Biography of D C Joyner, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

Dr. D. C. Joyner. The people of Mississippi, as well as surrounding
counties, are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, and for
many years Dr. Joyner has been successfully occupied in the
prosecution of his chosen profession. During that time his career as a
practitioner and thorough student of medicine has won for him no less
a reputation than have his personal characteristics as a citizen and
neighbor. He was born in Stewart County, Tenn. (Dover), in 1838, and
was reared in Smithland, Livingston County, Ky. He was educated at
Bethlehem, and in the Presbyterian Academy, located at Salem,
Crittenden County. In 1857 he commenced the study of medicine in the
office of Prof. F. L. Sim, of Golconda, Ill., where he studied for two
years, and then entered the Louisville University, from which
institution he graduated in 1861. Later he came to Mississippi County,
commenced practicing on Frenchman's Bayou, when there were but few
planters, and soon built up a very lucrative practice. Not satisfied
merely with his profession, the Doctor has engaged in other pursuits,
and having built a large store-room, sold goods for about fifteen
years. He sold out his stock of goods in 1888 to W. H. Pullen & Co.,
to whom he rents the building, and the Doctor now has a complete stock
of drugs in a building which he has erected just across the way, and
where he now keeps a full line of all the requisites necessary for a
first-class store. He has also been interested in planting cotton,
having owned a plantation of 240 acres, of which he put a considerable
share under cultivation, but this he has recently sold. The Doctor
agrees with other prominent medical men, that Arkansas is as healthy
as any other Southern State, and the people are as exempt from
disease, if they use the same care, as in other States. Especially
does this apply to those who keep all mud holes and stagnant pools
filled up or drained off. Dr. Joyner was a Whig in his political
preference before the war, and says he is the same now, but since
coming south he has allied himself with the Democratic party. During
the war he enlisted in the Twenty-third Arkansas, and served most of
the time in the State, acting at one time as courier to some of
Price's commanders. His marriage with Miss Medora Ward, daughter of
Capt. L. Ward, occurred in Memphis, and soon afterward they moved to
Frenchman's Bayou, where they have lived ever since, with the
exception of about six months, when they resided in Arkansas County,
near Dewitt. This union has been blessed by six children: Leon, at
home and a cripple from birth; DeWitt C., at home; Effie L., Clide V.,
Constance (Birdie), and Ruth Kerr, an infant. The Doctor is a member
of the K. of P., of Progress Lodge, Memphis, Tenn., and is also a
member of McGavock Lodge No. 2754, K. of H. Mrs. Joyner is a member of
the Methodist Church.