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Dr Benjamin B Drane

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Dr Benjamin B Drane Veteran

Birth
Columbia County, Georgia, USA
Death
23 Jan 1905 (aged 74)
Yalobusha County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Grenada, Grenada County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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12/05/1830 - Born, Columbia Co., GA [Father: Benjamin Drane (1803-1895); Mother: Sarah Germany (1809GA-1859MS)
12/09/1850 - Student, Western Division, Choctaw Co., MS (lived with his parents and sibs; indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as Benjamin Drane)
1855 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, New York, NY (from: MS)
10/17/1859 - Mother, Sarah, died of cancer, Choctaw Co., Mississippi
07/21/1860 - Practiced medicine, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived in a boarding house; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as B. B. Drane)
07/01/1862 to 09/30/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Confederate States Army, Grenada, MS, at $80/mo.
10/14/1862 - Married, Harriet Guy (1828-), Yalobusha Co., MS
11/11/1862 - "Form 13 - Certificate of Disability for Discharge, Army of the Confederate States. We certify that we have carefully examined the said Wm. Yarbrough of Captain J. Dickey's Company [4th AL Battalion] and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, because of Incipient Phthisis Pulmonalis and recommend that he be discharged from service.
B. B. Drane, M.D.
L. A. McLean, M.D.
J. B. Gage, M.D.
Board examining Surgeons
Discharged, this 11th day of November 1862 at Grenada, Miss. Joseph S. Reid, Capt. Commanding Post" [Note: Capt. Dickey was J. B. Dickey who rose to the rank of Maj., 55th AL Infanty.]
01/01/1863 to 02/22/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon
05/02/1863 - Sold two Sorrel Roan Horses to the Confederate States Army for a total of $1,060.00 per valuation by Board of Appraisers under the impressment act
08/18/1863 - As Acting Asst. Surgeon, signed a receipt for 5 quires of paper and a blank book for $11.00, at Grenada, MS
08/25/1863 - Signed a receipt for 56 head beef cattle, averaging 300 lbs. ea. at 15 cts/lb for a total of $2,520, at Grenada, MS
~1864 - Wife, Harriet, died in Yalobusha Co., MS
06/28/1870 - Practiced medicine, Grenada East Ward, Grenada Co., MS (lived with the Edward Sherman family; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as Benjamin Drane)
12/05/1870 - Married, Mrs. Margaret A. E. Land (1828AL-1905MS) Yalobusha Co., MS [Note: Margaret was the widow of the late Benjamin Land (1806-1868.)
06/28/1880 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived with wife, M. A. E., and one son; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as B. B. Drane)
08/25/1888 - " . . . .Some two miles west of Torrance [Yalobusha Co., MS] can be found a large mansion and extensive domain of Dr. Drane, a gentleman of high social attainments, a first class physician and a distinguished surgeon, he has the accredited monopoly of his profession for many miles around him. His family at this time consists of his wife, his intelligent sister, Mrs. Cundiff, and her two sprightly children. . . ." (The Grenada Sentinel, Grenada, MS, Aug. 25, 1888, p. 9, c. 5.)
1890 - Practiced medicine, Torrance, Yalobusha Co., MS
06/14/1895 - Father, Benjamin, died in French Camp, Choctaw Co., MS
11/20/1897 - "Dr. B. B. Drane, of Torrance [MS], spent several days in Grenada [MS] this week with friends and relatives. He is an excellent gentleman and well and favorably known in Grenada. We regret to state that he is in ill health, having been partially paralyzed some year since." (The Grenada Sentinel, Grenada, MS, Nov. 20, 1897, p. 5,
c. 2.)
06/01/1900 - Practiced medicine, Beat 5, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived with wife, Margaret A. E., a sister-in-law and a niece; indexed in the 1900 U. S. Census as Dr. B. B. Drane)
01/23/1905 - Died at his home, Torrance, Yalobusha Co., MS, after an illness of several years (buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Granada, Granada Co., MS; FindAGrave #255301657; obituaries: Grenada Sentinel, Granada, MS, Jan, 28, 1905, p. 1, c. 4.; Journal of the American Medical Association, 1905, vol. 44, p. 730 .)
00/00/1905 - Widow, Margaret, died

