Ferguson, Joseph Hart

Passed: 1955-10-12

Age: 76

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Obituary Date: 1955-10-21

Information: Dr. Joseph Hart Ferguson, 76, who began the practice of his profession at Cottageville nearly half a century ago, is dead,  The end came to the eminent physician and citizen at his home in Ravenswood last Wednesday night and was the direct result of a stroke which he suffered several weeks ago.  He had lived in semi-retirement during the past five years when he moved from Middlebourne to Ravenswood, but he often said that a physician could never quite retire because as long as people came to them for help they would continue to do what they could.  That is exactly what he did.  He began his practice at Cottageville after graduating from the University of Louisville Medical College in 1911.  He later practiced in Wheeling, served overseas in France with the Army Medical Corps during World War I and after his return went to Middlebourne where for 36 years he practiced his chosen profession.  He was born at Cottageville on Christmas Day, 1878 and was a son of James and Virginia Price Ferguson, pioneer residents of that section of Jackson County.  The funeral service was held Saturday at the Walton Memorial Methodist Church in Ravenswood with Rev. Melvin Risinger and Rev. Eugene Modlin officiating and the burial was in the Blaine Memorial Cemetery at Cottageville.  Survivors are his wife, Etta Harrison Ferguson; two sons, Robert of Frederick, Maryland and Donald of Ripley; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert Phillips of Oil Springs, Ky., and Mrs. Robert Fletcher of Middlebourne; two brothers, Attorney H. C. Ferguson of Charleston and Col. L. J. Ferguson of Huntington, and three sisters, Mrs. Theodore Holcomg, Mrs. Howard Keith and Mrs. Lockney Keith all of Fola, Clay County.      from the Jackson Herald, March 22, 1901 -  On the 7th____, at Athens, Ohio, the mayor of that city married Mr. Joseph Ferguson, second son of Ex Justice Joseph Ferguson, and Miss Etta Harrison, adopted daughter of Dr. and Mrs. B. E. Harrison of Cottageville.  The young lady had left home ostensibly for Buckhannon College to brighten up in music, in which she had graduated at that institution.  After the marriage the couple went to Morgantown, where the groom is taking a course in law.  Parental sanction in the marriage had not been obtained.