The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-12-23
Death Of DR.. P. S. FulkersOu.

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years He had been in bad state of {
health for two months but not such
as seriously to interrupt the practice
Of his profession until about two
weeks before his death, Uraemlc
poisoning developed and after four
days confinement to bed he passed
away,
Putnam Smith Fulkerson, eldest
son OF Jacob V. and Catherine Ewing
Fulkerson was born near Stlckleg-
vile, Lee county, Virginia, Jan. 20.
1927. He was the second Of family
of eleven children, Of whom four sur
vlye; Mrs. Margaret Lyons, Of Ken
lucky; Mrs. Ellen Frick, Of Kansas
City Mrs. Emma Reeder, Of Bates
vile, Arkansas; and DR. ] j. Fulker
son, Of this CITY OF the other brothers
and sisters, now dead, two had lived !
\ tn Missouri: DR.. Albert Fulkerson,
who died o this city about eighteen
months ago, and James FulkeTson,
who lived in this county for two
years just before the war between
the states.
DR.. Fulkerson came to this county
from Virginia in lS47 and commenced
the practice Of his profession on Texas
Prairie, making his home with
esquire" Walton, at that time one of
the most widely knowl men / West
ern Missouri. He had previously
studied medicine for six years with
his uncle, James P. Fulkerson, and
had attended lectures in one Of tho
medical colleges of Louisville, Ky
After practicing for several years in
this state he went to Philadelphia,
where be took the post graduate
course in the Jefferson Medical Col
lege, Flushing 10 1854 Returning to
Missouri he located at Chapel Hill,
then flOurishing seat of education.
DR.. FulkeISon was practiclng medi-
cine at Chapel Hill while Francis NJ
Cockrell was teaching in Chapel Hill
College, and here began a friendship
whith lasted until death.
When the war came DR. Fulkerson
who was never lukewarm In anything
heartily espoused the cause of TIL
South and served through the struggle
as surgeon of ShelbYs brigade
Returning to this county at the clos'
OF the war he located al wellington
and in l867-Oct. 15-he vas mar
81 ried to Miss Mary Jane Rulings
daughter Of Thomas Wentworth
@1ings, Of Wellington, who survives
their four children only one
hg, Miss Katherine @. Fulkerso
is city. DR.. Emmett FulkeTsu
Nov. 16, Of this year. Just on
h before his father. Archibal
lerson, the second sen, died Jar
ns9S The second daughter die
moi lily infancy.
a. 9lS78 Dr. Fulkerson was electe
ter. he Office of county collector
chi nc "a office he filed two terms. II
om to Lexington with his family /
a. Wear and conducted his otliC
tor through deputies wlthou
Marri interruption to his professioni
T. lie. In 1884 he was appointe
haclStmaster OF Lexington during th
" first Cleveland administration. Tn
"A office, too, was efficiently conducte
though deputies. He had 40 desrr
nor was 1t possible for him, to q
away from professional practiC
which for more than fifty years take
his physical strength to the utmos
He was president of the Count
Medical Society from ils reorganz
ton 70 the time OF his death 4
was,more than once president of IL
District Medical society Of Kans,
Oily, and several times vice preslder
OF the State Society, before which /
was often appointed TO read pape
upon medical subjects.
But these political and profession
honors are to be lightly esteemed
comparison with the extraordinal
affection in which be was wide
held, Nor was 1t unnatural thi
4 this should be so. II any man eV
deserved TO be written as one wi
g loved and served his fellow mt
that man was DR.. Fulkerson. H
professional miuistrations were
faithful aud tender as those OF
parent. No demand upon him W
ever TOO great. He counted no sci