Wilcox-Worth-Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....Royal, Alfred Richard  M.D. March 24, 1899
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Wilcox County., Georgia Newspaper Clippings  -  Volume I., 1898-1903
WILCOX COUNTY,GEORGIA,
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
    Volume I
   1898 - 1903
By: Tad Evans
See page 69 ( For Date )
Thursday, March 30, 1899
See page 70 ( For Obituary )
          DEATH OF DR. A. R. ROYAL
   Abbeville was shocked from center to circumference on last Friday afternoon 
about 2 o’clock when the news spread over the town, as if by electricity, that 
Dr. Royal had dropped dead at the City Drug Store.  Distress and confusion, at 
once, prevailed over the entire community.
   He had not been feeling well for a day or two, and complained of a pain 
about the heart, and of a pain in the head, which impaired his hearing some.  
He did not succumb to these troubles however and no one thought much about 
them.  He has some friends with him for dinner that day, and while he did not 
eat heartily, he chatted pleasantly, and had not returned to his office but a 
short time, and while sitting in conversation with Mr. John Ewing, fell 
suddenly over on him and expired in a few minutes.  Doctors Googe and Crawford 
were immediately summoned and upon an examination pronounced it heart failure.
   Dr. Royal was born and reared in Worth County and was forty-two years old.  
He obtained a fairly good education and commenced the study of medicine when 
quite a young man, and graduated at the Atlanta Medical College, and after 
practicing a few years attended a medical College in New York and obtained a 
diploma there.  He practiced for several years in Irwin County, at Crisp, from 
which place he moved to Abbeville twelve years ago.  Aside from being a 
skillful physician he was a great factor in the building of the town,  There 
is scarcely an enterprise in the town but that he was in some way instrumental 
in its promotion.
   His big heart, his magnanimous disposition, his honesty and integrity and 
his ability won for him a large practice and friends innumerable.  He was 
truly a physician after the “Good Samaritan” order.  He would buy medicine for 
the poor, and in many instances he was known to visit the sick carrying in one 
hand something for them to eat.
   Dr. Royal seemed to be conscious for many months of his approaching death, 
and was prepared for it.  He was president of the Epworth League at the time 
of his death, and manifested great interest in Christian wor.
   The Masons took in charge the burial and on Saturday evening laid him to 
rest by the side of his second wife in Stubbs Cemetery.  He leaves a wife and 
several children.

Compiler Notes:  From the Stubbs Cemetery, Abbeville, Wilcox County., Georgia 
the following:
Alfred Richard Royal, M.D., June 11, 1851-Mar. 24, 1899
Anna Belle. Wife of Dr. A.R. Royal d. Nov.6, 1892, age 27 yrs.
Martha Virginia Reid Royal, Dec. 1, 1871-Oct. 6, 1952
Five graves unmarked near Martha Virginia Reid Royal. 


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