Dr. John Wesley Boatner, MD, was the son of John Lou Boatner born in South Carolina and Rebecca Ellen Boatner born in South Carolina. He was born in Mississippi, but came to Texas likely by the early 1870s and practiced medicine in Smithfield in eastern Tarrant County area initially. He moved to Lewisville, Collin County, Texas early in the 1880s to continue his practice of medicine. He was a Confederate Civil War veteran and was active in their meetings and reunions in the North Texas area as part of the Mississippi contingent based on newspaper accounts , but records to substantiate this has not been located. He may have been a member of a local Mississippi militia. John and his wife were the parents of at least five children. Only three of the children survived him when he died in 1904 before his 59th birthday. Dr. Boatner remarried after the death of his wife in Collin County, Texas. His new wife was a nurse, but the marriage apparently did not last until his death. She may have been active in raising the minor children. In 1900 he was living in Mississippi with his youngest daughter, Hortense and his brother, and his second wife was working in the Terrell State home in Terrell, Texas. His tombstone, the largest of the four in the family plot, bears a trade mark of " W.Whyburns-Lewisville indicating it came from there. The tombstone, erected by his three living children after his death, is very worn and faded. There is scripture on one side of the Marker. Dr. Boatner returned to Mississippi by the 1900 census and was living with his brother and mother in Union County, Mississippi. It is unknown at this time whether he died there and his body was returned to Texas to be buried with his wife and children or he returned to Texas before his death.
Dr. John Wesley Boatner, MD, was the son of John Lou Boatner born in South Carolina and Rebecca Ellen Boatner born in South Carolina. He was born in Mississippi, but came to Texas likely by the early 1870s and practiced medicine in Smithfield in eastern Tarrant County area initially. He moved to Lewisville, Collin County, Texas early in the 1880s to continue his practice of medicine. He was a Confederate Civil War veteran and was active in their meetings and reunions in the North Texas area as part of the Mississippi contingent based on newspaper accounts , but records to substantiate this has not been located. He may have been a member of a local Mississippi militia. John and his wife were the parents of at least five children. Only three of the children survived him when he died in 1904 before his 59th birthday. Dr. Boatner remarried after the death of his wife in Collin County, Texas. His new wife was a nurse, but the marriage apparently did not last until his death. She may have been active in raising the minor children. In 1900 he was living in Mississippi with his youngest daughter, Hortense and his brother, and his second wife was working in the Terrell State home in Terrell, Texas. His tombstone, the largest of the four in the family plot, bears a trade mark of " W.Whyburns-Lewisville indicating it came from there. The tombstone, erected by his three living children after his death, is very worn and faded. There is scripture on one side of the Marker. Dr. Boatner returned to Mississippi by the 1900 census and was living with his brother and mother in Union County, Mississippi. It is unknown at this time whether he died there and his body was returned to Texas to be buried with his wife and children or he returned to Texas before his death.
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