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JIM: Dr. J.C. Gose, beloved Adair Co. citizen, died Feb. 4, 1945 By JIM Long-time Adair County citizen and beloved physician Dr. J.C. Gose died 70 years ago today, February 4, 1945. Dr. John Christian "J.C." Gose of Knifley and Columbia Henry Gose, Sr., his wife Hannah, and their two children, Henrietta and Henry, Jr., emigrated from the duchy of Braunschweig (Brunswick), now a part of unified Germany, in 1849 or early 1850 and resided in western Pulaski County, Ky., by the time the 1850 census was taken. Henry, Jr. served for over three years in Company F, First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, Union Army. Three weeks before his discharge in late December, 1864, he married Miss Minerva Jane Eads, a native and resident of Pulaski County. John Christian, better known in Adair County as Dr. Gose, was born in Pulaski County in 1867, the second child and oldest son of Henry & Minerva's four children. (Minerva died in 1875; Henry, Jr. remarried a decade later and fathered four more children.) According to Dr. Gose's obituary in the Adair County News, he attended the Medical School of the University of Louisville and was graduated therefrom in 1892. He then interned for two years before settling in Knifley, where he practiced for over 30 years before removing to Columbia in 1927. The obituary also stated he was a member of the Christian Church "from an early age." These words of praise for Dr. Gose's medical skill (and a bit of gentle wordplay with his name) appeared in the December 21, 1898 edition of the News, four years after his arrival in Knifley: "Most people are inclined to believe that the days of ghosts and witchcraft have passed centuries ago but there still remains a few who yet believe that it takes a silver ball to destroy the witch and that there are yet ghosts stalking about. We are inclined to believe with the minority and we are certain that a Gose was seen in Columbia not many days ago in the shape of a man above the average physically and mentally and a fraction under the man whose head has been whitened by time. He is no hob-goblin but a wide-awake specimen of our generation and in the vicinity of Casey Creek his influence is wonderful, especially with the sick. There are so many ardent admirers of this Gose in that vicinity and his power to relieve suffering has been demonstrated in hundreds of cases where his power and skill have lifted many from death's door."In the summer of 1895, shortly after his arrival in Knifley, Dr. Gose married Rosa Ella Ingram, a 22-year-old belle of that community, she being the daughter of H.B. and Ann Elizabeth Ingram and the sister of long time Columbia businessman W.I. Ingram. To this union, three children were born: Bessie Lee (married Mont J. Williams); Nellie A. (married William Kelly King); and Ollie Jane (married Stonewall Dohoney, Jr., Sam Barbee, and Edgar Hollis Ford). As did most of the doctors of the county, Dr. Gose belonged to the Adair County Medical Society and on occasion, he presented papers at the gatherings of that august body. For example, at the meeting held in Columbia in June 1906, his topic was "Emphysema" and in January 1908, he spoke about diphtheria. In the summer of 1914, the Knifley correspondent to the News light-heartedly remarked, "Dr J.C. Gose has a new auto, and oh my how he rides." Quite possibly, the purchase of the vehicle was precipitated by an incident some months earlier when the good doctor's horse ran away and he "in some way [got] his arm entangled in the buggy wheel..." but managed to escape serious injury. An entry in the Knifley newsletter in the June 21, 1921 edition of the paper noted Mrs. Mont Williams and her little daughter Lorine, then five years old, had recently visited Mrs. Williams' parents, the Goses. Seventy-four years later, in June,1995, just a few months before her passing, Lorine Williams Bernard, then a resident of Russell Springs, fondly recalled visits to her grandparents' home in Knifley and mentioned her grandfather's small office where he diagnosed and treated ailments and injuries, and where (in the fashion of the day) he both prescribed and dispensed drugs. Mrs. Gose died in January 1929, less than two years after they moved to Columbia. Dr. Gose continued to practice there for a number of years before his death on February 4, 1945 at St. Joseph's infirmary in Louisville. Their remains are interred in the Columbia City Cemetery. This word sketch first appeared as a guest article in Mike Watson's "Looking Back" newspaper column in February 2014. This story was posted on 2015-02-04 17:30:09
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