Dallas Co., TX - Bios: William Carter Cullum
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Biography

William Carter Cullum (1843-1924)
Biography on page 871-872 in Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,
Texas. (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1892,) transcribed by Robert Bennett 25 Nov
2005

DR. W. C. CULLOM, of Mesquite, Texas was born in Tennessee in 1843, a son of G.
F. and Cynthia (Hooper) Cullom, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee
respectively.

The father came with his father to Texas when only six years of age, and here
subsequently became a farmer. The parents reared a family of eleven children,
our subject being  the ninth in order of birth, and eight are still living: J.
W. is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Texas;  J. H., a physician
of this State: E. M., a merchant at Nashville, Tennessee; Catherine, the wife of
J. O. Hooper; Jennie, the wife of T. W. Taylor; Florence, the wife of J. E.
Russell, of Tennessee; another is the wife of Sam Larkins. The daughters all
reside in Tennessee. The father died in 1879 and the mother in 1888, at the ages
of seventy- two and seventy-seven years respectively. The mother was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The subject of this sketch received his literary education in Davidson county,
Tennessee, and at the age of twenty-four years commenced life independent of his
father. He had three brothers in the Confederate Army during the war, who
persuaded the Doctor to remain at home with his father, which he did. The father
remained neutral and was never molested, and lost very little by either army. At
the age of twenty-seven years, our subject entered the Medical department of the
university at Nashville—which is known as the Vanderbilt University, in 1871,
and graduated in the class of 1872.

He afterward located at Dixon, Tennessee, where he practiced six years, in
January, 1878, came to this State and located at Haught’s Store, the oldest-
settled place in this county. The original owner, Samuel Haught, sawed the first
plank for flooring a house in Dallas County, using a whip saw. Dr. Cullom
practiced there six years and then came to this place, where he has a large and
paying practice. He succeeded beyond his expectations financially, and is now
the owner of a valuable city property and considerable real estate in the
county.

The Doctor has been three times married, first in 1874, to Miss Sarah Flanavy,
of Tennessee, who died in 1875. In 1878 the Doctor was married to a native of
Tennessee and they had one child. Mrs. Cullom died in 1882, and in 1883 the
Doctor was untied in marriage to Miss Louella Sewell, a daughter of Jessie A.
Sewell, of this county, and they have three children: Emmett B., Nannie G. and
Fannie. Dr. Cullom is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Scyene Lodge, No 295, also
of the K. of H., Mesquite Lodge, No 2,996. He is the J. W. of the Masonic Lodge
and Treasurer of the K. and H.