Dr. J. E. (Japheth Edward) Rawls Sr.

  General Notes:

The WWI Draft Registration for Japheth Edward Rawles records his date of birth as February 15, 1875. He is a Surgeon at the Lake View Sanitarium in Suffolk, VA and is married to Mrs. Emma H. Rawls (sic). They live at 605 Broad Street in Suffolk. His physical description is medium height with a stout build with blue eyes and dark hair.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschs/cemetery/NansemondSuffolk/CH-PQR.pdf
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA
Dr. Japeth Edward Rawls Sr.
02-15-1875 - 10-14-1938
S/O Luther & Mary Elizabeth Darden Rawls

Emmaline Copeland Holland Rawls
09-03-1882 - 09-19-1967 Nansemond Co.,Va.
D/O Charles Everett and Susanna Jones Holland
Block M, Lot 1
O-Dr.J.E.Rawls


Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Lewis Historical Publishing, New York
1915
Volume V
Pages 679 & 680
Japheth Edward Rawls, M. D. Suffolk, the capital of Nansemond county, Virginia, with its railroads, peanut factories, saw mills, car shops, iron and brass works, knitting mills, etc., is a point demanding the ablest surgical skill to cope with the many mechanical appliances that constantly menace the persons of those employed in their operation. Since the year 1900 Dr. Rawls has been specializing in surgery at Suffolk, and during the fifteen years that have since elapsed, has ministered with firm touch and unfailing skill to many of these accidental cases, in addition to a large practice in general surgery and medicine. His reputation has spread far beyond local confines and his name is a familiar one in the medical world, through high official position in medical societies and frequent articles in medical journals.

Dr. Rawls is a grandson of Elisha and Margarett ("Peggy") (Jones) Rawls, of Holy Neck, Virginia, whose sons, Japheth and Luther, served in the Confederate army and both received wounds in battle. Luther Rawls, father of Dr. Rawls, was born at Holy Neck, Virginia, June 2, 1835. He spent his active life there, engaged in farming, and yet sojourns on the old farm, rounding out a long, eventful and useful life. He was a private and flag bearer in Company K, Forty-first Regiment Virginia Infantry, was severely wounded in the shoulder, but after recovery returned to the army, serving until the close of the war. He married, May 30, 1867, Mary Elizabeth Darden, born at Holy Neck, Virginia, November 16, 1839, daughter of William and Nancy (Langston) Darden. Her brother, Dempsey Darden, was also a Confederate soldier, serving in the Forty-first Regiment Virginia Infantry. Children of Luther and Mary E. Rawls: 1. Jesse P., born June 28, 1868; a cotton broker of Enterprise, Alabama; married Maggie Jones; five children. 2. Rosa M., born June 19, 1870; married E. S. Norfleet, farmer, of Holland, Virginia. 3. Willie Nancy Darden, born September 8, 1872; married J. Vivian Gathing, farmer, of Gates county, North Carolina; two children. 4. Japheth Edward, of whom further. 5. Mary Sue, born March 11, 1877; married Ernest H. Williams. of Smithfield, Virginia; an attorney; two children. 6. David Luther, born July 5, 1879 ; physician, associated with his brother, Japheth E. Rawls; a graduate of the University Medical College of Richmond, 1908.

Dr. Japheth Edward Rawls was born at Holy Neck, Nansemond County, Virginia, February 15, 1875. After preparatory courses in the public schools, he entered Elon College, at Elon, North Carolina, in the fall of 1889, and was graduated there from with the degree of A. B., with high honor in the class of 1896. He then took thorough courses in medicine and surgery in the best colleges in the country, receiving his degree of M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in 1899. He began practice in Suffolk, Virginia, January 15, 1900 and has been in continuous practice there until the present date (1915). His post-graduate study included a special course at the Lying-in-Hospital of New York, the Polyclinic Medical College of New York City, the Post Graduate Medical School of Chicago, and the Illinois School of Electro Therapeutics. Thus thoroughly equipped, Dr. Rawls ministers to a large clientele, specializing in surgery, a branch of his profession in which he is most skillful.

Dr. Rawls was one of the founders of Lake View Hospital Sanitarium (Inc.) at Suffolk, 1905, and has been surgeon to that institution since its foundation. He was city physician of Suffolk for six years, and is physician and surgeon to the Nansemond County Alms House. He is the assistant local surgeon of the Seaboard Railway at Suffolk. Notwithstanding the heavy demands of his private and public practice, Dr. Rawls devotes a share of his time to the general interests of his profession, holding membership in the Seaboard Air Line Railway Surgical, Virginia Medical, Southern Medical, American Medical, Seaboard Medical, and Virginia South Side Medical societies; has been president of the two latter named and interested in the work of all. His contributions to the literature of his profession are highly valuable articles that from time to time appear in the leading medical journals, attracting widespread attention. He is a member of the Christian church (O'Kelly) and serves on the music committee of the church. In political faith he is a Democrat, but the constant demands of his profession preclude all active political interest.

Dr. Rawls married, November 24, 1908, Emma Copeland Holland, born at Holy Neck, Virginia, September 3, 1882, daughter of Charles E. and Sue (Jones) Holland, and niece of Congressman E. E. Holland. Children, all born in Suffolk, Virginia: Ann Pretlow, born November 9, 1909; Mary Sue, born September 19, 1911; Japheth Edward Jr., born April 13, 1914.

  Research Notes:

The 1880 Federal Census for Holy Neck, Nansemond Co., VA, District 54, page 73B, dated June 1, 1880 records Japheth E. Rawls (5) living with his parents Luther (45) and Mary Elizabeth (40) Rawls and siblings Jesse P. (12), Margarett R. (10), Nancy W. (8), Mary Susana (3), and David L. (11/12 - July).

Emily C. Daughtrey wrote of Marcella's marriage to Jason Holland and their daughter, Emmeline, who married a Dr. J. E. Rawls. The 1920 census provides some documentation for this: The 1920 Federal Census for Suffolk (Independent City), Ward 3, Virginia, District 220, page 256A dated June 10, 1920 records Dr. Japheth E. Rawles (45) with his wife Emma (37) and children Anne (10), Mary (8), Japheth E. Jr. (5), Emiline (3 8/12), and Charles (2 1/12) living at 605 Broad Street. Also in the household is the widow Marcella A. Holland (73). Marcella is listed as a "boarder" and is possibly Emma's mother; however, additional research below documents that Jason and Marcella had no children. Perhaps Emily Daughtrey knew of this "Japheth and Emma Rawles" and thought that Marcella A. Holland was Emma's mother ... see general notes for Dr. Japheth E. Rawls Sr. for biographical sketch that describes both Japheth Rawls and Emma Holland's parents and grand parents ... Japheth's parents are Luther Rawls and Mary Elizabeth Darden who were married on May 30, 1867 at Holy Neck, Virginia ... Emma's parent are Charles E. Holland and Sue Jones. Although my great aunt Emily C. Daughtrey was in error as to Emmiline's parentage, I will leave Emmeline Copeland Holland as a daughter of Jason and Marcella out of respect to her memory.

See general notes on his wife for 1930 census facts.

J. married Emmeline (Emma) Copeland Holland, daughter of Jason P. Holland and Marcella (Marcelon) Holland, on 24 Nov 1908 in Virginia. (Emmeline (Emma) Copeland Holland was born on 3 Sep 1882 in Nansemond Co, VA, died on 19 Sep 1967 in Suffolk City, [Nansemond Co., ] VA and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA..)