Hezzie D. Bulloch, M. D., Washington Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Hezzie D. Bulloch, M. D. Among the old Louisiana names that for generations have represented business, public, professional and social interests of importance, that of Bulloch occupies a leading place, and Dr. Hezzie D. Bulloch, physician and surgeon at Covington, and coroner of St. Tammany Parish, both professionally and personally maintains the old family prestige. Doctor Bulloch was born in Washington Parish, Louisiana, August 15, 1882, a son of Sandy D. and Ida A. (Varnado) Bulloch, and a grandson of David and Lucinda Bulloch, the latter of whom still survives, residing at Picayune, Mississippi. David Bulloch was born on his father's plantation in Washington Parish, Louisiana, where the greater part of his life was spent as an extensive farmer. During the war between the states he served with valor in the Confederate Army, after its close retiring to his estate for the rest of his life. Sandy D. Bulloch, who is one of the representative business men of Covington, was born on the home plantation in Washington Parish, March 16, 1861, grew to manhood there and engaged for a time in farming but later became a merchant. In 1896 he came to Covington, where he was active in mercantile life for ten years, in the meanwhile becoming interested also in banking, and since the Covington Bank & Trust Company was organized in 1898, has been its first vice president. He owns a great amount of valuable real estate, including extensive timber tracts. Mr. Bulloch is a very important factor in democratic political circles, for two terms serving as a member of the State Democratic Committee, and in the election for sheriff of St. Tammany Parish being defeated by only sixty-five votes. For a number of years he was an alderman of Covington, and at present is a member of the St. Tammany Parish Executive Committee of the democratic party. He is prominent also as a Mason, being a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons; Grand Consistory of the State of Louisiana, thirty-second degree, and belongs to Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, at New Orleans. He married Ida A. Varnado, who was born in Pike County, Mississippi, and died in December, 1923, at Covington, Doctor Bulloch being their only living child. Hezzie D. Bulloch passed the first fourteen years of his life on the home farm in Washington Parish, where he attended both private and public schools. After the family moved to Covington he had further advantages, attending the high school at Franklinton, Louisiana, the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, in 1898, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, Mississippi, in 1899. He spent one year of study in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta, Georgia; another year in the medical department of the University of the South at Sewanee, Franklin County, Tennessee; a third year in the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans, returning then to the University of the South for the fourth year of his course, and was there graduated in the class of 1903, with his degree of Doctor of Medicine. It was in 1910 that Doctor Bulloch established himself in medical practice at Folsom, in St. Tammany Parish, where he practiced for seven years, and left an honorable professional reputation behind him when he came to Covington in 1917. He is a general practitioner and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens generally. An indication of this is shown by his election and reelections, continuous from 1916 to 1924 inclusive, to the office of coroner of St. Tammany Parish. He is a member of St. Tammany Parish Medical Society, of which he is a past president and a past secretary, and in December, 1924, was elected again as secretary and treasurer for 1925. He is also a member of the Louisiana State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and the Southern Medical Association. During the World war he was the medical member of the St. Tammany Parish Draft Board. Doctor Bulloch married at Sewanee, Tennessee, December 20, 1903, Miss Elizabeth Levergne Brazleton, daughter of H. W. and Lottie Brazleton, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Doctor and Mrs. Bulloch have one son, Wilson Donice, who was born September 30, 1904. He graduated in 1924 from the Covington High School and is now a student at the Louisiana State University. Doctor Bulloch and his family are members of the Baptist Church. He owns real estate at Folsom, Louisiana, and a comfortable, attractive residence situated on Lockwood Street, Covington, maintaining his offices in the Bulloch Building, a modern structure on Columbia Street, Covington, owned by his Lather, whose property interests here are large. In politics he has always been affiliated with the democratic party. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner, a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Tammany Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, Covington, of which he is a past high priest; Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar; Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, New Orleans, and the Grand Consistory of Louisiana. He is a member also of Holly Camp No. 31, Woodmen of the World, at Covington, and of the United Order of Ancient Druids. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 157-158, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.