Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

Dewell GannAge: 86 years18591945

Name
Dewell Gann
Given names
Dewell
Surname
Gann
Birth March 31, 1859 34 39
Birth of a brotherGreenberry Gann
April 20, 1860 (Age 12 months)
Birth of a brotherDaniel Gann
1864 (Age 4 years)

Birth of a sisterJulia Gann
February 1866 (Age 6 years)
Death of a fatherEdmund Uriah Gann
April 11, 1867 (Age 8 years)
MarriageMartha Harding WhithorneView this family
September 4, 1889 (Age 30 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Dewell Gann
September 14, 1890 (Age 31 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Irl Gann
February 7, 1893 (Age 33 years)
Death of a motherFrances
March 24, 1909 (Age 49 years)
Death of a sisterMartha A. Gann
May 14, 1922 (Age 63 years)
Death of a daughterIrl Gann
October 27, 1927 (Age 68 years)

Death of a sisterNancy Caledonia (Callie) Gann
May 23, 1938 (Age 79 years)
Death of a wifeMartha Harding Whithorne
January 9, 1940 (Age 80 years)
Death of a brotherGreenberry Gann
February 24, 1944 (Age 84 years)

Death September 25, 1945 (Age 86 years)
Burial
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
elder sister
21 months
elder sister
2 years
elder sister
3 years
elder sister
2 years
himself
13 months
younger brother
6 years
younger sister
-13 months
younger brother
Family with Martha Harding Whithorne - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: September 4, 1889Benton, Saline Co, AR
1 year
son
2 years
daughter

Note

Dewell Gann attended Emory University in Atlanta where he received a medical degree on March 31, 1886, his 27th birthday. After graduating he attended medical school in New York where he specialized in surgery. In the summer of 1888, he moved to Arkansas and settled at Sheridan, Grant County, where he opened a practice. In later years, Dr. Gann said the shortage of doctors was the reason he came to Arkansas. He operated his practice in Sheridan for two years before moving to Benton in 1890. At first he operated his medical practice from his home. Later some of his poorer patients, unable to pay their bills, offered to build an office for him. The office was built of bauxite and completed in 1893. It is now the Gann Museum in Benton, AR. He founded the Saline County Medical Society in 1903; there were two members. By 1941 he had delivered more than 3,000 babies without losing a mother--a notable accomplishment considering the medical conditions at that time. He owned the first car in Benton, the first indoor bathroom and the first telephone; his telephone number was 2, the operator was 1. At the presentation of his father's former medical office to the city of Benton for a library in 1948, Dr. Dewell, Jr., described his father's early days in Benton, "In those days wages were 10 cents an hour, and the doctor frequently accepted labor, cows, chickens, and wild honey in return for his work. Ten dollars was the usual fee for a horse and buggy drive and the presentation of an heir." He was buried in Gann Family Mausoleum. From Joy Gann Brown, Hillsborough, NC.