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Along The Way
______ By Emily Klllette *
Many times a family doctor is
more than professional to his
patients, he is a friend. Dr. Ransom
Lee Carter who practiced medicine in
Rose Hill was more than a medical
professional to his patients.
Dr. Carr practiced medicine in
Duplin for more than 30 years before
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much for his medical treatment as
his friendship. An article written
about Dr. Carr's career was
published in the February 24, 1955
Issue of the DUPLIN TIMES. The
author is unknown. The following is
a reprint of that article.
The Story of Dr. Ransom Lee
Carr of Duplin County
After three years of practice in
Magnolia. Dr. Ransom Lee Carr
moved to Rose Hill in 1911 where he
practiced medicine day and night
until his death in 1940, being for
most of these years the only physi
cian serving the village and country
side. He was considered an eminent
diagnostician and a specialist in
pneumonia and other acute diseases,
and conducted the first typhoid clinic
ever held in Duplin County, years
later serving two years as Duplin
County Health Officer.
Dr. Carr was much loved by the
people in general for his kindly and
friendly nature and various incidents
and public sayings gave to this
original Scotch-Irish personality the
character of a legend
Many males in the southern
section of Duplin have "Ransom" or i
"Lee" or "Carr" as part of their
name. It isn't just because Dr.
Ransom Lee Carr brought them into
the world, along witn some o.uuu
others ? it is because their father
and mother could wish for nothing
finer than their boys grow up to be
like him.
A good name is something to live
up to, but it takes more than a name
to create a character. It takes
breeding and training ? and then a
lifetime of being true to the things
that have been bred into you. Dr.
Carr practiced medicine at Rose Hill
for 30 years but he practiced a great
deal more than medicine. He was the
legislator, the editor, the represen
tative at many a meeting, counselor,
father-confessor, and friend of his
people.
The people of this section will
always remember him because he
would kneel beside their sick beds
and ask advice of the Great Physi
cian, because he shouldered their
misfortunes and helped them carry
on, because he was never mercenary
and because he believed and prac
need, Me mai is greatest among
you shall be your jfscrvani." He
owned one of the first automobiles to
come to Southern Duplin, a carbide
lighted, tank-under-the-hood, chain
driven Reo. with the crank on the
side instead of the front and long
before a self-starter was known and
before they began to build bridges
over creeks. He sewed up injured
persons lots of limes with a horsehair
pulled on the spot from some horse's
tail, and kept premature babies alive
with bricks warmed in the fireplace
? before incubators came into style.
These country doctors of the old
school had to do their own doctoring
and could not shift the patient on to
some city specialist. Folks were not
content to merely receive a shot of
penicillin, but the First question after
the doctor's examination always was
"What ails him. Doc?" The doctor
had to diagnose in those days, and
his ability rose and fell with his
diagnostic accuracy.
Heart and soul a physician, he also
felt the pull of politics. A Democrat,
he represented Duplin County in the
General Assembly in the regular
sessions of 1911. 1915, 1923, 1935
and in the special session of 1924. In
the regular and special sessions of
1919-1920, Senator Qarr represented
the Ninth Senatorial District. He was
an official delegate to the Chicago
Convention nominating Franklin
Roosevelt and was for many years
chairman of the Duplin Democratic
Executive Committee. He was Food
Administrator during World War I.
Dr. Carr and D.S. Hines of Faison
established "The Duplin Enter
prise," a weekly newspaper and
mailed the first issue at Warsaw on
March 12, 1911. They later moved
the paper to Rose Hill, and finally
changed the name to "The Wallace
Enterprise" and mailed it from that
point on January 23, 1923. later
selling the paper to the present
publishers of that semi-weekly.
He was an elder in the Mount Zion
Presbyterian Church and was for
many years superintendent of the
Sunday school. Fraternally he was a
Mason, Woodman and Pythian.
This distinguished Duplin citizen
was born September 1, 1878, four
miles west of Wallace, his parents
being the late Gabriel B >ey and
Isabella Johnson Carr. His great
grandfather, Joseph Carr, came to
this country prior to 1725 on the ship
of one Captain Beverly. Captain
Beverly was lost at sea and Mr. Carr
married his widow, Barbara Beverly,
and settled on Maxwell Creek near
Kenansville. It is said that Mrs. Carr
dug with her hands the famous court
house spring at Kenansville.
Dr. Carr graduated from Rockfish
Academy in 1897, attended Davidson
College, the North Carolina Medical
College, the Medical College of
Virginia, and was graduated from
the University of Maryland in 1907,
He was firs' married to Miss
Victoria Patterson of Taylorsville and a
they had three sons: Murphy, W
George and the late Victor Carr.
After the death of Mrs. Carr in 1914,
Dr. Carr was later married to Miss
Mary Estelle Moore of Wadesboro
and to this union were born Mrs.
Stella Carr Bland and Charlton Carr.
Tolerate
Shading
Those boxwoods you may be plan
ning to plant this fall or winter will
do better if they are located where
they will receive at least a small
amount of shade.
Boxwoods are tolerant of shade
and ideally should be located where
they receive full sunlight during
part of the day and mottled shade
at other times, North Carolina
State University extension hor
ticulturists say.
Best growth is in fairly heavy clay
soil that is well supplied with
organic matter The boxwood will
grow in a wide-range ol soil types,
including sandy loam. But
whatever the soil, it should be well
drained.
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