William Lee Litton, M. D., Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** William Lee Litton, M. D. A physician of very wide and unusual experience, Doctor Litton is now located at Flora in Natchitoches Parish, where he is physician in charge of the medical and surgical practice for the Weaver Lumber Company. He is a graduate of the Memphis Hospital Medical College with the class of 1908, and since then has been engaged in a large professional practice and has acquired many business interests in Louisiana. He was born at Pleasant Hill in Saline Parish, June 27, l882, son of John and Sarah (Fox) Litton. His parents were natives of the same parish. His father was a son of Hiram Litton, a Confederate soldier for four years and a participant in the battle of Mansfield. John Litton devoted his life to farming, was a member of the Parish School board, and was held in high esteem in his home community. His farm was six miles Southwest of Pleasant Hill. He was active in the Baptist Church and an enthusiastic democrat. John Litton died in 1923, at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife passed in 1921, aged sixty-seven. They had a large family of sons and daughters. Dr. William L. is the oldest of the oldest of the sons. His brother, Dr. J. D. Litton, was practicing medicine at Noble when he was shot and killed at the age of thirty-two. The son, Oscar, is a timber man at Monroe, Louisiana; Clifton is a merchant at Pleasant Hill; Steve is chief deputy in the sheriff's office at Many. The daughter, Amanda is the wife of C. C. Craig, living on the old homestead, and Hattie is the wife of Bob Scarborough, now connected with the Smackover oil fields in Arkansas. William Lee Litton learned as a youth to depend upon himself for his higher education and advancement in the world. He worked with his father on the farm, and from the proceeds of those labors made most of his expenses while in school. He attended the Louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston, Mount Lebanon College near Gibsland and subsequently entered the Memphis Hospital Medical College, where he was graduated in 1908. He did post-graduate work in Tulane University at New Orleans in 1910, and in the New 0rleans Polyclinic in 1913. From 1908 to 1910 Doctor Litton practiced at Belmont in Sabine Parish, was located at Robeline from 1910 to 1914, then returned to Belmont, remaining there until 1917. When the World war came on he attended the Medical Officer's Training School at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and received his honorable discharge in December, 1918. During 1919-20 he practiced at Pleasant Hilt, was then in the Haynesville oil field until 1922, and since then has found a pleasant and profitable round of professional duties at Flora in Natchitoches Parish. Doctor Litton married Miss Leah Born, daughter of D. J. Born, of Sabine Parish. They have three children: Evelyn, born in 1910; Warnena, born in 1917, while Lurine died February 2, 1921, at the age of fourteen. Doctor and Mrs. Litton are members of the Baptist Church, she teaching a class in Sunday School. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Pleasant Hill, Royal Arch Chapter at Robeline, the Scottish Rite Consistory at Shreveport; El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Shreveport, and the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Pleasant Hill. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 367, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.