Shelby County Tn - Biographies - The Goodspeed Biographical Sketches "O" Surnames
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Dr. G. W. OVERALL, a well known physician of Memphis, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., in December, 1849, and was one of five children that was raised.  The parents were Nathaniel S. and D. H. Overall.  The father was born in Rutherford County in 1812, and educated in that county, and is a farmer, now residing near Murfreesboro, Tenn.  The mother was a Miss Crutchfield, born in Wilson County in 1820.  Dr. Overall received his literary education at the Southwestern Baptist University at Murfreesboro, and then commenced the study of medicine under Drs. Clayton and Murfee, of that place, and afterward attended lectures at the University at Louisville and the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating at the latter place in the spring of 1875, then located in his native town, and practiced medicine for three years, when he moved to Memphis, and the following year was elected to fill the chair of physiology, nervous diseases and electrotherapeutics in the Memphis Medical College, and filled the position for five years, when he resigned on account of ill health.  April, 1879, he married Miss Rowena, daughter of Emmet and Jane (Ewing) Eakin, the mother being a sister of the Hon. Joseph W. Ewing.  Mrs. Overall is a native of Murfreesboro, Tenn.  Dr. Overall has been very successful in his profession, and is regarded as a remarkably well posted physician, and his large practice is constantly increasing.