Biography of R C Cavitt, Greene Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 128

Dr. R. C. Cavitt. One of the most familiar and welcomed faces in the home of
the sick and afflicted of Greene County, is that of Dr. Cavitt, who administers to
the physical wants of his fellowman, in a highly satisfactory and successful manner,
as his many patients, now living, can testify. The Doctor was born in Henry County,
Tenn., but was reared in Obion County, of the same State, where he lived with his
father on a farm. At a very early age he commenced learning the blacksmith trade
which he completed, and, although he has not worked at his trade for over nineteen
years, still thinks that his hand has not lost its cunning, and that he can do as
good a piece of work in that line as he ever could. At the age of twenty-seven he
commenced the study of medicine with his brother, B. H. Cavitt, then of Obion County,
Tenn., and graduated at the expiration of two and a half-years' study at the
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. He then moved to Greene County, Ark.,
locating near Tilmanville, two miles west of Marmaduke (then not in existence), and
here the Doctor, after twelve years of labor, has built up an enviable practice.
After coming to this State he was married to Miss N. E. Jones, a native of Clay
County, Ark., and the daughter of John Jones, who came from Tennessee about 1830. To
this marital relation were born two children: Vera Ethel and Iler Myrtle. Dr. Cavitt
has about 120 acres of land in cultivation where he lives, and which he has had
improved to such an extent that it is one of the finest farms in the county. The
Doctor says he intends it to be the best in the county within a year or two at the
most. He has always, since living here, been dealing in cotton, and by care, and by
closely watching the market, has managed to benefit himself very much in that line.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Tilmanville, is also a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and in each has filled many of the chairs, holding one position
at the present time. He and Mrs. Cavitt are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, near Tilmanville.