COUNTRY DOCTOR
60 YEARS IN PRACTICE OAKMAN, Dec. 1. Dr. Hugh Watson Stephenson, now in liis sixtieth year ol' practice, is Alabama’s outstanding example of the vanishing country doctor. Dr. Stephenson, in his late eighties, still is active, practising in three counties around Oakman, but has “just about given up night practice.” He has brought into the world three generations in many of the families. * When the citizens of Oakman recently presented Dr. Stephenson with a loving cup in appreciation of his “long service,” tile aged doctor exclaimed modestly: “I don't deserve that. People are too good to me.” Dr. Stephenson was born in Arkansas, His father, also a doctor, died when lie was a child, so he moved to Lawrence county, Ala„. where he was reared by his grandfather.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20141, 10 January 1940, Page 10
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