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