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From: "Dana Thomas" <>
Subject: [TXCASS-L] Fw: Smith County TXGenWeb Project- Families
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:29:08 -0500

If you have Smith County ancestors or relatives you'll want to check this
out!
Dana

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> Dr Sam Overton - Pioneer Doctor of Old Canton (Omen), Texas
> Vintage Medical Ledgers Perused by Joel Patrick Childress
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/Pioneers/Childress/toc.html
>
> A grand total of 12,550 entries were transcribed from Dr. Overton's
ledgers,
> and were simultaneously entered into a database file, thus allowing for
> various data sorting and query retrievals. An alphabetical listing of all
> 1,588 unique surnames appearing in all six ledgers noted above is
available
> for the reader's review.
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/Pioneers/Childress/indxsurnm.txt
> Also a complete listing of all births and birthing procedures recorded by
> Dr. Samuel Overton in the ledgers is transcribed for this article.
> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/smith/history/medical/ledger1.txt
>
> He has also contributed the Jesse Overton Bible
> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/smith/bible/ovbible.txt
> as well as pictures and information about all of the family of Dr. Overton
> and the Overtons of Smith County. You will enjoy reading how Dr. Overton
> was paid as well as the medicines he prescribed for his patients.
>
> Pat has done an outstanding work of copying the ledgers of Dr. Samuel
> Overton, his greatgreatgrandfather and putting the information into a very
> interesting and informative publication. We are very happy to have this
> work a part of the Smith County TXGenWeb Project.
>
> How lucky you are if you have Canton (Omen), Smith County, Texas,
> Ancestors - bet you find them here!
>
> We are adding almost daily to the Smith County TXGenWeb Project
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/ and Smith County Archives.
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/smith/smittoc.htm If you haven't
> visited us lately - come by for a visit!
>
> Mary Love Berryman
> County Coordinator, Smith County TXGenWeb Archives

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