Bio of Hampton, Dr. P. J. - Grady County, Oklahoma

Transcribed by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>   18 Jun 2006
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DR. P. J. HAMPTON, of Rush Springs, the leading druggist of the place, is 
also, a thoroughly educated physician and a citizen of substantial means 
and high; character. He was born in Johnson county, Missouri, on the 24th 
of August, 1871, where the family was early founded by the paternal 
grandfather, whose ancestry for several generations had been residents of 
North Carolina. He comes of a stanch yeoman stock, and his father is yet 
actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in Missouri. The Doctor himself 
learned all the details of farm work, and faithfully conformed to them 
until he had passed his majority when he decided to break away from its 
routine and enter the professional field as a student of medicine; 
Matriculating at the University Medical College, Kansas City, Missouri, he 
graduated therefrom in 1899 and commenced practice at Ninnekah, Oklahoma. 
After two, years he removed to Rush Springs and opened a drugstore which 
is now one of the most prosperous places of business in town. He owns the 
substantial brick building in which his stock is housed, and has recently 
occupied as his residence a new cement blockhouse of ten rooms, both of 
which facts are evidences of the permanent character of his residence and 
his progress as a citizen. Dr. Hampton has passed all the chairs of the 
blue lodge. A.F. & A. M., Rush Springs, and is high priest of the chapter. 
He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and to the subordinate 
lodge of Odd Fellowship.

Micajah Hampton, the paternal grandfather, emigrated from Wilks county, 
North Carolina, with his family, and located in Johnson county, Missouri, 
where both himself and son, Rufus, were strong- supporters of the Union 
during the Civil War. They were engaged in farming, and were citizens of 
worth and standing. Micajah Hampton died in 1869 at the age of seventy-two 
years, having married a German lady (a Miss Michael) who died at the age 
of one hundred years. They reared a family of thirteen children. The 
father, Rufus Hampton, was born in 1828, and is yet actively engaged in 
farming in the locality where he settled so many years ago. He married 
Sarah Gregory, who died in 1894, the mother of the following: Rachel, who 
married a Mr. Harris of Johnson county, Missouri; William S., a farmer of 
that county; James A., of Mooreland, Oklahoma; Frank L., of Kansas City, 
Missouri, and Dr. P. J. Hampton, of this sketch. The Doctor was married in 
Johnson county, Missouri, on the 11th of October, 1893, to Miss Louise 
Shore, daughter of Theophilus and Francis (Welch) Shore, whose family 
comprised the following: Simeon, of Strausburg, Missouri; Bettie, wife of 
W. S. Hampton; Mattie, now Mrs. James L. Joyce, of Johnson county; Mrs. P. 
J. Hampton, of Rush Springs, Oklahoma; Eliza, married George Kannal and 
resides in Rush Springs, Oklahoma; and Ida, who married Will Nave and 
resides in Jackson county, Missouri. Dr. and Mrs. Hampton have an only 
child, Carmen Louise, born May 15, 1895.
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