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Julian Feild, MD

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
December 26, 27 and 28, 1932
Researched by Rita Martin and compiled by Barbara Knox

 

     

Dr. Feild died at his home in December 1932 after a long illness. He had been retired from active practice for twenty-five years. Services were held Tuesday at the Gause-Ware Funeral Home, Rev. James K. Thompson officiating. Members of the Julian Feild Masonic Lodge were in charge of graveside services in East Oakwood Cemetery.

A resident of Fort Worth for 78 years, Dr. Feild was educated in a box shanty which once served as a hospital for soldiers stationed at the old fort - Col. Peter Smith was his teacher. At age 17, Feild entered service in the CSA and two years later began the study of medicine, graduating in 1869 from the University of Louisville's medical school. He first practiced in Mansfield and moved to Fort Worth in 1872. Early in his practice, he was associated with Dr. W. P. Burts and Dr. Elias Bell. He was the first president of the Tarrant County Medical Society and served as president of the State Medical Association in 1878.

Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. W. R. Edrington, Mrs. J. M. Collins and Mrs. G. V. Morton, all of Fort Worth, and Mrs. J. W. Sandridge, Aledo; two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Foster, Fort Worth and Mrs. John E. Walraven, Dallas, and two brothers, Dr. Bingham Feild, Enid, Okla. and George Feild, Dallas, 12 grand children and 9 great-grandchildren.

[Dr. Feild's wife died in April 1931. The daughter of C. B. Daggett, Sr., she was born April 20, 1863, in a house which then stood on the present site of Mount Olivet Cemetery. She first married E. V. Barre in 1886 and married Dr. Feild in September 1923. She always loved flowers and grew many of them in the yard of her home. A bouquet of the flowers she tended with her own hands will be placed on her grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 3, 1931]


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