Dr. Francis M. Motter/Mottu Source: A History of:Mansfield School District,1994 Submitted by Deborah Musgrove Update Submitted by Katie Sockey Dr. Francis M. Motter/Mottu practiced medicine in Salem(now Witcherville), Arkansas between 1870s to 1880s. (Additional notes Jan 2010:) "He was born 1817, in Baltimore, MD. This is were he was educated and received his Doctor's degree. He went south, perhaps the second year of the Civil War, where he served as surgeon at least a year or perhaps two years. Soon after the Civil War he married Charity Elvira Ann Griffith Tucker Hughes and settled in Little River County, AR. He and several doctors had made an agreement that when they died they would donate their bodies to further the study of medicine and science. He died September 10, 1885. They lived about 25 miles southwest of Fort Smith.....This is from information that his youngest daughter, my mother's great aunt, passed down in her writings" More notes - Nov 13, 2020 Baltimore Md. census Dr Motto was living with his parents - father age 70-79 and mother age 60-69 Charity E. Dr. Motto's wife died in 1906 and is buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Midland, Sebastian Co., Ar. Dr. Mottu's parents were born in Switzerland.