Sandy, According to the autobiography of Rev. W. T. Tardy, "Trials and Triumps," 1910, his father was A. B. Tardy, who lived first @ Troy in Drew County and later moved to Sand Creek, about six miles from Monticello. He wrote, "My father, A. B. Tardy...was born in Tuscaloosa. He was instructed in the science of medicine by his cultured father, but by some strange lapse in fortune, or mistake in educational plans, he never attended college. Neither father nor son ever made any money out of his profession. They did the practice on their several plantations and for neighbors who needed their ministrations, but they did not know how to charge nor how to collect. They gloried in their professional title of doctor and both were marvelously successful practitioners in the old-fashioned school of medicine. I remember very clearly that my father in the country, in Arkansas, was regarded as a pneumonia specialist. The rural folk said that he and his fly blisters were a dead shot against the dread plague of winter. Many is the time that I have carried from my mother fresh, cool, thick and delicious buttermilk to the emaciated, but convalescent pneumonia patients of my father. The children of the household used to say that my father practiced medicine for the good and glory of it, and made us work like galley slaves on the farm for a living." [p. 3] Rev. Tardy helped found the College of Marshall, later to become East Texas Bible College in 1914. There are several quotes from him in Old Times. Rebecca >He was the doctor who attended my >great great grandfather when he died in 1880. The doctor's name was >A.B. Tardy. Is it possible to find out if there is any information on >this Dr. Tardy or any medical journals or records that might be >available? Thanks much for any information you can provide. > >Sandy Lewis >[email protected] >