The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1903-06-19
DR.. c. c. White. the Victim
of Barking Dogs and a
Vicious Horse.
THROWN FROE BUGGY I'D KILLED.
Lived Several Hours Alter ASH
dent. but Was unconscious and
Spoke Only Few Words
Asked for His Mother.

accidental drowning has this communi-
is been 90 horribly shocked aud grieyed
until the news spread Of tie terrible
fate Of Dr.. c. c. White.
Sometime in the earlier hours Of
Friday night DR.. White received
summons to 90 to Caldwell to see Mrs.
J. VI Wilson. As usual. he had his
Iuggy brought around by Nose Myers.
his colored hOsiler. and at about II
O'Clock they started from the doctors
residence towards town. it being neees-
ssry TO 20 to he drug store fer meai-
cines.
Nose Myers is an old family servant,
having been With the Doctor two and
haif years. and with his father at
Byhalia prior to that time.
The horse has always shown spirited
! action, and on this occasion was
especially restless, and at the outset
undertook to run away. Myers says
the doctor just laughed aud remarked
that we've got long trip before us,
and she wont feel SO good By the time
we get home" He bad scarcely finish
ed the sentence when some dogs ran
out from the side Of the street barking
and yelpirg, and the mare began kick
Ing. About the second kick the ami
nal made she caught the lines and
jerked them away from the driver.
This occurred just opposite Brandon Il
Bauah's stable, and left the doctor and
his driver at the mercy of the frantic
horse. At this time the negro jumped,
and landed safely, except being slight
ly stunned, bruised and his eyes and
face filed with dust.
The doctor followed his driver, but
was thrown on his head at the crossing
on Grant and Dilard streets jus. west
Of the Brandon & Baugh homestead,
his head or back of neck striking one
of the stepping blocks, iDtlicting fatal
injuries.
Bill Lewis, colored, happened to be
passing at the time and reached the
doctor before Nose Myers did. He
was to them apparently dead. They
conveyed him to his home. He was
conscious for few moments. Asked
for water, for bis mother, and for S. A.
Rolfe, and said please save me- He
then relapsed into Inconsistencies.
and fingered until i:25 P. m, satur.
day, when he expired.
DR.. c. c. White was native of
Byhalia, Mississippi, and was 80 years
OF age, being the elder son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. White, one of the most
prominent families of North Mississip-
pi. His parents afterwards removed
to Memphis, where they now reside,
and he came to Forrest City TO prac-
tiee his profession in 1892 He was a
graduate of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, and readily built up fne
practice and was very popular with
the people of the entire county. He at
one time was the hero of small pox
epidemic in this county, and valiantly
risked his health and perhaps his life
in ministering to the wants of the un-
fortunates who had this awful disease.
He has been prominent in medical.
social and business circles and was an
exemplary citizen whom to know init.
mately was to love.
Dr. White was a Master Mason and
a member Of the local camp of Wood
men of the World, in which institu.
tions he took great pleasure and pride.
lie was an exceptionally bright mason.
possessing as he did a most wonderful
memory, and highly cultured mind.
On January -, 1901, he was happily
married to Miss Linnie Mcneil, daugh.
| ter OF DR.. Mcneil, of Olive Branch
Mississippi, who with one child. a
lovely little year and a half old girl,
survive the Inflated husband and
father.
lie had splendid practice and was
on the eye of building a cosy home for
his little family.
In response to the sad news which
was Immediately wired to them, MI.
and Mrs S, w. White and three
children, Misses Olive and Rosa Lee
and MIR. Withers-and DIR. Mcneil
and daughter Miss Peel Mcneil, came
over Saturday and were with the doc
tor in his last hours doing all that low
ing hearts could devise to revive him
and restore him.
The remains were prepared for
burial by Stevens & Co, and lay in
state until the following morning.
when they were conveyed to the Choc-
taw depot under Masonic escort and
Woodmen Of The World and shipped
to Memphis where they were inferred
in the family lot ia beautiful Elm
wood cemetery.
The following Masons and Wood
man n.I