Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Westmoreland, Theophilus 1834 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    THEOPHILUS WESTMORELAND. M. D., Athens, was born in Giles County. Tenn.,
November 21, 1834, and was educated primarily at Pulaski, graduating at
Nashville, in 1855, as a Doctor of Medicine. He began practice first, and at
once after leaving college, in Giles County, subsequently locating at Pulaski
for a few years, and came into Athens in 1879. In 1880 he established a drug
store in connection with his practice.

    In the summer of l861 Dr. Westmoreland went into the army as Surgeon of the
Fifty-third Tennessee Infantry, and afterwards was made Chief Surgeon of General
Quarles' brigade, in which position he remained to the close of the war. He was
captured at Fort Donelson, and when the Federals were removing the sick, he and
two other physicians got permission to take a trip up the river, and, not being
under any parole, made their escape.

    The Doctor was in the Western Army and on duty at the battle of Port Hudson,
Dalton, and many other places during the war, and finally at the last conflict
of arms, Bentonville, N. C.

    Aside from his profession and drug business he is largely interested in
agriculture. He takes no interest in politics particularly, is no office-seeker,
though a reliable Democrat, and has served the town one term as Mayor.

    He was married in 1862 at Gilbertsborough, this county, to a daughter of
Louis Nelson, an old citizen, merchant and planter of that place. Mrs.
Westmoreland died in 1877, leaving two daughters and a son. One of the
daughters, an accomplished young lady of seventeen years, died in 1884. The
other is Mrs. Vandegrift of Athens. The Doctor's second marriage occurred at
Athens, where he wedded Miss May F. Lane, daughter of Judge George W. Lane, of
Huntsville, Julv 29, 1879. [George W. Lane was some years Judge of the Circuit
Court, and was appointed by Buchanan United States District Judge, and held the
office over, under Mr. Lincoln.—ED.] By his last marriage Dr. Westmoreland has
two children, Frank Grant and Pattie Lane.

    The Doctor stands high in his profession, is a member of the various medical
societies, and is one of Athens' most popular citizens.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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