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Committee on the Texan Declaration of Independence 143
Hon. John Catron
Nashville Tenn.
Galveston Oct. 5, 1841
My dear Sir,
To you and your wife I bequeath the fathership and protection
of my dear daughter Anne-Should she be so unfortunate as to
lose her mother please adopt her and raise her as your child--
and oblige your frd
Geo. C. Childress
Hon. John Catron
Tenn.
Letters written to each one of the above named gentlemen and to
be forwarded by same mail with the originals.-
Oct. 7.
Col. Childress body was examined'" about four hours after death.
etc., etc., medical staff.'94
Dr. Smith, on the same day, wrote Dr. T. R. Jennings,195 of
"'For the above letters and Journal entry, see the Ashbel Smith
Papers, Archives, University of Texas.
"Dr. Smith, reported in his autopsy, that Childress's health (contrary
to some Texas writers), as indicated from the autopsy, was normal.
See Ashbel Smith Papers, University of Texas.
"'Thomas Reid Jennings, M. D., was a son of Rev. Obediah Jennings,
D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Dr. Jen-
nings received his degree from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, and commenced the practice of medicine in Nashville
in 1835. For thirty years he was the most prominent physician in the
State. He was twice a member of the State Senate, and declined a
nomination -for Congress. He was a man of varied talents and accom-
plishments. In 1854 he was made Professor of Physiology in the Medi-
cal Department of the University of Nashville, and was afterwards trans-
ferred to the chair of anatomy. He died in 1874, in the sixty-ninth year
of his age.
J. Woolridge (ed., assisted by John H. Callender, M. D., and J. P.
Dake, M. D.), "Medical History," in History of Nashville, Tennessee
(Nashville, 1890), 528.
Clayton, as cited, 279.
Ecclesiastical History
Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church of Nashville.-
. . Rev. O. Jennings, D. D., of Washington, Pa., was installed the
next pastor, in April, 1828. Through his exertions some of the prominent
gentlemen of the city became members of the church. He died at this
charge, January 12, 1832, after increasing its membership to -one hun-
dred and sixteen.
Clayton, "City of Nashville," in History of Davidson County, Ten-
nessee, 312.
Rev. Obediah Jennings was a finely educated and talented man, hav-
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