The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-03
DEATH OF DR.. c. r. NORMAN.

Man remains few years on earth to
fight the battles, trials and temptations of
life then he passes into the far beyond
to reap the rewards of his earthly victories.
On Friday morning, Jan. =, 1910, just
as the sun had peeped over the eastern
hill-tops and everything was in the very
morning of life, Christopher Rankin Nor
man, M, D., babe farewell to loed ones
and friends at his home in D'Lo, Simpson
county, Mississippi, to grees loved ones
on the shores of eternity and there to dwell
in the beautiful city of God.
DR.. Norman was born in Pike county,
Miss, March 2, 1928, thus making him
the Oldest of the pioneer physicians. He
was son of Thomas and Mary (Powell)
Norman, the former of whom was born
in Kentucky, while the latter as born
in the state of Georgia their marriage
being solennized in Pike county about the
time the state was admitted into the union,
where the father became a pioneer plan
ter and inhuntal citizen.
Dr. Norman received his earlier educa-
tional training in Pearl River Academy,
one of the leading educational institutions
in the. state at that time, and later he took
up the study of medicine in Canton, Madi-
son county, gaining an excellent prelimi-
nary knowledge of a technical sort. After
wards he supplemented this by taking
courses in leading schools in New Or
leans, La, and Memphis, Tenn. In the
meanwhile he had done affective service
as a teacher in the schools of Mississippi.
He then located in the practice of his
ing to Rankin county where he was sue
cesSfully engaged in general practice for
nearly half century, ending the siren
uouS labors and self-abnegating toll which
was the portion of the faithful physician
of the early days, ministering to those
In distress with solicitouS care, no mat
ter how great the discomforts and hard
ships in a personal way. 1t is needless
TO say that he is held in affectionate re-
gard by many of the old and prominent
families in Rankin county and adjoining
counties.
In 1900 DR.. Norman located in D'Lo,
Simpson county, where he continued in
practice, though in a more limited way
caused by his old age,till the death angel
bade him come to rest.
Being young, only know him personal
ly after he moved to do, but since I
have known him, | have known him only
as a kind and compassionate friend, not
only to few but to the whole community.
His mission in the world did not seem to
be that he might accumulate earthly goods
to satisfy his selfish wants, although he
made success of his calling in every way,
but that he might be a physician in the
time of need to turn pain into comfort
md reverse sickness into health. Being
our family physician from as far back as
I can remember he never refused to come
when called even though it be the dar-
kest hours of midnight. Not only do
remember the time in our home when he
STAYED by the bedside of mother, who
was dear to me, but day after day do
remember his sitting by the bedside of
brother and sister, who to day may live
on account of his unwearied hands Many
dark nights do | remember his leaving
the sweet rest and comforts of sleep and
making his way through the little town
in which he lived, to the bedside of a
sick one, not that it was compulsory for
his support but because he loved his fell
lowmen.
AT the outbreak of the civil war DR..
Norman enlisted in the tenth Miss. infantry
as a private and one year later became a
member of the thirty ninth regiment, with
which he served as a surgeon and left
to the confederacy the history of a lost
cause" for which its valiant sons had so
nobly striven.
The doctor was at the siege of Port
Hudson, and after the capitulation joined