced medicine. Jart m 2 Sarah Ann Leonard in 1878 and the family was living near Oden in 1885. Eight children including daughters Clover, Molly, and Carrie (Elizabeth Caroline) and son C. Vell. Carrie married Dr. C.F. Johnson in 1900. Dr Pool had a saddle horse named Grey Buck and a buggy horse which died by a lightening strike one night. Dr Jart Pool died Nov. 30 1910 at Mena at age 58 Pinecrest Cemetery in Mena. Ref: "They Can't Go Home"
Dr Callie F. JOHNSON (1852-1935) b. in Illinois moved Allene, AR when he was a young man and engaged in farming. He wanted a profession so attended a small medical school in central Arkansas and was apprenticed to Dr. A. J. Pool, Mt Ida as was the custom of that time. A few years later Dr Johnson and Dr Pool moved to Mena and established a practice in the 1890s about the time the KCS railroad line was built. In 1900 Dr Johnson married Elizabeth Pool and moved to Hatfield establishing a practice. His practiced included south east OK and many Indian families. The nearest hospitals were in Ft. Smith and Texarkana. The Polk Co. Historical Society has bios of Dr's Pool and Johnson.
Dr J.D. ROBBINS was killed in 1941 after almost 40 years in the medical field. He was shot in the head while trying to apprehend a horse thief. He was 68.
Dr. J.D. STEELY provided medical care for the residents of Washita, Sims, Mt. Ida and Story from 1903 to 1937.
Dr. John D. Steely, born March 1862 in Tennessee. His father, Lewis Henry Steely, born 1835 Kentucky, a miller, was living in Polk Twp (Oden area) with Dr Steely and family, by the 1900 census. John married Laura Piland on 14 August 1887 in Ozark, Christian Co., MO. They had nine children including William Roy Steely born 8 May 1889 in Benton Co., AR.. He married a second time. He was 52 and she was 17. Married Tennie Scrimpshire on 17 April 1914 in Montgomery Co., AR. They had three children. Dr. Steely practiced medicine in Arkansas from 1903 until his death in 1937.
Ruby Fryar, 79, died Thursday, June 29, 1995 at St. Joseph's in Hot Springs. She was born July 26, 1915 in Washita, to Dr. John D. Steely and Tennie Scrimshire Steely. She was united in marriage on September 29, 1946 in Oden to Leonard Fryar. Dr. Steely practiced medicine in Arkansas from 1903 until his death in 1937. Argus Steely, b. 1917, died 26 March 1942 in a Japanese POW camp during WWII was a brother to Ruby. Tennie Scrimpshire Steely/Pierce married (1) Dr. John D. Steely on 17 April 1914 in Montgomery Co., AR. After Dr. Steely died in 1937, she married (2) Ed Pierce.
PFC Argus Steely
ID: 6297803
Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Hometown: Montgomery County, AR
Status: Died Non Battle
Oden Cemetery.
Pierce Tennie Steely Oct 22 1896 - Jan 5 1980
Steely Dr. J.D. May 22 1862 - Sep 12 1937 Gone but not forgotten Mason emblem
Steely Elmira Mar 28 1866 - Feb 13 1907
John Byron Stueart, he traveled to see patients as far as Sulpher Springs and Hopper.
Dr John Byron Stueart (27 Nov, 1878 - 29 Feb 1960)
Blue eyes, brown hair. Stout but short.
Died Norman, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Buried: Black Springs Cemetery
Relative" Mrs Dora Stueart of Womble, Montgomery County, Ark.
