Blount County AlArchives Biographies.....Donehoo, F. G. December 5 1855 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. F. G. DONEHOO, a rising physician of Blount county, was born in Georgia,
on December 5, 1855, son of A. C. and Nancy M. (Brown) Donehoo - both natives of
that state. The father was a soldier in the late war in company L, of Phillips'
legion. He practiced dentistry for several years before the war, but after the
war, having lost all, engaged in farming. He was a son of B. W. and Sarah
(Scales) Donehoo, natives of Georgia. The great-grandfather was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America and married
Mrs. Key, in North Carolina. After the Reovlution he settled in Laurens county,
S. C., where the great-grandfather grew to manhood, when he settled in Georgia,
and lived to the advanced age of one hundred and three years, and the
great-grandmother, on the mother's side, to one hundred and eleven years of age.
Mrs. Donehoo, the mother of the doctor, was a daughter of Hiram and Sarah Brown,
both natives of Georgia, and the former an eminent and leading physician of
Elbert county, Ga. The grandmother on the mother's side descended from an old
Virginia family and is a relative of ex-Governor Scales of North Carolina. F. G.
Donehoo was raised on the farm until ten years of age, when his father moved to
Marietta, Ga., where the doctor grew to manhood. He had but few adavntages for
schooling; but in 1878, began teaching school and reading medicine. Dr. Gilbert
Tenant of Marietta was his preceptor, and in 1880, he entered the Augusta (Ga.)
Medical college, attended one session, and then went to Atlanta, Ga., and
attended the Southern Medical college for one session, and in the spring of 1881
he graduated with honors and came to Alabama and located at Murphree's Valley in
Blount county, where he has now a large and lucrative practice, and is engaged
extensively in farming. In 1885, he married Miss Emma Hyatt, daughter of David
and Nancy Hyatt. They have one child, Ethel O. The mother was born and reared in
Alabama. The doctor and wife are members to the Baptist church, and he is a
member of the Masonic order, I. O. O. F., and K. of P. He is a democrat in
politics and has the confidence of all who know him.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 503-504

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