John L. Shumate
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
John L. Shumate, M.D., was born in Manchester, Mo., September 3, 1832 and is a son of Rev. Walker D. and Sarah (Williams) Shumate, both natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather came from Wales, and settled in Virginia, where he resided until his death, at the age of ninety-eight years. The maternal grandfather immigrated to the United Stated from England. Rev. Walker D. Shumate came to Missouri in 1830, and located in St. Louis County, where he afterward resided. He was one of the most popular Methodist ministers in this section of the country. He died in 1872. His wife died in 1837. They were the parents of eight children. Those living are Dr. John L., Mrs. Susan Butler, Charles (of Troy, MO.), Mrs. Mollie Chapman (of St. Louis) and James. The subject of this sketch remained with his father, attending school, until he was twenty-one years of age. However, he began the study of medicine when but nineteen years of age, and in the winter of 1855 graduated in the medical department of the St. Louis University. The next fall he came to Sikeston, and began practicing his profession, and is now the oldest resident physician of this section of Missouri. He had borne well with the changeable climate and swamps, being yet a well- preserved man. At the time of his location at Sikeston, Dr. Brown, who afterward became lieutenant-governor of Missouri, was the only physician near there. As the country became more thickly settled Dr. Shumate's practice increased, and soon extended many miles around Sikeston. In 1866 he was united in marriage with Lucinda Magee, a native of Missouri. To them were born five children: Sallie, Mollie, Henrietta, Gracie A. and Walker A. The doctor is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, who died in 1876, was also a devoted member of the same church Dr. Shumate has never been an aspirant for office, but has attended strictly to his profession, and by so doing has won many warm friends, and has accumulated enough property to spend his last days in ease and comfort.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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