Biography: - Joseph Edward Wall, M.D. Sabine Parish, Louisiana;



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Source:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana

The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890

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           Joseph Edward Wall, M. D.  The name of

         Wall is one of the most influential in Logansport,

         and one of the most respected in this community,

         for he has not only proven himself honorable, hon-

         est and upright in every respect but he has proved

         himself a physician of far more than average merit.

         He was born in Madison County, Ala., July 21,

         1831, to James A. and Rebecca (Jeffries) Wall, both

         of whom were Virginians, but at an early day be-

         came residents of Alabama, in which State they

         made their home until their respective deaths. The

         father was a graduate of William and Mary's Col-

         lege, and when a young man studied law, but aban-

         doned this calling for farm work, which he consid-

         ered would be a more congenial occupation. He was

         a member of the Alabama Legislature for several

         terms, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was

         in the battles of Horse Shoe Bend and New Or

         leans.  He died on the 27th of July, and had he

         lived until the 10th of December he would have

         been ninety-four years of age. He had never eaten

         pork in any form, never drank coffee or tea, never

         drank whisky, and did not use tobacco in any

         form.  The now famous Wall Street, New York,

         was named in honor of one of his ancestors, an

         Englishman and a rich banker, being one of the

         first men to open a bank on that street. The fam-

         ily became well known in the history of Virginia.

         The mother of the subject of this sketch was

         very old at the time of her death and both she

         and her husband have been members of the

         Methodist Episcopal Church for many years,

         former being a class-leader in the same for some

         sixty years. He was a Democrat.  To them a fam-

         ily of fourteen children was born-ten sons and

         four daughters-only four of the family being now

         alive: Dr. Conrad (a physician of Greenville, Ala.),

         Dr. A. S. (a physician of Carthage, Tex.),  Mrs.

         E.  J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she

         being now a resident of Lowndes County, Ala.),

         and Dr. Joseph Edward Wall, who received his

         early scholastic training in McAlpine College, Nix-

         burg, Ala.  He commenced the study of medicine

         in 1850 with William R. Davie, M. D., as his pre-

         ceptor, and three years later began attending lect-

         ures at Nashville, Tenn., but in 1854 graduated

         from a medical university of Alabama.  He at once

         commenced practicing in Coosa County of that

         state, but in 1861 became captain of Company D,

         Sixth Alalbama, but was afterward transferred to the

         medical department; was regimental surgeon of the

         Twenty-eighth Tennessee Cavalry, to which posi-

         tion he was assigned during the seven days' fight

         at Richmond.  He was in the two battles of Ma-

         nassas, was also a tGettysburg, taking part in many

         other important engagements.  With the excep-

         tion of the time he had the small-pox he was not

         sick while in the service and was never wounded,

         but had a number of horses shot from under him.

         No braver soldier ever trod the crimson turf of a

         Virginia battle-field, and although his experience

         was very rough he bravely bore his share of the

         dangers, hardships and privations of war. During

         this time he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, be-

         sides other property, and after the close of the war

         he came to Carthage, Tex., locating soon after

         in Logan sport, where he has made his home the

         greater part of the time since.  He has a very ex-

         tensive practice, but is also interested in planting

         and is the owner of a fine tract of timber land in

         Sabine Parish.  While a resident of Alabama he

         was superintendent of the schools of Coosa County,

         and at all times has been deeply interested in the

         cause of education.  In 1852 he was married to

         Miss Fannie Cox, who died in Sabine Parish, La.,

         in 1884, having borne a family of ten children, six

         of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John

         (a farmer of Indian Territory), Augustus (a farmer

         of Sabine Parish, La.), Fannie (wife of O. M. Maars,

         of this place), Maggie and Tom Dick at home.

         Those deceased are: Carrie (who died when twenty-

         seven years of age), Emma, Mollie B., and Kate

         O'Neal.  In 1886 Dr. Wall was married to Mrs.

         Sarah Darby, of Alabama, a widow, and they have

         one child, Audra. Dr. Wall is a Mason, a Democrat,

         a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and in his re-

         ligions views is a member of the Methodist Epis-

         copal Church South.



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