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Dr Emanuel Augustus Hennessee Jr.

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Dr Emanuel Augustus Hennessee Jr.

Birth
Burke County, North Carolina, USA
Death
31 Jan 1918 (aged 54)
Glen Alpine, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
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Gus Hennessee's story is both a triumphant and tragic one. His father was partially paralyzed by a Civil War injury, and his mother died in her 50's of a mysterious ailment. Gus enlisted and was involved in the dealings at Wounded Knee. After service, Gus entered college to fulfill his goal of becoming a doctor.

His first wife, Mollie Merriott (Mary Emily) died at the birth of their last child. Gus married Linnie Raye Brinkley and they had two children.

In 1913, Gus was involved in a dispute with a man which resulted in his injury and death of the other man. Gus was acquitted as it was decided it was self-defense. But in 1918, as he was returning from visiting a patient in Greensboro, Gus was shot as he stepped off the train. The family were devastated by this and most of them moved away.

(From Nita H. Shepard, Burke County Heritage II and the Morganton News Herald; death certificate.)

Interestingly enough, the death certificate notes that there was no doctor in attendance at the time of death. The coronor lists cause of death as "Pistol wounds of chest and abdomen Homicide".
Gus Hennessee's story is both a triumphant and tragic one. His father was partially paralyzed by a Civil War injury, and his mother died in her 50's of a mysterious ailment. Gus enlisted and was involved in the dealings at Wounded Knee. After service, Gus entered college to fulfill his goal of becoming a doctor.

His first wife, Mollie Merriott (Mary Emily) died at the birth of their last child. Gus married Linnie Raye Brinkley and they had two children.

In 1913, Gus was involved in a dispute with a man which resulted in his injury and death of the other man. Gus was acquitted as it was decided it was self-defense. But in 1918, as he was returning from visiting a patient in Greensboro, Gus was shot as he stepped off the train. The family were devastated by this and most of them moved away.

(From Nita H. Shepard, Burke County Heritage II and the Morganton News Herald; death certificate.)

Interestingly enough, the death certificate notes that there was no doctor in attendance at the time of death. The coronor lists cause of death as "Pistol wounds of chest and abdomen Homicide".

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