Dr. John Clinton Eskew

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DR. J. C. ESKEW, physician and surgeon. was born in 1840 in Wilson County, and is the son of Dr. Andrew and Matilda (McFarland) Eskew. The father was born March 16, 1811, in North Carolina, and was a physician and surgeon by profession. His father, Benjamin Eskew, was one of the pioneer settlers of Wilson County, and assisted in forming one of the first settlements In the district. Andrew Eskew was married in 1840, and after studying medicine for some time he took a course of lectures in the Transylvanla College at Lexington, Ky. About the time of his marriage be entered upon his practice, which he continued until his death, which occurred May 6, 1854. The mother was born August 16, 1818, and died November 27, 1854. Our subject was reared at home, and received his literary education in the county schools and at Mount Vernon Academy. At the age of sixteen be began teaching and met with good success. At the age of nineteen he commenced the study of medicine under John Logue, where he remained for one year, after which he entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, from which institution he graduated in 1865. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Forty-fifth Regiment Tennessee Infantry. He was appointed surgeon in his regiment, and afterward commissioned as hospital steward. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Jonesboro, Atlanta, Murfreesboro, Franklin and others. He returned home in May, 1865, and began practicing medicine. November, 1865, he bought 112 acres in the Twenty-second District, a part of the old homestead, where he has since lived. November, 1867, he wedded Martha (Rogers) Carver, born in Wilson County in 1845, and to them were born five children: Alice A., James 0., Andrew 0., Viola G. and Lula B. Mrs. Eskew had one child, Jonas, by her first husband. Dr. Eskew is one of the leading surgeons of Wilson County, and bears an unsullied reputation. He and wife are members of the Christian Church. The Goodspeed Histories of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford & Marshall Counties of Tennessee, Woodward & Stenson, Copyright 1971, page 1091.

John married Martha Catherine Rogers 14 Nov 1867, Wilson County, Tennessee. Martha (daughter of William James Rogers and Elizabeth Ann Baird) was born 16 Nov 1845, Wilson County, Tennessee; died 24 Mar 1925, Wilson County, Tennessee; was buried , Cedar Grove Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Alice married Monroe A. Wright 10 Jan 1909, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

James married Hattie B. Kittrell 12 Dec 1894, Wilson County, Tennessee. Hattie was born 29 Jan 1875, Wilson County, Tennessee; died 8 Oct 1899, Wilson County, Tennessee; was buried , Sandy Eskew Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

James married Callie Seay Young 31 Oct 1909, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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"A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans", Will T. Hale and Dixon L. Merritt, 1913, The Lewis Publishing Company, pp. 1277-1279

A. OSCAR ESKEW. The Eskew family has furnished Wilson county, Tennessee, prominent physicians for three generations. The first representative of the family in Tennessee was Dr. Andrew Eskew, a native of North Carolina, who came to this section with the early tide of immigration from the old North State and was one of the first physicians in Wilson county, where he thereafter continued to practice until his death. His son, Dr. John C. Eskew, one of the best known and esteemed men of Wilson county, has been a successful medical practitioner in this county for the remarkable period of fifty-one years, and his grandson is he whose name initiates this review and who in every respect is most worthy upholding the honor and professional prestige of the name he bears.
Dr. John C. Eskew, above mentioned, was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, in March, 1841, and during the more than half-century of his professional labors and his long life as a citizen of this community has so ordered his course as to command a secure place in the esteem of his fellowmen and to permit his name to go down in history supported by all the attributes of a well spent life and an honorable career. He has always enjoyed a large practice and is a member of both the Wilson county and the Tennessee State medical societies. At the opening of the Civil war he was appointed regimental surgeon for the Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry and served in that position and with that command throughout that long struggle. He is staunch Democrat in political belief. He wedded Martha C. Rogers, who was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, in 1846, a daughter of James Rogers, an early settler of Wilson county and during the remainder of his career one of its extensive and successful farmers. Both Dr. and Mrs. Eskew, residents of Lebanon, are members of the Christian church. Five children came to their union and of this family Dr. A. 0. Eskew is third in birth and is one of three yet living.
Dr. A. Oscar Eskew was reared in Lebanon and received his first collegiate training in Cumberland University, graduating from that institution with the class of 1893. He then entered the University of Tennessee, where his progress was most rapid, speedily developing those qualities of mental acquisition and retention so essential to a broad and comprehensive knowledge of the profession he had chosen. So well did he apply himself in this direction that he was graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1897 as salutatorian of his class, as a reward for which high honors he was given charge of the Davidson county asylum for one year. At an early age he had developed those qualities of cool judgment, kindness of heart and strength of mind so essential to the success of a good physician and having now completed his professional training he entered upon the active practice of medicine in Lebanon in connection with his father. This association was continued two years and since then our subject has practiced independently, rising steadily in professional prestige and becoming recognized as an able, conscientious and in every respect reliable practitioner, with a large and increasing clientele.
In 1904 Dr. Eskew was married to Miss Carrie Harris, daughter of Joseph Harris, a native and well known farmer citizen of Wilson county who is also a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. Mrs. Eskew died in 1908. She was a most estimable lady and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Eskew affiliates with the Christian denomination. In politics he is a Democrat. He has served four years as assistant city health officer of Lebanon and keeps abreast with the advances
of his profession as a member of the Wilson county and Tennessee state medical societies and the American Medical Association.

Andrew married Carrie Lena Harris 30 Jun 1904, Wilson County, Tennessee. Carrie (daughter of Joseph Franklin Harris and Louisa Frances Caraway) was born 30 Nov 1882, Wilson County, Tennessee; died 4 Dec 1908, Wilson County, Tennessee; was buried , Cedar Grove Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Andrew married Mattie Lash White 5 May 1915, Wilson County, Tennessee. Mattie was born 4 Dec 1893; died 12 Jun 1927; was buried , Cedar Grove Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Viola married Edgar H. Holloway 22 Sep 1898, Wilson County, Tennessee. Edgar was born 27 Oct 1878; died 2 Jan 1912; was buried , Cedar Grove Cemetery, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Viola married William Allen Aft 1912. [Group Sheet]