From "Memorial Record of Alabama" Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)"J. W. DREWRY, M. D. - The subject of this sketch, the oldest practicing physician in Eufaula, and one of the best known medical men of southern Alabama . .began his professional studies in 1847 under the able management and instruction of Dr. White, of Milledgeville, with whom he remained one year, and then entered, the Medical college of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in the class of 1849. He remained in Philadelphia for some time after receiving his degree, and in the fall of 1850 opened an office at Americus, Ga., where he practiced one year, thence moved to Barbour County, Ala., locating at Spring Hill, where on account of failing health he abandoned the profession for a time, and engaged in the more congenial pursuit of agriculture. . .until 1866, at which time, seeking a wider field for the exercise of his professional ability, he removed to Eufaula, where, with the exception of a brief period of service in the hospital at Atlanta during the war, he has since practiced his profession with a success . . In 1851, in Jones County, Ga., he was united in marriage to Miss A. E. Ethridge, who has borne him five children . . the doctor's father was John Drewry, a native of Virginia, who, when a young man, moved to Hancock County, Ga., where he first followed the tailor's trade, and later engaged in planting. After his marriage with Elizabeth Wallace, he moved to the county of Putnam, thence to Hancock County, and finally to Alabama in 1857, settling in Barbour County, where he died in 1857. . "
∼Aged 57 Years
∼Aged 57 Years
From "Memorial Record of Alabama" Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)"J. W. DREWRY, M. D. - The subject of this sketch, the oldest practicing physician in Eufaula, and one of the best known medical men of southern Alabama . .began his professional studies in 1847 under the able management and instruction of Dr. White, of Milledgeville, with whom he remained one year, and then entered, the Medical college of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in the class of 1849. He remained in Philadelphia for some time after receiving his degree, and in the fall of 1850 opened an office at Americus, Ga., where he practiced one year, thence moved to Barbour County, Ala., locating at Spring Hill, where on account of failing health he abandoned the profession for a time, and engaged in the more congenial pursuit of agriculture. . .until 1866, at which time, seeking a wider field for the exercise of his professional ability, he removed to Eufaula, where, with the exception of a brief period of service in the hospital at Atlanta during the war, he has since practiced his profession with a success . . In 1851, in Jones County, Ga., he was united in marriage to Miss A. E. Ethridge, who has borne him five children . . the doctor's father was John Drewry, a native of Virginia, who, when a young man, moved to Hancock County, Ga., where he first followed the tailor's trade, and later engaged in planting. After his marriage with Elizabeth Wallace, he moved to the county of Putnam, thence to Hancock County, and finally to Alabama in 1857, settling in Barbour County, where he died in 1857. . "
∼Aged 57 Years
∼Aged 57 Years
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son of John and Elizabeth
Gravesite Details
Bro. James A. was in CSA 45th AL Co. C
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