Dr. Hartley Weems
1852-1921

Bio from Jo Ellen Robertson ---Dr. Hartley Weems was born on 21 Oct 1852 in Alabama. Birthplace could be Durant, Holmes County, MS. He was a farmer in the 1880 census in Carroll County, MS. He was the son of S. W. Weems and B. P. Harley Weems who were born in Alabama and Georgia respectively. He was the second of their eight children (4 living), and was reared in Mississippi and educated in the common schools. At the age of 18 he began clerking in a drug store, continuing in that capacity for four years. During that time he studied medicine privately, and afterwards attended lectures in a school of pharmacy in Chicago, Illinois. He afterwards attended the medical department of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee and graduated as an M.D. from that institution in 1881. He soon after came to Arkansas locating first in Coal Hill, Johnson County, where he practiced with fair success. He came to Rogers, Ar in 1883, and ranked among the intelligent and successful young physicians of the country. The family later moved to the Fort Smith area and is buried there. Obituaries of Benton County, Arkansas, 1921 Roger Democrat 12/22/21 Dr. Hartley Weems, who practiced medicine in Rogers more than thirty years ago, going from here to Van Buren and later moving to Ft. Smith, died in the late city Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Albert Bullock, at the age of 68 years. Mrs. Weems died about ten years ago. He is survived by one son, Tom Weems of Omaha, and three daughters, Mrs. Charles Futral and Mrs. Bullock of Ft. Smith and Mrs. Joe Hardin of Lavaca, Ark.