OATES DRIVE BEARS NAME of PIONEER COUNTRY DOCTOR
Doctor, pharmacist, veterinarian, farmer, rancher, gardener, businessman and school patron all rolled Into one. That was Counsel David Oates, who came to Dallas County in 1871 as a 20-year-old graduate of Bellview College In New York. He hailed from Alabama.
Dr. Oates, an Important player on the stage of the early
Mesquite-area drama, alluded to several other times elsewhere In this book, settled with his bride, the former Jenny Bird of East Dallas, on 1,000 acres of land he purchased with his father-In-law where LBJ Freeway, Interstate 30, and Barnes Bridge Road now Intersect. The first doctor in the area, Dr. Oates riding on horseback to treat a patient became a familiar sight to farm families of the Duck Creek, Rose Hill, New Hope, Murphree and Tripp communities.
He was regarded as a doctor ahead of his times whose careful research kept him up to date on the latest medical practices. Among books listed in his personal diary, begun March 24, 1871, were The Hair and Its Growth, Garcinema: Diseases and Treat ment, Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Diseases and books on recent discoveries in women's diseases, ear, eye and skin diseases and elaborate notes on delivering babies.
Dr. Oates was a master of remedies. The upper room of his home was "filled with shelves lined with bottles and canisters," according to Mrs. Anne Jones, his granddaughter. "He grew herbs out in the garden and used them to formulate his medicine for patients." The doctor's diary includes recipes for a lotion to treat skin disease and his own adult mouthwash as well as a sheep dip he developed to prevent ticks on his flock. The recipe: "Take good tobacco, 50 Ibs.; sulphur, 10 lbs.; and 100 gallons of water. Put tobacco in cold water and heat to 120 degrees. Apply at this temp., tobacco should be put in a gunny sack and repeat in hot water until strength exhausted. The sulphur should be stirred in after the sack of tobacco is cooked one-half hour or one hour
before use. Keep the vessel covered to prevent evaporation."
This remarkable doctor, only four years after coming to Texas, built Oates School, one of the oldest In Dallas County. Built "for his children and neighbors," as Mrs. Jones explains, the school was Initially taught by the doctor himself. When enrollment grew, he hired a "schoolmarm." The Oates School stood where Dallas
Christian High School is now located and continued In operation until 1908. It was burned by vandals in 1968.
Dr. Oates' diary contains a record of his patients, listing name, age, sex, residence. number of living children. cause of death and age of dead children, childhood diseases (measles. chicken pox. or whooping cough). There is also a record of his business accounts. His average call cost $9.14. In lieu of cash he received cows, hogs, corn. groceries and cotton seed in payment for his services.
Counsel David Oates died of pneumonia in 1889 at age 38. Just prior to his death he wrote advising his younger relatives to " ... seek a useful way to get through this life and be satisfied only when you reach the top." His land was divided between his living children. Proctor. Charles Counsel and Virginia Bird Armstrong.
Like so many country doctors, Dr. Oates contributed generously to the community where he lived and practiced medicine. The North Mesquite area gained in both health and education through the influence of Dr. C.D. Oates. An important street of the area bears his name to remind us of the old-time country doctor.
Home of Dr. Oates which was located on the site of the modern Dallas Christian School (near Mail Lane & Hudson's Way).
Courtesy A Stake In The Prairie, Mesquite, Texas by Mesquite Historical Committee
Contributor: Sheila Allen Morring (46948120) •
Doctor, pharmacist, veterinarian, farmer, rancher, gardener, businessman and school patron all rolled Into one. That was Counsel David Oates, who came to Dallas County in 1871 as a 20-year-old graduate of Bellview College In New York. He hailed from Alabama.
Dr. Oates, an Important player on the stage of the early
Mesquite-area drama, alluded to several other times elsewhere In this book, settled with his bride, the former Jenny Bird of East Dallas, on 1,000 acres of land he purchased with his father-In-law where LBJ Freeway, Interstate 30, and Barnes Bridge Road now Intersect. The first doctor in the area, Dr. Oates riding on horseback to treat a patient became a familiar sight to farm families of the Duck Creek, Rose Hill, New Hope, Murphree and Tripp communities.
He was regarded as a doctor ahead of his times whose careful research kept him up to date on the latest medical practices. Among books listed in his personal diary, begun March 24, 1871, were The Hair and Its Growth, Garcinema: Diseases and Treat ment, Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Diseases and books on recent discoveries in women's diseases, ear, eye and skin diseases and elaborate notes on delivering babies.
