This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sale, Sneed, Young, Gronemeyer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1873 Message Board Post: Source: Gibbins family Bible of Dearborn County, submitted to me by Shuman researcher Ken Heffley. [email protected] I don't have a date from the newspaper. DR. JAMES HOWARD SALE OLDEST PRACTICING PHYSICIAN IN SOUTHERN INDIANA, PASSES AWAY AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS AND 5 MOS. Dr. James Howard Sale the youngest of a family of eleven children, was born in Gallitan County, Kentucky, july 10, 1843. He was the son of Colonel James H. Sale and Elizabeth Elliston Sale, whose ancestors emigrated from Wales to Virginia previous to the Revolutionary War. General Anthony Sale serving in that war. Later his branch of the family moved to Kentucky, where his grandmother Martha Sneed, the first white child of Kentucky, was born, and Colonel James H. Sale, his father, later served with distinction in the war of 1812, being present at the battle of Tippecanoe, and other important engagement. In the year 1852, the family moved to Dillsboro, when the decedent was nine years of age, where he has resided practically the entire time until his death, which occured at the home of his son, Dr. Fleetwood H. Sale, on Sunday evening, December 21st, 1924, at the age of 81 years 5 months and 2 days. he began the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. Fleetwood H. Sale in early life, and at the age of 17 years began the practice of medicine in Dillsboro, later graduating from the Ohio Medical College. He served his country faithfully during the civil war as a hospital steward and nurse in the government hospitals of Evansville and New Albany, after which he returned to Dillsboro, and was united in marriage to Cordelia A. Young in 1866. To this union was born three children, Dr. Fleetwood H. Sale, Edgar S. Sale, and Ellen E. Gronemeyer, all of Dearborn. In early life he united with the christian church, and was a close student of the holy word, and at all times practiced the christian virtues as exemplified in the life of the great master. He was also a member of the Hopewell Lodge No. 80 and Accepted Masons and of Chapman Lodge No. 78 Independant Order of Odd Fellows, both of Dillsboro. "Dr. Jimmy"as he was familiarly addressed by his legion of friends, pra! cticed medicine in Dillsboro and vicinity for more than 60 years, and in the early days experienced hardships not known to the present generation.