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DR. JOHN W. SOSBEE
1877 - 1936


Doctor John W. Sosbee was born in Pope County, Arkansas, in a little farming town called London. He was educated in the schools of Pope County.
His father, Alfred A. Sosbee, was a Baptist minister. Doctor Sosbee was one of ten children. When he reached the age of someone old enough to fight for his country, he enlisted and fought in the Spanish American War.
After the war was over, he entered the State Medical School of Tennessee. After finishing medical school, he came back to his home state and practiced medicine for three years in Ola, Arkansas.
In 1903, he came to Gore, Oklahoma, and started his practice of medicine. He met a Cherokee Indian princess and married her in 1904. She was Lugie Mackey Fields, better known as Pattie. The lived in Gore until 1914. With one girl and three boys, they moved to Webbers Falls. Another girl was born there. After four years, the doctor and his family moved back to Gore. Two more girls joined the family. This made seven children.
In 1928, the Sosbee family moved to Stroud. Doctor Sosbee had an office upstairs in the Hughes Building. He started his practice on April 1, 1928. He died on May 21, 1936.
The Sosbee family was a large one and a happy one.
© Lincoln County Oklahoma History page 1275 - 1276.
Submitted by Juanita Sosbee Lee.


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