Dr. Oates was a master of remedies. The upper room of his home was "filled with shelves lined with bottles and canisters," according to Mrs. Anne Jones, his granddaughter. "He grew herbs out in the garden and used them to formulate his medicine for patients." The doctor's diary includes recipes for a lotion to treat skin disease and his own adult mouthwash as well as a sheep dip he developed to prevent ticks on his flock. The recipe: "Take good tobacco, 50 Ibs.; sulphur, 10 lbs.; and 100 gallons of water. Put tobacco in cold water and heat to 120 degrees. Apply at this temp., tobacco should be put in a gunny sack and repeat in hot water until strength exhausted. The sulphur should be stirred in after the sack of tobacco is cooked one-half hour or one hour
before use. Keep the vessel covered to prevent evaporation."
This remarkable doctor, only four years after coming to Texas, built Oates School, one of the oldest In Dallas County. Built "for his children and neighbors," as Mrs. Jones explains, the school was Initially taught by the doctor himself. When enrollment grew, he hired a "schoolmarm." The Oates School stood where Dallas
Christian High School is now located and continued In operation until 1908. It was burned by vandals in 1968.
Dr. Oates' diary contains a record of his patients, listing name, age, sex, residence. number of living children. cause of death and age of dead children, childhood diseases (measles. chicken pox. or whooping cough). There is also a record of his business accounts. His average call cost $9.14. In lieu of cash he received cows, hogs, corn. groceries and cotton seed in payment for his services.
Counsel David Oates died of pneumonia in 1889 at age 38. Just prior to his death he wrote advising his younger relatives to " ... seek a useful way to get through this life and be satisfied only when you reach the top." His land was divided between his living children. Proctor. Charles Counsel and Virginia Bird Armstrong.
Like so many country doctors, Dr. Oates contributed generously to the community where he lived and practiced medicine. The North Mesquite area gained in both health and education through the influence of Dr. C.D. Oates. An important street of the area bears his name to remind us of the old-time country doctor.
Home of Dr. Oates which was located on the site of the modern Dallas Christian School (near Mail Lane & Hudson's Way).
Courtesy A Stake In The Prairie, Mesquite, Texas by Mesquite Historical Committee
Contributor: Sheila Allen Morring (46948120) •
OATES DRIVE BEARS NAME of PIONEER COUNTRY DOCTOR
Doctor, pharmacist, veterinarian, farmer, rancher, gardener, businessman and school patron all rolled Into one. That was Counsel David Oates, who came to Dallas County in 1871 as a 20-year-old graduate of Bellview College In New York. He hailed from Alabama.
Dr. Oates, an Important player on the stage of the early
Mesquite-area drama, alluded to several other times elsewhere In this book, settled with his bride, the former Jenny Bird of East Dallas, on 1,000 acres of land he purchased with his father-In-law where LBJ Freeway, Interstate 30, and Barnes Bridge Road now Intersect. The first doctor in the area, Dr. Oates riding on horseback to treat a patient became a familiar sight to farm families of the Duck Creek, Rose Hill, New Hope, Murphree and Tripp communities.
He was regarded as a doctor ahead of his times whose careful research kept him up to date on the latest medical practices. Among books listed in his personal diary, begun March 24, 1871, were The Hair and Its Growth, Garcinema: Diseases and Treat ment, Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Diseases and books on recent discoveries in women's diseases, ear, eye and skin diseases and elaborate notes on delivering babies.
Dr. Oates was a master of remedies. The upper room of his home was "filled with shelves lined with bottles and canisters," according to Mrs. Anne Jones, his granddaughter. "He grew herbs out in the garden and used them to formulate his medicine for patients." The doctor's diary includes recipes for a lotion to treat skin disease and his own adult mouthwash as well as a sheep dip he developed to prevent ticks on his flock. The recipe: "Take good tobacco, 50 Ibs.; sulphur, 10 lbs.; and 100 gallons of water. Put tobacco in cold water and heat to 120 degrees. Apply at this temp., tobacco should be put in a gunny sack and repeat in hot water until strength exhausted. The sulphur should be stirred in after the sack of tobacco is cooked one-half hour or one hour
before use. Keep the vessel covered to prevent evaporation."
This remarkable doctor, only four years after coming to Texas, built Oates School, one of the oldest In Dallas County. Built "for his children and neighbors," as Mrs. Jones explains, the school was Initially taught by the doctor himself. When enrollment grew, he hired a "schoolmarm." The Oates School stood where Dallas
Christian High School is now located and continued In operation until 1908. It was burned by vandals in 1968.
