Establishing Medical Practice and Family Years

Age (SCG)

Year

Date

Abt

Place (Wythe, VA unless specified)

Event

24

1848

Jun

 

Wytheville

In practice with Dr. Wm. F. Floyd per bill to F. K. Rich

25

1849

4-Feb

 

Wytheville

James Turk Gleaves, Sr: Let Drs. Floyd & Gleaves have Perry, a slave, for one year.

25

1849

5-Sep

 

Bowling Green

Married Maria Louisa Crockett (age: 20 yrs)

25

1849

1-Jan

 

Richmond, VA

John B. Floyd: Governor of Virginia; served in office until 1/16/1852

26

1850

16-Jul

 

Wytheville

Census

26

1850

 

Abt

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Malvina Crockett Gleaves; subject: Coming to visit. (#2350)

26

1850

20-Sep

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: Delegate to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Convention

27

1850

23-Nov

 

Wytheville

Purchased house on Monroe Street from Robert & Joseph Kent for $1500. (Book 18 - 452)

27

1851

25-Jan

 

Wytheville

Director in bank per letter of James Truck to Col. T. J. Boyd

28

1852

1-May

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: Drs. Floyd & Gleaves moved shop to the house opposite the Union Hotel

29

1852

12-Nov

 

Bowling Green

Birth of son: James Lucian Stuart Gleaves

29

1853

7-Mar

 

Washington, D.C.

Jefferson Davis: Secretary of War for President Franklin Pierce; served until 3/7/1857

29

1853

20-Aug

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: office location on Main Street in C. J. Noel's Drug Store, opposite Boyd's Hotel

30

1853

12-Nov

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: Amputation performed by Dr. R. Crockett & S. C. Gleaves

30

1854

24-Jan

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Patrick Ryan; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: $2.27 ½ for medical services & interest for 5 years. (#554)

30

1854

13-Mar

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Lawrence Gulion & Elizabeth Groseclose; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Note for $25 and the recording of payments. (#2279)

30

1854

29-Mar

 

Wytheville

Debt: $40. To settle her debt, Sarah Bryant gave one negro slave named Jane, aged about 30 years and some household furniture to SC Gleaves (Box 107)

30

1854

 

Abt

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Wants father to buy Sarah Percival’s cattle. (#273)

30

1854

17-Jul

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: Consider his brother, Robert, for an appointment to West Point. (#2990)

30

1854

17-Jul

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Fayette McMullen, House of Representatives; subject: Consider his brother, Robert, for an appointment to West Point. (#2990)

30

1854

29-Jul

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: His brother, Robert, is old enough to attend West Point; the previous appointee was too young to attend. (#2990)

30

1854

 

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Malvina Crockett Gleaves; subject: No news from Aunt Margaret, Bob needs to sign West Point letter.. (#282)

30

1854

30-Aug

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Fayette McMullen, House of Representatives; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: Consider Robert Gleaves for an appointment to West Point. (#2990)

30

1854

5-Sep

 

Washington, D.C.

Letter- from: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: It is too late to admit a cadet to West Point this year (#2990)

31

1855

15-Jan

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Fayette McMullen, House of Representatives ; subject: His brother, Robert, is still a candidate for an appointment to West Point. (#2990)

31

1855

20-Feb

 

Cripple Creek

Letter- from: Capt. Robert Harvey Gleaves; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: Acceptance of conditional appointment to West Point. (#2990)

31

1855

16-May

 

Cripple Creek

Death of aunt: Nancy Gleaves (age: 63 yrs) In her will, she left her slaves to her nephews. Her nephews purchased and placed her grave stone.

31

1855

5-Jul

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: Another examination for his brother, Robert, for an appointment to West Point. (#2990)

31

1855

13-Aug

 

Bowling Green

Birth of son: Charles Wythe Gleaves

32

1855

5-Dec

 

 

Marriage of brother George Wythe Gleaves (age:28 yrs) to Isabella Campbell Sanders (age: 28 yrs)

32

1856

 

 

Richmond, VA

Henry A. Wise: Governor of Virginia until 1860; signed death warrant for John Brown

32

1856

11-Mar

 

Cripple Creek

Letter- from: Capt. Robert Harvey Gleaves; to: Jeff Davis, Secretary of War ; subject: Acceptance of conditional appointment to West Point. (#2990)

32

1856

3-May

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves & A. S. Hufford; to: R. Gibboney; subject: Owe $25 & S C Gleaves will pay when due in 1857. (#1423)

32

1856

Jul

Abt

 

Notebook: from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Capt. Robert Harvey Gleaves ; subject: Directions & precautions to get to West Point. (#2719)

33

1857

5-Mar

 

Washington, D.C.

John B. Floyd: Secretary of War for President James Buchanan; served until 12-29-1860; he was accused in the press of having sent large stores of government arms to Federal arsenals in the South in the anticipation of the Civil War.

34

1858

13-Aug

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: George Wythe Gleaves ; subject: $5 due on balance of note. (#1424)

34

1858

Sept

 

Wytheville

Law Suit against Sarah Percival for $300

35

1859

20-Jan

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: Director of Farmers Bank of Virginia

35

1859

12-Mar

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: purchased Noel & Caldwell drug store; consolidated the same with Dr. Brand's Drug Store making one of the largest establishments of its kind in Southwestern VA; Dr. Brand's room opposite the Farmer's Bank is for rent

35

1859

28-Mar

 

Wytheville

Newspaper letter to the editor: setting the record straight on a disturbance

35

1859

2-Jul

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: surgical operation to remove large tumor from a lady's neck

36

1860

28-Jan

 

Wytheville

Newspaper: Drs. Gleaves & Brand have moved business to the Room formerly occupied by Mr. E. McGavock on Main Street, opposite the Court House; James T Gleaves, Jr law ad

36

1860

18-Feb

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: E. S. Martin; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Will give his recommendation to the new school; (back of document) list of amounts due from Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves. (#1402)

36

1860

9-Apr

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: William Pate ; subject: Bill for medical charges & interest $24.36. (#207)

36

1860

27-May

 

Philadelphia, PA, Wytheville, VA

Birth of son: Allen Robert Taylor Gleaves

36

1860

7-Jun

 

Wytheville

Census: family, slave

36

1860

 

 

Philadelphia, PA

Occupied Chair of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; he resigned with Virginia seceded.

37

1861

1-Jan

 

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Cox, Auman & Co.; subject: Check for $31.58. (#1451)