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Dr Wesly Calhoun Norwood

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Birth	:	1806 South Carolina, USA
Death	:	16 Jul 1884 Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Upper Long Cane Cemetery, Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.2042007, -82.3917007
Inscription	:	Wesly C. Norwood M.D. 1806-1884 Erected by the Members of the South Carolina Medical Association 1917 [Note: The correct spelling of Dr. Norwood's first name is Wesley, not Wesly, as
Description	:	Father: Daniel Norwood Mother: Sarah Harris 1829 - Senior student, Vermont Academy of Medicine, Castleton, VT (from: Abbeville District, SC; Instructor: assigned Professor - Woodward) 1830 - M.D. degree, Vermont Academy of Medicine, Castleton, VT 00/00/1832 - Married, Jane Pickens Miller (1805-1867) 12/03/1850 - Practiced medicine, Cokesbury, Abbeville Co., SC (living with wife, Jane, and five children - indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Wesley C. Norwood) 08/06/1851 - Applied for a U.S. Passport [Description - age 44; stature: 5 ft., 9 in.; forehead: high; eyes: grey; nose: small; mouth: medium; chin: full & dimpled; hair: dark brown; complexion:... Read More	Father: Daniel Norwood Mother: Sarah Harris 1829 - Senior student, Vermont Academy of Medicine, Castleton, VT (from: Abbeville District, SC; Instructor: assigned Professor - Woodward) 1830 - M.D. degree, Vermont Academy of Medicine, Castleton, VT 00/00/1832 - Married, Jane Pickens Miller (1805-1867) 12/03/1850 - Practiced medicine, Cokesbury, Abbeville Co., SC (living with wife, Jane, and five children - indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Wesley C. Norwood) 08/06/1851 - Applied for a U.S. Passport [Description - age 44; stature: 5 ft., 9 in.; forehead: high; eyes: grey; nose: small; mouth: medium; chin: full & dimpled; hair: dark brown; complexion: dark; face: round] - signs passport application as Wesley C Norwood 1853 - Invented and patented "Norwood's Tincture of Veratrum Viride", a patent medicine. Later manufactured by the Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, NY, under license from Dr. Norwood 1855/1856 - Declined the professorship of materia medica and therapeutics, Oglethorpe Medical College, Savannah, GA 1858 - Published, Norwood, Wesley C, The therapeutical powers and properties of veratrum viride, Van Benthuysen Printer, Albany, NY 07/30/1860 - Son, William T. Norwood, attending South Carolina College, Columbia, SC 08/20/1860 - Practiced medicine, Abbeville Co., SC (living with wife, Jane P., and four children - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as W.C. Norwood) 1861-1865 - Treated sick and wounded Confederate soldiers as a civilian M.D., Cokesbury, Abbeville Co., SC 01/07/1862 - Father, Daniel, died, Troup Co., GA 11/30/1862 - Mother, Sarah, died, Troup Co., GA 1863 - Held a position in the Confederate Medical Dept., possibly as an Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician) [File card microfilmed in T456, Reference File Relating to Confederate Medical Officers - has the notation for Norwood, W.C: Cokesbury, S.C. Res. 86-O-63] 03/29/1864 - The Medical Purveyor's Depot, Macon, GA, under Asst. Surgeon and Medical Purveyor William Hutson Prioleau, purchased 16 oz. of Norwood's Tincture of Veratrum Viride at $3/oz. 03/25/1865 - Son, William Tally Norwood, died in the Civil War 01/26/1867 - Assisted J. Fletcher Townsend, Cokesbury, SC 04/05/1867 - Wife, Jane, died, Abbeville Co., SC 06/00/1869 - Gravely ill and thought to be on his "death bed" 10/20/1869 - Youngest daughter, Sallie Margaret Norwood, died of typhoid fever 1869 - Member, Medical Association of South Carolina 1870 - Practiced medicine, Cokesbury, Abbeville Co., SC (living with L. N. Norwood, a 12 y.o. female, possibly a daughter - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as W. C. Norwood) 08/29/1871 - Married, Eugenia "Jennie" Davis (1844-????), Hodges' Depot, Abbeville Co, SC [?was she previously married to a Mr. Townsend or a Mr. Timmons] 1875 - Built a new house, Hodges' Depot, Abbeville Co, SC 06/11/1880 - Retired physician, Hodges, Abbeville Co., SC (living with wife, Eugenia, and two granddaughters - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Wesley Norwood) 07/14/1880 - Honorary member, Abbeville Medical Society, Abbeville, SC 07/16/1884 - Died at his home after a long illness, Hodges, Abbeville Co., SC 08/16/1884 - Distribution of his large fortune "among the high schools" of South Carolina according to the terms of his Last Will and Testament Dr. Guy Hasegawa and Ray Nichols provided input to this biography. This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. 03/24/2016. Unpublished database.

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Dr Wesly Calhoun Norwood's memorial is located at: Upper Long Cane Cemetery, Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA.
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Dr Wesly Calhoun Norwood death on 16 Jul 1884 in Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 34.2042007
Longitude: -82.3917007

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Jane Pickens Miller Norwood

(1805 - 1867)

Siblings

Children

Sgt W. Tally T Norwood

(unknow - 1865)

Sallie Margaret Norwood

(unknow - 1869)

Frances “Fannie” Norwood Townsend

(1833 - 1871)

PVT Wesley R Norwood

(1839 - 1863)

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Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2042007, -82.3917007

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Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
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13. Campfield Baptist Church Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2521080, -82.4093810

14. Clear Spring AME Church Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2567520, -82.3845480

15. Cypress Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2016520, -82.4645270

16. Guffin - Spence - Williams
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.1533840, -82.4316000

17. Adams-Vann Family Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.1445140, -82.3683540

18. Martin Family Cemetery
Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2356284, -82.4644769

19. Aiken Cemetery
Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2491989, -82.3285980

20. Eakin Cemetery
Abbeville County, USA
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21. Saint Peter AME Church Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.1313130, -82.4150360

22. McCord Family Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.1593330, -82.3181670

23. Gilgal Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
Coordinate: 34.2764015, -82.3497009

24. Mount Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery
Abbeville, Abbeville County, USA
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