Adams County MsArchives Obituaries.....Ferguson, George Cockran October 17, 1825
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The Ariel, Monday Oct. 31, 1825
Died - On Monday the 17th, instant, at the residence of his grandfather, Mr. 
Robert Dunbar, sen. Dr George Cockran Ferguson; graduate of the Medical 
University of N.Y. in 23rd year of his age.

Dr. Ferguson was a native of Adams County, Miss; and received his education in 
the Jefferson College. By his acquirements under the tuition, chiefly of Messrs. 
Norton, Caldwell and M. Allister, he exhibited a highly favorable example of 
native genious. After prosecuting his medical studies to completion in N.Y., and 
submitting to some delay in consequence of his immature age, he returned to his 
native state in the spring of 1824, and commenced the practice his profession in 
the town of Washington, where the estimation in which he was held procurred him 
a liberal patronage.

During the late awful visitation of the town of Washington, he remained at his 
post after every other physician had either sickened or fled, devoting himself 
to the cause of humanity.

He saw stretched upon the couch of sickness or in the arms of death the 
remaining population of the place, himself almost the sole exception, when the 
fell destroyer came and arrested his career of usefulness.

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