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Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin; published in 1891; page 287.




                      J. T. HAMBLET, M. D.
                         Perry's Bridge
Dr. J. T. Hamblet was born in Lafayette county, Mississippi, May
1, 1847.  His parents, Samuel and Malissa (Beevers) Hamblet, were
both natives of Georgia, but removed to Mississippi early in
life, where they reared a family of fifteen children, of whom Dr.
J. T. is the eldest. Mrs. Hamblet died in 1885, and Samuel
Hamblet married a Second time, December, 1890, a Miss Cobb. 
Dr. J. T. Hamblet received the benefits of a good business
education.  At the age of eighteen years he was engaged as
overseer on a plantation in Mississippi, in which capacity he
served for about a year, when he accepted a position as clerk in
a drug store at Water Valley, Mississippi, where he remained four
years.  From there he went to Memphis, Tennessee and was for a
number of years engaged in a wholesale and retail drug house.  In
1872 - 73 he attended the Memphis Medical College, from which he
graduated in the latter year.  He began practice in Delay,
Mississippi. May, 1874. Dr. Hamblet was married in Oxford,
Mississippi, 1875, to Miss Augusta E. Robertson, daughter of G.W.
and Mary (Winfield) Robertson.  Mrs. Hamblet died October 31,
1886, at Perry's Brodge, Louisiana, where the Doctor had lo-
cated the year previous.  Dr. Hamblet was married a second time.,
1887, to Mrs. Kate Nourse, widow of Hiram K. Nourse, of New
Orleans.  Dr. Hamblet has a large practice and conducts a drug
business at Perry's Bridge.  He and wife are members of the M.E.
Church South.  The Doctor is a member of the I.O.O.F. and K. Of
H., in both of which orders he is a prominent worker.