Calhoun County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Stiles, Oliver B., Dr 
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Cemetery:           Sandstone Cemetery
Name:               Oliver B., Dr Stiles

Date Of Photograph: June 2006
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Dr. Oliver B. Stiles; b. July 10, 1812, d. Aug. 4, 1845 (Hidden In Bushes)

(BELOW IS FROM ED STILES 3x GREAT GRANDSON OF DR. OLIVER STILES)
Dr. Oliver Stiles studied medicine with Dr. Brooks, of Binghamton, NY and graduated from the New York College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, then located at Fairfield , Herkimer Co, NY in Jan. 31, 1837
He married Lucy K. Caroline Rodgers of Triangle, Broome County, NY in April 1837, 
she was a direct descendent of John Rodgers, the Martyr.
They moved to Michigan in May 1, 1838,and settled in the village of Ceresco, Calhoun County, Michigan.
He practiced medicine, "which proved to be very laborious, even for a pioneer physician, 
he having to ride almost exclusively upon horseback, over mere paths and oftentimes follow marked 
trees though the forests and swamps to  reach his numerous and widely separated patients. 
During the summer of 1845 a severe epidemic of malarial typhus occurred, 
and he continued to visit his patients, even after the disease had  fastened upon him, 
so that when he did give up to it, there seemed to be no help for him, and he died  August 4, 1845.  
He is buried in the older pioneer graveyard, at Ceresco, Mich.  His widow married again."


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