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From: "Vera Reeves" <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] SHEID
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:19:55 -0700
References: <000101c1bc05$42e448c0$f9d069ce@mshome.net> <004301c1bc0e$d939ea60$8c450244@ph.cox.net>


> I don't know about the McGuffey marriage.........but, could well be.
> Octavia Rector was deceased by 1936, right? Dr. Zach lived twenty more
> years and what are the odds of the gentleman living "alone" those years?

Wasn't Doc Z Sheid 27 years old when he married Octavia Rector ?
What's to say he didn't marry before her ? ? ?
I haven't found anything about another wife.
His obit doesn't say a thing about a widow.

In my grandfather's trunk was an article on Doc's retirement. There is no
date but I think it was early 1950s. Several speakers talked; Sheriff J. D.
King, Jr, Owen "Happy" Kendricks, Congressman Victor Wichersham of OK who
was born at Lone Rock, Baxter County told how Doc rode 11 miles each way
through two feet of snow to deliver him. A gold watch was given by the
citizens of Norfork and area by Mr Finley.

Now the Doc was living when this article was writen.
He was 77, born (can't read, July ?) 15, 1874 near Melbourne in Izard
County. He was educated in his profression under Dr. Jim Rector and Dr. E.
A. Baxter. He was married to Octava Jane Rector June of 1900. In 1901 he
began his service which was to continue for 50 years. He enlisted in the
army in 1898 for a period of service in the Spanish-American War under the
command of Jerry South of Mountain Home. It was estimated that he had
delivered more thatn 5, 000 babies.

I've just picked out a line here and there. This article is pieced together
and very dark so don't think it would make a good copy.

Vera





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