Dr Wyatt Slaughter
1826-1888

Dr Wyatt Slaughter was born Febtruary 23, 1826 in Pitt Co., North Carolina to Abner & Mary Cannon Slaughter. July 7, 1947 he married Mary Ann Fleming at Marshall Co., Tenn. She was from Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He passed away June 9, 1888 at Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ar. His burial was in Forest Park Cemetery, Fort Smith. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HISTORICAL REVIEW OF ARKANSAS 1911: http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalreview03hemp/historicalreview03hemp_djvu.txt HISTORICAL REVIEW OF ARKANSAS ITS COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND MODERN AFFAIRS FAY HEMPSTEAD ILLUSTRATED VOL.Ill CHICAGO 1911 Elam H. Stevenson, M. D., a well-known physician and one of the organizers and twice president of the Arkansas State Eclectic Medical Association was born near Pulaski, Giles county, Tennessee, and was there reared and given his primary education. He studied medicine in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was graduated with the class of 1879. He began the practice of his profession in Shelby county, near Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1880 removed to Beebe, Arkansas, where he practiced in association with his father-in-law. Dr. Wyatt Slaughter, till 1882. In 1883 Dr. Stevenson took up his residence at Fort Smith, where he won great success. In 1880, in the office of Drs. Slaughter and Stevenson at Beebe, he and Dr. Slaughter and Dr. Pruett of Russellville, Dr. Park of Cabot. Dr. John S. Eastland of Judsonia, and Dr. M. P. Dumas of Bald Knob organized the Arkansas State Eclectic Medical Association. Dr. Stevenson has been twice chosen to its presidency and three times to its secretaryship. There are now about two hundred and fifty eclectic physicians in the state, and about one hundred and fifty of them are enrolled in this association, which is in a flourishing condition. Dr. Stevenson is president of the board of trustees of the Central Methodist Episcopal church South, of Fort Smith, which position he has held by repeated re-election since the organization of that body. He was a leading spirit in founding the church and one of its constituent members. Mrs. Stevenson was Miss Martha C. Slaughter, who was born and reared in Shelby county, Tennessee. She is a daughter of Dr. Wyatt Slaughter mentioned above. Dr. Stevenson's son. Dr. J. Eugene Stevenson is associated with him in the practice of medicine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ July 28, 1888 April 16, 1886