Rebecca Shivers and Wm. D. Dorris MD. – Tombstone Inscription

 

Dorris, Rebecca Shivers
Dorris, Wm. D., M.D.
Section 20
ID # 200127 

Rebecca Shivers
Wife of
W. D. Dorris
Born
Jan. 9, 1810
Died
Sept. 22, 1881 

Wm. D. Dorris, M.D.
Born
Aug. 23, 1802
Died
Jan. 30, 1892
Surgeon of 1st Tenn.
Regt Florida 1836
And the 1st Tenn.
Reg’t Mexico 1846 

Documentation
1908 Plat: Rebecca S. & Wm. D. Dorris
               Section 20 WP Lot 11
1909 List: Lot owner Wm. D. Dorris
Interment Index: 9-24-1881 Rebecca Dorris
Nashville Death Index (1874-1913) 1-30-1892
             W.D. Dorris

Interment Book: 5-30-1892 W. D. Dorris
Smith 1908 & Garrett: Same as Recorded 2006

Research Update: 1-12-2009

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After 2009 Restoration

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Copy of article at left from The Daily American, April 23, 1888, courtesy of
P. Duncan Callicott