RANDOLPH CO, AR - DR. WILLIAM THOMAS SWINDLE - Bio

Submitted by: Dr. Cloyce E. Odom ceodom@urs2.net

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Dr. William Thomas Swindle

Submission: Dr. William Thomas Swindle came to the Randolph County 
area to practice Medicine and to raise his family. He settled in the 
Maynard area and was a fellow practitioner with Dr. J.W. Brown, Dr. 
C.E. Stuttle, Dr. H.L. Throgmorton, Dr. H.L. Richardson and other fine 
well know men in the County. Dr. Swindle was born  and was raised in 
Benton County, TN. in 1854 and was living there when he decided to get 
a Medical Degree. He was married there to Vandora Hatley, also born in 
Benton County. They had one child when they came to Arkansas. The 
Swindle family was blessed with 8 living children,Larken Leonard (died 
at age 30.) Arcus, Horace, Belle, Nancy, Dovie, Thurman and Tula. All 
of these children married and lived and raised their family in the 
Randolph County area except Thurman and Belle. There are many 
grandchildren and great grandchildren from this family, of which I am 
one. Nancy Elizabeth married Martin Odom and my Father, Buford, was 
their second child. Dr. Swindle, his Father, William Anderson Swindle, 
and his wife, Vandora (Dora), are  buried in Siloam cemetery, near 
Maynard. W. Anderson Swindle was also born in Benton County, TN. but 
his parents, Thomas and Miriam Swindle, were born in North Carolina, 
as were many of our ancestors. They were all members of the Methodist 
Church. Dr. Swindle was a great country Doctor. He spent 58 years of 
his life ministering to the sick around Randolph County, AR. and 
Ripley County, MO. He delivered a large majority of babies born in the 
area of the time. He, in his younger days, traveled to a sick person, 
either by walking or by horseback, Medical Bag tied to the saddle. In 
his later days, he traveled in a buggy to treat the sick. He was 
always ready to go. He and his son Horace, owned and operated a 
Pharmacy in Maynard, when Maynard was a very lively Town. There are 
many descendants of this family, still living in Randolph County and 
Greene County today. Most everyone here by the name of Swindle is 
related to Dr. W.T..  A book, 'The Swinherders', about this family was 
written by Jena F. Hopwood, a granddaughter, @1987, and copies are 
still available today. 

Submitted by Dr. Cloyce E. Odom

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