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/13//2023. Unpublished database.
12/05/1830 - Born, Columbia Co., GA [Father: Benjamin Drane (1803-1895); Mother: Sarah Germany (1809GA-1859MS)
12/09/1850 - Student, Western Division, Choctaw Co., MS (lived with his parents and sibs; indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as Benjamin Drane)
1855 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, New York, NY (from: MS)
10/17/1859 - Mother, Sarah, died of cancer, Choctaw Co., Mississippi
07/21/1860 - Practiced medicine, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived in a boarding house; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as B. B. Drane)
07/01/1862 to 09/30/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Confederate States Army, Grenada, MS, at $80/mo.
10/14/1862 - Married, Harriet Guy (1828-), Yalobusha Co., MS
11/11/1862 - "Form 13 - Certificate of Disability for Discharge, Army of the Confederate States. We certify that we have carefully examined the said Wm. Yarbrough of Captain J. Dickey's Company [4th AL Battalion] and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, because of Incipient Phthisis Pulmonalis and recommend that he be discharged from service.
B. B. Drane, M.D.
L. A. McLean, M.D.
J. B. Gage, M.D.
Board examining Surgeons
Discharged, this 11th day of November 1862 at Grenada, Miss. Joseph S. Reid, Capt. Commanding Post" [Note: Capt. Dickey was J. B. Dickey who rose to the rank of Maj., 55th AL Infanty.]
01/01/1863 to 02/22/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon
05/02/1863 - Sold two Sorrel Roan Horses to the Confederate States Army for a total of $1,060.00 per valuation by Board of Appraisers under the impressment act
08/18/1863 - As Acting Asst. Surgeon, signed a receipt for 5 quires of paper and a blank book for $11.00, at Grenada, MS
08/25/1863 - Signed a receipt for 56 head beef cattle, averaging 300 lbs. ea. at 15 cts/lb for a total of $2,520, at Grenada, MS
~1864 - Wife, Harriet, died in Yalobusha Co., MS
06/28/1870 - Practiced medicine, Grenada East Ward, Grenada Co., MS (lived with the Edward Sherman family; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as Benjamin Drane)
12/05/1870 - Married, Mrs. Margaret A. E. Land (1828AL-1905MS) Yalobusha Co., MS [Note: Margaret was the widow of the late Benjamin Land (1806-1868.)
06/28/1880 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived with wife, M. A. E., and one son; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as B. B. Drane)
08/25/1888 - " . . . .Some two miles west of Torrance [Yalobusha Co., MS] can be found a large mansion and extensive domain of Dr. Drane, a gentleman of high social attainments, a first class physician and a distinguished surgeon, he has the accredited monopoly of his profession for many miles around him. His family at this time consists of his wife, his intelligent sister, Mrs. Cundiff, and her two sprightly children. . . ." (The Grenada Sentinel, Grenada, MS, Aug. 25, 1888, p. 9, c. 5.)
1890 - Practiced medicine, Torrance, Yalobusha Co., MS
06/14/1895 - Father, Benjamin, died in French Camp, Choctaw Co., MS
11/20/1897 - "Dr. B. B. Drane, of Torrance [MS], spent several days in Grenada [MS] this week with friends and relatives. He is an excellent gentleman and well and favorably known in Grenada. We regret to state that he is in ill health, having been partially paralyzed some year since." (The Grenada Sentinel, Grenada, MS, Nov. 20, 1897, p. 5,
c. 2.)
06/01/1900 - Practiced medicine, Beat 5, Yalobusha Co., MS (lived with wife, Margaret A. E., a sister-in-law and a niece; indexed in the 1900 U. S. Census as Dr. B. B. Drane)
01/23/1905 - Died at his home, Torrance, Yalobusha Co., MS, after an illness of several years (buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Granada, Granada Co., MS; FindAGrave #255301657; obituaries: Grenada Sentinel, Granada, MS, Jan, 28, 1905, p. 1, c. 4.; Journal of the American Medical Association, 1905, vol. 44, p. 730 .)
00/00/1905 - Widow, Margaret, died

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/13//2023. Unpublished database.

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