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Dr. George E. Pettey, physician and surgeon, Des Arc, Ark. Dr. Pettey, one of the successful practitioners of Des Arc, was born in Washington County, Tex., on January 16, 1857, and is the son of Dr. F. M. Pettey, a native of Limestone County, Ala. The father was educated at Memphis, Tenn., and afterward located in that State, where he practiced his profession for four years. He then moved to the Lone Star State, located in Washington County, but a few years later moved to Navarro County, Tex., where he practiced his profession until the breaking out of the war. He was surgeon in the army, and had charge of Galveston Hospital, where he remained until the cessation of hostilities. After the war he located in Arkansas, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in Monroe County of that State. He married Miss Sarah A. G. Elliott, in Henderson County, Tenn., in 1848, and the result of this union was the birth of two sons and six daughters. Dr. George E. Pettey came to Arkansas with his father in 1870, attained his growth in Mississippi County, and later began the study of medicine with his father. At the age of fourteen years he entered a drug store, where he remained while studying medicine. He took his first course of lectures at the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in the winter of 1880-81, and took another course in the spring and summer of the last mentioned year. He then passed an examination before the medical board, and began the practice of his profession at Hickman, Mississippi County, Ark., where he remained three years. From there he removed to Golddust, Tenn., where he continued in practice until October, 1887, when he went to Memphis, and took an additional course at Memphis Hospital Medical College, graduating from the same in the spring of 1888. After completing this course he came to Des Arc, Ark., where he is doing an extensive practice. Dr. Pettey is a surgeon of superior skill, bold, but extremely careful, giving personal attention to the most minute details of an operation. His complete success in every operation he has undertaken is sufficient warrant for the general expression that he is fast taking position as one of the leading surgeons of the State. The Doctor makes a specialty of the diseases of women and rectal diseases. He has always been studious, there being few well-known books on medicine he is not acquainted with, and by taking a number of the leading medical journals, both of this country and Europe, keeps constantly up with the times. He was married in Mississippi County, Ark., on December 24, 1879, to Miss Susan C. Lynch, a native of Arkansas, who was reared in Mississippi County, and the daughter of Esq. A. J. Lynch. To this marriage were born four children: Adah L., Mary A., Francis Allen and George E., Jr. They lost their eldest son, Francis Allen, in June, 1888. Dr. Pettey is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is now Worshipful Master of White River Lodge No. 37. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.