He fought in the Civil War and is listed in the 1870 census as having been a dentist in Benton and a bachelor who lived with his cousin, Dr. Dunklin Pierce. There is no mention of his having married. He had been in ill health for many years, having been treated for scrofula (a tuberculos condition) while he was in the army.
Betty Smith Beard:
He is on the 1870 U.S. census twice: once in Lowndes County with his "medical group"--his cousins Dr. Dunklin Wathin Pierce and William James Pierce, and again in Montgomery living with his mother and youngest sister.
He fought in the Civil War and is listed in the 1870 census as having been a dentist in Benton and a bachelor who lived with his cousin, Dr. Dunklin Pierce. There is no mention of his having married. He had been in ill health for many years, having been treated for scrofula (a tuberculos condition) while he was in the army.
Betty Smith Beard:
He is on the 1870 U.S. census twice: once in Lowndes County with his "medical group"--his cousins Dr. Dunklin Wathin Pierce and William James Pierce, and again in Montgomery living with his mother and youngest sister.
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