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- Alabama, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1814-1935
Name: O L Shivers Jr
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 25 Nov 1875
Marriage Place: Perry, Alabama, USA
Spouse: Minnie Cocke
MEMORIAL RECORD OF ALABAMA, Madison, Wis, Brant & Fuller, 1893, pgs 796-798:
DR. OFFA LUNSFORD SHIVERS -- This able physician was born at his present place of residence, Alabama, U.S., Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties, 1809-1920
Name: O L Shivers Jr
Gender: Male
Spouse: Minnie Cocke
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 25 Nov 1875
Marriage Place: Perry
Performed By: Minister of Gospel
Surety/Perf. Name: E T Winkler
OSPage: 612
Marion, Perry county, Ala., May 24, 1849, and is a son of the late Dr. Offa Lunsford Shivers of the same place. The younger, Offa L., graduated from Howard college of Marion, June 27, 1867, receiving the B.S.degree and for a brief period thereafter taught school at Hickory, Miss. On his return to Alabama he farmed for three years near his native city, but failing health caused his relinquishment of agriculture. He then went under a course of medical instruction under Dr. E.B. Thompson, and having fully prepared himself for higher study, entered Tulane university at New Orleans, La. from the medical department of which institution he graduated in 1873. He first practiced at a country seat, in Perry county, and later, for nine years practiced at Newbery, Hale county. In 1885, he returned to Marion to reside permanently, and here he enjoys an extensive and
still growing patronage. He is especially skilled in the treatment of disorders of the ear, eye, and throat, having taken two post-graduate courses in the study of these affections, and he also makes a speciality of the diseases of women and children, in the treatment of which he has made an enviable reputation. In 1886, Dr. Shivers was instrumental in effecting the organization of the Alabama Surgical and Gynecological association at Birmingham, Ala., from which, in 1887, was evolved the Southern Surgical and Gynecological association. He is a member of Perry county Medical society, and was for seven years, a couselor, of the Medical association of the state of Alabama. He is, also, a member of the American Medical association, which he joined at its meeting at Chicago, in 1887. He hold membership also in the Masonic order, and, as a Knight of Pythias, has twice been a representative to the grand lodge. Dr. Shivers was happily married in 1875 to Miss Minnie Cocke, daughter of Hon. Jack F. Cocke, once a state senator from Perry county, the result of the union being two sons and three daughters. The doctor is not only progressive in his profession, but also as a citizen. In 1888, he devised a treatment for hemorrhoids, which dispenses with the use of the knife, causes no hemorrhage and acts without giving pain, and has the endorsement of many able physicians and surgeons as the best appliance ever invented for the purpose. In 1889, the doctor and his brother, E.D. Shivers, purchased the Marion oil mills, which they have hense operated as an oil mill, ginnery, cotton press and grist mill. His enterprise is limited only by the amount of his capital. The doctor is strictly moral in his habits, and, with his wife, is a member of the Baptist church. He is much interested in educational matters, and is a member of the board oftrustees of the public schools. Source: Shivers Family Legends
Dr Offa Lunsford Shivers
BIRTH 15 May 1849
Alabama, USA
DEATH 4 Jan 1909 (aged 59)
Alabama, USA
BURIAL
Marion Cemetery
Marion, Perry County, Alabama, USA
MEMORIAL ID 177320032 ? View Source
Family members:
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1849 - 1909 (59 years)
