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Along The Way By Emily Killette r There are many factors which combine to make Duplin the pro gressive and people-oriented county P thai it is today. ' One of the major factors contri buting to the present Dupiin is the county's knowledge and respect for .its past. Liberty Hall, the Liberty Carl and the Cowan Miiwim to mind as ways Duplin citizens are preserving the local heritage. And. if further study is done, Duplin's history will be found pre served at the local newspapers through the binding of annual volumes of the weekly edition. In the case of THE DUPLIN TIMES, the . office has books dating back to 1934. Within the books are stories which have become Duplin's history. Along the Way has been re printing the history of the medical profession as published in THE DUPLIN TIMES during 1955. Duplin General Hospital was dedicated in February of 1955 and histories were ^ written of practicing physicians ? within Duplin's many communities. This week Along the Way will feature a physician from northern Duplin, Dr. James M. Grady, as published in the February 24, 1955 issue of THE DUPLIN TIMES. Dr. James M. Grady Doctors who have lived or prac Iiced4n northern Duplin County, Dr. Cobb, Dr. Hill, Dr. Grady. Dr. Ira ft Davis, Dr. Howard, Dr. Jarman and Dr. Maxwell. i Dr. James M. Grady was born in ^ Albertson township, Duplin j I County, 1824. One of the sons of Alfvantior anrl rhnrilo /H.. flA.ni . ..vnM?uv> hiiu v_ 11? i i ?y (v/uuan / ; Grady. His first wife was Elizabeth Howard, a daughter of Thomas Howard, by whom there were born ; Solon, Augustus, James and Ed ward. He second married Mary Grady of Duplin, by whom one giri, ^ Myrtle, was born. His third wife was ? Penelope, a sister of his second wife. No child was born in the third marriage. Dr. James M. Grady was an honest, upright, industrious. Christian gentleman. He lived most of his life in Duplin County but lived a short while in Lenoir and for a few years in Wayne. In 1890 to 1893 he wrote up a family sketch of the Grady, Whitfield, Outlaw families in America and did this by going from home to home in fc Duplin, Wayne and Lenoir and 9 getting the family dau from these connected families. Few doctors, if any, were more beloved and sought after by all classes of people any more than Dr. James M. Grady. He was grandfather to the editor. J.R. Grady of the DUPLIN TIMES. The following sketch of Dr. James M. Grady was penned by him before he died. "Heired the old homestead w here he was raised -- This is where W.W. P Maxwell now lives -- "He had acquired a very good education for that dav. Taught school a good deal. Married Elizabeth Howard, 'aughler of Thomas Howard of Duplin. After spending a year or two on his farm he went to Georgia. There he engaged in leaehing, lost his health, stayed there about five years during which he read medicine under old Dr. St. A. Man of Georgia (A Mass. Yankee). But his health ^ being so very poor, he finally gave ? up" the idea of medicine. He did not go to college but returned to his native home of North Carolina which he had never sold. "After about year's stay in North Carolina he went back to Georgia and Florida on business and was gone a few weeks. After being home about 12 days he was taken sick and sent for a doctor who came and pronounced the case of measles. After a few days a second ditctor was ^ sent for and he pronounced it Erysipulas; it turned ?>ut to be small-pox. It spread considerably before it was ascertained what the disease was. It killed J.M. Grady's child, his father, two sisters, four brothers, several nieces and nephews and several others in the neighborhood. This small-pox epidemic occurred in the winter of 1853-18S4. "After thai J.M. Grady stayed on his farm two years, then he and some other man went into a steam mill enterprise -- the other parties were some of them pretty badly in and after a few years some of the others made deeds of trust and put this property on their own debts and Grady paid the company debts which broke him up completely and in the wind-up his properly was sacrificed and a good many of his own debts were left unpaid. This conclusion left him railroaded in Wayne County. He then farmed and taught school until ihe war bioke "U*. About this time there was an epidemic of diphtheria devastating the country. The doctors generally were a failure in treating it. it broke out among Grady's family and his neighbors and he treated the cases himself and saved everyone. From this people commenced sending a considerable distance for him and soon he had treated 200 cases or more of this disease and had not lost a single case. "The small-pox made its appear ance frequently, being scattered by the soldiers. Grady was called in and his success was marvelous, never losing nvcr live percent ot nis cases under any circumstances and always hedging in and stopping the disease anu nut suffering it to spread. The people (and a good many doctors) seeing his success and finding out that he had read medicine several years under a good physician did not hesitate to call !)im in (no matter what the case was) and trom then until now (about 30 years) he has never been without a pretty good practice. Near the close of the war the conscript law reached him (as he was not a graduate) and he was ordered to enter the Army. His neighbors, the neighboring doctors and milina C.J iiel and others ail sent petition > the headquarters begging the a nhorities to release him and let hint stay at home for the good of those left at home but the authorities would not hear them. 'I'hey retained him in service until the surrender (about six months) during which time he was in a few Tights. Part of the time he was sick and not able to do service. Since the war the has raised a family, worked and paid nearly all the old debts he w as b' >und for. He raised four sons to be grown by his first w ife." DID YOU KNOW >' Olive oii has a prominent place in cooking traditions both ancient and famous in Italy and other cra dles of Western civilization. DUPLIN TIMES-PROGRESS SENTINEL k Published Weeklv by 9 DUPLIN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Ike Riddlck, Publisher P.O. Box 68 Kenansville, NC 28349 Second Class Postage Paid at Kenansvllle, NC 28349 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Single Copy 11 Cents In Duplin and Adjoining Counties 6 Mos.?$1.83 1 Yr.?S3.66 * Outside of Duplin and Adjoining Counties 6 Mos.?$2.35 I Yr.?$4.70 Outside North Carolina $5.50 per year | Sh6ws 7 & 9. Sun. 2, 4, 7 & 9 ^ Underground dwellers Raied R ^4 ? J Sh6ws 7 & 9. Sun., 2, 4*7 & 9 THE NEVERENDINQ STORY I Held Ov?r Second Week ^ ShAws 6:5S & a SUPER GIRL All new Rated PG Eddie Murphy in BEVERLY HILLS COP fc ? 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