Lenoir County NcArchives History....Prescription, bef. 1856

*****************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm

*****************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, February 17, 2019.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

JAMES M. DAVIS TO MR. SUTTON, BEFORE 1856

Mr Sutton. Will Give your Girl two tea 
Spoonful of the medicine in the vial 3 times a 
day (Shake it up well before taking it) as for the 
infections I Suppose you have a plenty as you 
told me when I saw you 
If this does not help her pleas send her up and let 
her stay a few days So I may assertain what medicines 
will answer best.
                           Very Respectfully,
                                 James M Davis

[back side]

[random calculations]

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

James M. Davis was a local physician, see
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/deeds/dbook7b.txt 

He, wife, Mary, and three-year old son, William G. resided on the 
South side of the Neuse River, Wayne County, probably the Indian 
Springs community, per 1850 Census:

See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DCY9-Y58?i=
196&cc=1401638 

Dr. Davis died prematurely in 1856 at the age of 36, and is buried 
in the Seven Springs (NC) Methodist Church Cemetery:

See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82288282/james-m-davis

Therefore, the 1860 Census does not show James M. Davis (deceased). 
However, his widowed wife, Mary, and son, William G. Davis, are living 
in the household of William B. Whitfield, Indian Springs (Wayne Co.), 
suggesting that she re-married. The indicated ages of Mary and William 
would be correct for 1860, based on recorded ages ten years earlier in 
the 1850 Census.

See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS4-9CL2?i=12&cc=
1473181

The documents in this Collection descended to Clellan Thomas Sutton 
(1908-1999) through the Hardy (1803-1861) and Annie Hill (1807-1881) 
Sutton line. The unidentified girl in this document may have been 
Christiana, youngest daughter of Hardy and Annie. She was born in 1850. 
In 1856, the year of Dr. Davis' death, Christiana would have been six 
years of age. If the unidentified girl was Christiana, then the unidenti-
fied Mr. Sutton would have been her father, Hardy, who would have been 
living prior to 1856.