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Dr Hamilton Jacob Avinger

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Dr Hamilton Jacob Avinger

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30 Jun 1881 (aged 48)
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Avinger, Cass County, Texas, USA
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In the Spring of 1855 a twenty-two year old doctor came to the Young's Chapel settlement in the Hickory Hill area in the west corner of Cass County. He was H. J. Avinger who was born in 1833 near Vance, Orangeburg County, South Carolina.Dr. Avinger had attended the Jefferson School of Medicine in Philadelphia, graduating at the age of nineteen. He came to Cass County by way of ship to New Orleans and by boat to Jefferson. Then, twenty miles north over the Jefferson and Clarksville Road the Young's Chapel Settlement which was miles from present-day Avinger.

In 1856, Dr. Avinger returned to South Carolina to marry Martha M. "Mattie" Hooker. They arrived in East Texas the spring of 1857. The Avingers were the parents of these children: Julia L., Carrie, and Lawrence.

The Avingers moved near the Hickory Hill settlement and opened a store with emphasis on drugs. They became members of the Presbyterian Church which had been established in 1830's. In 1860, M.D. Avinger, brother of of Dr. Avinger, arrived from South Carolina. A half-brother to these two, Kit Avinger arrived in the 1870's.

When the Red River Eastline Railroad (later the Sherman, Shreveport, & Southern and now Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad) reached the Avinger store in 1877, Dr. Avinger plied the lumbar from the sawmill he owned for a depot. Soon after the Hickory Hill post office was located in the Avinger complex and the settlement renamed Avinger. Dr. Avinger died of a knife wound in 1881.

(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas).
In the Spring of 1855 a twenty-two year old doctor came to the Young's Chapel settlement in the Hickory Hill area in the west corner of Cass County. He was H. J. Avinger who was born in 1833 near Vance, Orangeburg County, South Carolina.Dr. Avinger had attended the Jefferson School of Medicine in Philadelphia, graduating at the age of nineteen. He came to Cass County by way of ship to New Orleans and by boat to Jefferson. Then, twenty miles north over the Jefferson and Clarksville Road the Young's Chapel Settlement which was miles from present-day Avinger.

In 1856, Dr. Avinger returned to South Carolina to marry Martha M. "Mattie" Hooker. They arrived in East Texas the spring of 1857. The Avingers were the parents of these children: Julia L., Carrie, and Lawrence.

The Avingers moved near the Hickory Hill settlement and opened a store with emphasis on drugs. They became members of the Presbyterian Church which had been established in 1830's. In 1860, M.D. Avinger, brother of of Dr. Avinger, arrived from South Carolina. A half-brother to these two, Kit Avinger arrived in the 1870's.

When the Red River Eastline Railroad (later the Sherman, Shreveport, & Southern and now Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad) reached the Avinger store in 1877, Dr. Avinger plied the lumbar from the sawmill he owned for a depot. Soon after the Hickory Hill post office was located in the Avinger complex and the settlement renamed Avinger. Dr. Avinger died of a knife wound in 1881.

(History of Cass County People, by Cass County Genealogical Society, Atlanta, Texas).

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