Hopkins CO. TX - Dr. D. C. Pardue From: June E. Tuck ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** DR. D.C. PARDUE was born in Perry County, Mississippi, in 1835, educated in Green County Salem High School; then engaged in the mercantile business in Mobile, Alabama, until the beginning of the civil war. He then enlisted and became Captain of Co. C 7th Mississippi Battalion. Soon after the close of the war he came to Collins County, Texas, and taught school two years; then attended medical lectures and graduated at Tulane Medical College in New Orleans; returned to Texas and took up his profession, which he has since followed. He later engaged in the drug business at Nevada, Texas. In 1894, he was married to Miss Bell D. Binford of the same place, to which union was born two children. Wife and children survive. He died December 25, 1911, with burial in the Cumby cemetery. (Cumby Rustler)