Hiram Marion Montgomery was a farmer in Eastern Tennessee in 1850. By 1860 he had probably been trained as a physician by apprenticing with another one in TN, and had moved as a doctor to Franklin Co., AR where he himself was training a younger physician, living with the family. Hiram joined the Confederacy there and undoubtedly picked up his experience as a surgeon, having to remove limbs from wounded soldiers, thus family members referred to him by the slang term, "Sawbones."
Immediately after the war he came to Hopkins County, Texas where he was taxed in 1865. By 1869 he had moved to Johnson County, Texas and hung a physician's shingle at Darcy's Drugstore on the courthouse square. In 1880 he's in Palo Pinto County and will move between there and Brown and Mills Counties, where he at times rode a horse to patient's homes, thus family also called him a "saddle-bag" doctor. In 1900 he's in Runnels County, Texas where he dies. His many moves over the post-war years may have been from PTSD, or stress from the Civil War. He was still trying to "doctor," up until his death as the undertaker's record referred to him simply as, "Dr. Montgomery."
Immediately after the war he came to Hopkins County, Texas where he was taxed in 1865. By 1869 he had moved to Johnson County, Texas and hung a physician's shingle at Darcy's Drugstore on the courthouse square. In 1880 he's in Palo Pinto County and will move between there and Brown and Mills Counties, where he at times rode a horse to patient's homes, thus family also called him a "saddle-bag" doctor. In 1900 he's in Runnels County, Texas where he dies. His many moves over the post-war years may have been from PTSD, or stress from the Civil War. He was still trying to "doctor," up until his death as the undertaker's record referred to him simply as, "Dr. Montgomery."
Hiram Marion Montgomery was a farmer in Eastern Tennessee in 1850. By 1860 he had probably been trained as a physician by apprenticing with another one in TN, and had moved as a doctor to Franklin Co., AR where he himself was training a younger physician, living with the family. Hiram joined the Confederacy there and undoubtedly picked up his experience as a surgeon, having to remove limbs from wounded soldiers, thus family members referred to him by the slang term, "Sawbones."
Immediately after the war he came to Hopkins County, Texas where he was taxed in 1865. By 1869 he had moved to Johnson County, Texas and hung a physician's shingle at Darcy's Drugstore on the courthouse square. In 1880 he's in Palo Pinto County and will move between there and Brown and Mills Counties, where he at times rode a horse to patient's homes, thus family also called him a "saddle-bag" doctor. In 1900 he's in Runnels County, Texas where he dies. His many moves over the post-war years may have been from PTSD, or stress from the Civil War. He was still trying to "doctor," up until his death as the undertaker's record referred to him simply as, "Dr. Montgomery."
Immediately after the war he came to Hopkins County, Texas where he was taxed in 1865. By 1869 he had moved to Johnson County, Texas and hung a physician's shingle at Darcy's Drugstore on the courthouse square. In 1880 he's in Palo Pinto County and will move between there and Brown and Mills Counties, where he at times rode a horse to patient's homes, thus family also called him a "saddle-bag" doctor. In 1900 he's in Runnels County, Texas where he dies. His many moves over the post-war years may have been from PTSD, or stress from the Civil War. He was still trying to "doctor," up until his death as the undertaker's record referred to him simply as, "Dr. Montgomery."
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