The Lindale Times (Lindale, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1992 Page: 4 of 16

                                
Lifestyles
Page 4 - The Times, Thursday, February 13,1992
High Profiles: Leaders Who Have Made A Difference
Present: Frank Guild
Past: Dr. George Matthews
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Editor's Note: The "Present”
High Profile is meant to bring to
the attention of Lindalites praise
worth bestowing on one of its own
who contributes time and energy
to make a difference in our lives in
Lindale.
plans to rebuild.
Frank went to work for a Tyler
company that manufactured
brass for plumbing. From there
he became a manufacturer’s rep-
resentative for them as well as
other such business which he
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Favorite Book: The Works of
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(See GUILD...Page 13)
Editor's Note: The "Past” High
Profile is meant to remember one
of Lindale's former residents and
community-minded folk who
made a difference and who should
not be forgotten.
By BETTY BURRIS
Garden Valley was a quaint,
sparsely settled village in the mid
1800’s, little more than wilder-
ness. Dr. George Washington
Matthews sometimes had to
travel 20 miles or more to see a
patient. But this was no hardship
for Dr. Matthews who grew up
during a time when our country
was growing by leaps and
bounds.
Dr. Matthews was bom March
8, 1827 where the city of Bir-
mingham, Alabama now exists.
In 1838, his father moved the
family to San Augustine County,
Texas and in 1845 they moved to
Nacogdoches County.
Following the death of his fa-
therin 1854, Dr. Matthews came
to Larissa in Cherokee County.
It was at Larissa College that he
was formally educated and where
he met his future bride, Miss
Eliza Killough.
Fortunately for Dr. Matthews,
Miss Eliza was one of only a few
survivors of the brutal Killough
massacre the Indians carried out
in 1838.
The couple had one son and
two daughters.
Dr. Matthews, from the earli-
est age, had always been an avid
reader and through his studies he
acquired an excellent knowledge
of things. Wanting to contribute
in his own way, Dr. Matthews
monument to Dr. Matthews and
his many contributions to the
area.
Actively involved as a Mason
and an honorary member of the
Woodmen of the World, Dr.
Matthews shared his knowledge
and talents with others to make a
better place for all to live. He
reached the age of 80 and was
loved and honored by the people
of Garden Valley and Smith
County and enjoyed the esteem
of people of all ranks and profes-
sions.
Dr. Matthews suffered a
heart attack and died March 28,
1907. He was buried in the Gar-
den Valley Cemetery. His be-
loved Eliza died January 1, 1925.
The Matthews family plot is sur-
rounded by a beautiful iron fence.
(Editor’s Note:) Swan resident
Audrey Jean Cannon and her
brother, Lindale resident Jack
Gilbert, are the great-great grand-
children of Dr. Matthews.
Also, last week’s article should
have identified Cecil Earl Can-
non, Jr. as being the great-grand-
son of Dr. Horatio Tate.
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He married Arlene Crook
Watkins, and they have one son,
Dr. John Watkins who practices
dentistry in Lindale. John’s wife
Linda recently became Dean of
Humanities and Social Studies
at Tyler Junior College, Frank’s
granddaughter Kerry is a student
at Trinity University, and her
sister Candice is a junior at Rob-
ert E. Lee High School.
Frank wrote two books, A Jour-
ney To The Far Shore and Ac-
tion of the Tiger, nonfiction that
dealt with airborne operations of
the Air Force during World War
n,
In Lindale Frank was instru-
mental in the building of not one
but both nursing homes.
“I was one of the original
groups that built Lindale Nurs-
ing Center, then Georgia Crook
and I helped build Colonial Nurs-
ing Center in 1985 after the state
determined that Lindale needed
another nursing home,” stated
Frank.
Frank was to undertake another
large project after he and Arlene
attended a memorial service 12
years ago in Arnhem and was
inspired by a museum curator to
build an American museum on
Dutch soil at the sight of an
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By ANITA SHEPPARD
Temple, Texas, was the birth-
place of Frank Guild, the son of
Frank and Ethel Guild. Palestine
became Frank’s home at age 12,
the place where he would gradu-
ate from high school in 1925.
He worked for two years for
IGN Railroad (Southern Pacific)
before he and a friend headed
east to attend college. Frank first
attended George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.,
and then he headed to New York
City to attend Columbia Univer-__continued for the next 30 years,
sity for one-and-a-half years.
“The depression hit, and I had
to return home, “ recalled Frank.
“My dad was in the cotton busi-
ness, and President Franklin
Roosevelt had all the farmers
plow up their cotton, “ he said
adding that the President or-
dered cattle to be slaughtered as
well under the plan of the New
Deal to help regenerate new busi -
ness and boost the economy.
Back in Texas, Frank and his
dad opened a feed and seed store
in Tyler in 1931 named Frank
Guild and Son. He continued to
work there until the day after the
attack on Pearl Harbor, Frank
enlisted in the Air Force and was
gone for four years.
When he returned in 1944, he
found that their store had burned
down and that his dad had no
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DR. GEORGE MATTHEWS
volunteered in 1846 under Albert
Sidney Johnston to serve in the
Mexican War.
Following his experiences in
the war, Dr. Matthews decided
on the medical profession as a
career. He began his medical
studies in 1857 and practiced two
years in Larissa before moving
to Garden Valley. He continued
his medical studies and gradu-
ated from the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of Louisi-
ana, now Tulane, in 1871.
It was a golden time of recon-
struction following the Civil War
and Dr. Matthews was honored
with being chosen as representa-
tive of his county and stood no-
bly with others in the heroic fight
for Texas. The doctor always
remembered those days with
pleasure.
Dr. Matthews began purchas-
ing land in Smith County in 1865
and bought numerous acres in
the Garden Valley area. It was in
this scenic valley that the
Matthews home was built be-
tween 1873 and 1875. The old
home remains standing in the
Garden Valley community, a
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FRANK GUILD
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The Liberation Museum 1944
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opened its doors in 1986 attract-
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In Lindale in the ’70s and early
’80s Frank was the Republican
Pct. 19 chairman, and Frank
added, “I’m proud that Lindale
has become majority Republi-
can in its voting public.”
Frank is proudest of his contri-
butions to Lindale in his work to
help put together two nursing
homes that have become home
to many of his friends and rela-
tives in his and Arlene’s home-
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