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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

   JOSEPH BEVENS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, came to Gadsden in the practice
of his profession January, 1852, and from here, in January, 1863, entered the
Confederate service as surgeon of the Thirty-first Alabama Regiment. This
regiment was with General Pemberton at Vicksburg, and at the surrender of that
place, the Doctor was paroled. In September following, he rejoined his command,
and was with it until March, 1865, when he resigned and returned to Gadsden.
Here he has since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine, and is at
this writing (1888) in the enjoyment of a handsome competency, the result of his
success as a doctor of medicine. He joined the State Medical Association in
1878; is now the president of the County Association, and is recognized by the
profession generally as a physician of fine attainments. In addition to his
practice he carries on an extensive drug store.

  Doctor Bevens was married in July, 1842, to Miss Temperance Gandy, daughter of
Edward Gandy, of Gandy's Cove, Morgan County, Ala., and has had born to him six
children, to-wit: Mary E. (Mrs. Wright), John W., James M. (physician), Jannie
(Mrs Hughes), Edward G., M. D., of Gadsden; Idella (Mrs. Young). The mother of
these children died in 1870, and in 1873 the Doctor married Mrs. Nancy Petty,
nee Sibly. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, and the Doctor has
been a Mason since 1853. He is at this writing a member of the Board of Health
and chairman of the Board of Censors of the county.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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