Obituary:  Amos R. Graham   Jackson Times - Feb. 28, 1963
 Sept. 5, 2003

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Amos R. Graham, 96, whose long career included stints as a doctor,
lawyer, merchant, and dentist's assistant although he spent little time
in school, died at 10:45 a.m. Wed. Feb. 20, at St. Joseph Hospital,
Lexington.
 
A native of Wolfe County, Graham moved to Cynthiana with his family in
the 1930's and opened a shop.  He retired as a merchant about 20 years
ago and the shop now is run by his daughter, Mrs. Opsa Guthrie.
 
It was as a youth in Holly, a mountainous area of Wolfe County, Graham
was as assistant to Uncle Kelse Holland, the only blacksmith and 
dentist in the area.  Graham held the victims' heads while Uncle Kelse pulled
teeth with homemade forceps.
 
Graham became a doctor and later a lawyer in the informal way it was
sometimes done 75 or 80 years ago.  He learned doctoring by assisting a
Fort Worth, Tex., doctor and reading his books when he was 19.
 
For five years Graham passed out pills in Oklahoma before an incident -
a strong dose of calomel for an ungrateful Indian chief -scared him out
of medicine.
 
Later as a merchant in Breathitt County, Graham found his store the
center of a gun battle when two feuding families - both customers of 
his - opened fire on each other.  Then he turned to law, and later to real
estate.
 
He was a member of Jackson Methodist Church.
 
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Addie Prater Graham, Cynthiana; 
another daughter, Mrs. John Kirby, New York City, and a son, O.A. Graham,
Washington, D.C.
 
Funeral and burial were in Cynthiana.

Submitted by: 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays

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