Dr. Oates' diary contains a record of his patients, listing name, age, sex, residence. number of living children. cause of death and age of dead children, childhood diseases (measles. chicken pox. or whooping cough). There is also a record of his business accounts. His average call cost $9.14. In lieu of cash he received cows, hogs, corn. groceries and cotton seed in payment for his services.
Counsel David Oates died of pneumonia in 1889 at age 38. Just prior to his death he wrote advising his younger relatives to " ... seek a useful way to get through this life and be satisfied only when you reach the top." His land was divided between his living children. Proctor. Charles Counsel and Virginia Bird Armstrong.
Like so many country doctors, Dr. Oates contributed generously to the community where he lived and practiced medicine. The North Mesquite area gained in both health and education through the influence of Dr. C.D. Oates. An important street of the area bears his name to remind us of the old-time country doctor.
Home of Dr. Oates which was located on the site of the modern Dallas Christian School (near Mail Lane & Hudson's Way).
Courtesy A Stake In The Prairie, Mesquite, Texas by Mesquite Historical Committee
Contributor: Sheila Allen Morring (46948120) •
Doctor, pharmacist, veterinarian, farmer, rancher, gardener, businessman and school patron all rolled Into one. That was Counsel David Oates, who came to Dallas County in 1871 as a 20-year-old graduate of Bellview College In New York. He hailed from Alabama.
Dr. Oates, an Important player on the stage of the early
Mesquite-area drama, alluded to several other times elsewhere In this book, settled with his bride, the former Jenny Bird of East Dallas, on 1,000 acres of land he purchased with his father-In-law where LBJ Freeway, Interstate 30, and Barnes Bridge Road now Intersect. The first doctor in the area, Dr. Oates riding on horseback to treat a patient became a familiar sight to farm families of the Duck Creek, Rose Hill, New Hope, Murphree and Tripp communities.
He was regarded as a doctor ahead of his times whose careful research kept him up to date on the latest medical practices. Among books listed in his personal diary, begun March 24, 1871, were The Hair and Its Growth, Garcinema: Diseases and Treat ment, Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Diseases and books on recent discoveries in women's diseases, ear, eye and skin diseases and elaborate notes on delivering babies.
Dr. Oates was a master of remedies. The upper room of his home was "filled with shelves lined with bottles and canisters," according to Mrs. Anne Jones, his granddaughter. "He grew herbs out in the garden and used them to formulate his medicine for patients." The doctor's diary includes recipes for a lotion to treat skin disease and his own adult mouthwash as well as a sheep dip he developed to prevent ticks on his flock. The recipe: "Take good tobacco, 50 Ibs.; sulphur, 10 lbs.; and 100 gallons of water. Put tobacco in cold water and heat to 120 degrees. Apply at this temp., tobacco should be put in a gunny sack and repeat in hot water until strength exhausted. The sulphur should be stirred in after the sack of tobacco is cooked one-half hour or one hour
before use. Keep the vessel covered to prevent evaporation."
This remarkable doctor, only four years after coming to Texas, built Oates School, one of the oldest In Dallas County. Built "for his children and neighbors," as Mrs. Jones explains, the school was Initially taught by the doctor himself. When enrollment grew, he hired a "schoolmarm." The Oates School stood where Dallas
Christian High School is now located and continued In operation until 1908. It was burned by vandals in 1968.
Dr. Oates' diary contains a record of his patients, listing name, age, sex, residence. number of living children. cause of death and age of dead children, childhood diseases (measles. chicken pox. or whooping cough). There is also a record of his business accounts. His average call cost $9.14. In lieu of cash he received cows, hogs, corn. groceries and cotton seed in payment for his services.
Counsel David Oates died of pneumonia in 1889 at age 38. Just prior to his death he wrote advising his younger relatives to " ... seek a useful way to get through this life and be satisfied only when you reach the top." His land was divided between his living children. Proctor. Charles Counsel and Virginia Bird Armstrong.
Like so many country doctors, Dr. Oates contributed generously to the community where he lived and practiced medicine. The North Mesquite area gained in both health and education through the influence of Dr. C.D. Oates. An important street of the area bears his name to remind us of the old-time country doctor.
Home of Dr. Oates which was located on the site of the modern Dallas Christian School (near Mail Lane & Hudson's Way).
Courtesy A Stake In The Prairie, Mesquite, Texas by Mesquite Historical Committee
Contributor: Sheila Allen Morring (46948120) •
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