BIO: Mrs. Dorothy HEVERLY, St. Thomas, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 318
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MRS. DOROTHY HEVERLY
1763-1830

  Mrs. Heverly practiced medicine in Campbellstown and that vicinity from 1800, 
probably earlier, until 1830, when she died.  She was born in 1763 and was the 
wife of Henry Heverly, born 1746, died 1830.  They were Germans of some wealth 
and built and owned some of the best brick houses in the village.  They are 
buried side by side in the Lutheran Churchyard in St. Thomas, the above dates 
being found on their tombstones.

  Mrs. Heverly's medical skill was unquestioned in those days and tradition 
tells some amusing anecdotes regarding her.  When called to visit the sick in 
the "First Families" of the neighborhood she would dress in black satin, putting 
on a bonnet of the same material trimmed with lace, mount her horse and ride 
away in state.