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| Birth: | 3 May 1861 in Palmetto, GA |
| Death: | 18 Apr 1937 in Weatherford, TX |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Lemuel Garrett b. 19 Oct 1827 in South Carolina |
| Mother: | Martha Cash b. 29 Jan 1827 in Elbert Co., GA |
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Individual:
studied medicine at Emory College, GA
1892 - moved to Texas
Dr. Alexander Stephens Garrett, born on May 3, 1861, was named after the vice-president of the Confederacy (two
older brothers were named after Christopher Columbus and General Lafayette). Dr. Garrett's wife,
Gabriella Medora Kidd, had also been raised without a father after the Civil War. As a boy, because
of Georgia's great poverty and disorder during Reconstruction, Alexander Stephens rarely attended the
local Campbell County rural schools because his help was needed on the farm. Only after his marriage
at 18 was he able to finish high school in Hapeville, GA and medical school at Atlanta Medical
College/Emory College, Atlanta. Graduating in 1890, he became a general practitioner and surgeon. In
fact, despite the family's post-war difficulties, not to mention fatherlessness, all five of Lemuel Garrett's
sons became "professional men" -- three lawyers and two physicians.
About 1892, after two years of medical practice at home in Palmetto, GA, Dr. Garrett moved to
Santo, Palo Pinto County,TX at the invitation of Gabriella Medora's uncle, James Alpheus "Captain" Kidd, a wealthy owner of
mercantile stores there. Two years later the family relocated to Palo Pinto, the county seat, where James Alpheus Garrett was
born during Dr. Garrett's eight years of practice there. For 15 years he worked in Springtown, Parker County, before settling in
Weatherford, TX, the county seat in 1917. He also served as city and county health officer for Parker County. He not only
made house calls at night, he would sometimes spend the night if necessary. Many times patients would pay their bills with a
bushel of potatoes or with laundry service. He once got into legal trouble for writing too many prescriptions, out of kindness.
Dr. Garrett became a Baptist Sunday School superintendent at age 20 and was ordained to the ministry a decade or so later.
He was removed from the Baptist church in Springtown for taking communion at other churches while studying their practices.
Late in life, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, he told an interviewer that he was religiously liberal; in particular, non-sectarian. He
organized and taught a non-sectarian Sunday School in Weatherford, TX where he
lived, and supposedly was a member of the Community Church of Park Ridge, IL,
even though he never lived there. As a physician, he would say, "The people are
getting wiser, but they're getting weaker."
A strong-minded man who could have a violent temper, Dr. Garrett spoke and published biting pamphlets against tobacco and
alcohol. Like his son James Alpheus, who resembled him in many ways, he was a constant writer of letters to the editor. Like
many doctors, he was good at giving orders. When he met Gloria Ashorn, he told his son James, "Looks like you found a good
wife. She'll make a man out of you." In 1912 he ran for Congress on the Prohibition ticket, but made only two speeches and
lost the election as he expected. He was an enthusiast for health, eating oatmeal each morning and using unrefined flours. He
also enjoyed sorghum molasses and sweet potatoes. At one point he wanted his wife to bake him a fruit pie every day. In spite
of his rigorous diet, by which he hoped to live to 100, he died before age 76 of diabetic complications. While he had become
rather agnostic, in the words of his granddaughter, "he got scared" in his final years. He is buried in Springtown, TX.
studied medicine at Emory College, GA
1892 - moved to Texas
!BIRTH: for other children from Census and IGI, see Martha Cash facts
!MARRIAGE:guessed
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