Individual Details

From the "Stafford Stringfellow Story" by Charlotte Stafford. Dr. Forsyth was born on a farm in Lincoln county, Tenn. and was raised there. He brought his brothers and sisters to Texas and married Lucy Jane Loving there. He settled in LJ's farm. He was considered a "saddle bag doctor; he learned medicine at Louisville, Kentucky. He had nine children, Adelaide being his first. He practiced medicine in Morris county (known as Titus county in the 18-hundreds) prior to the civil war. He served in the Civil War as a surgeon. After the war he returned to his home in Morris county where he continued his practice of medicine. He and his wife owned and operated a large farm where they had some agricultural lands as well as cattle land. He purchased the farm from his father-in-law, Migginson Loving. They began their married life in a log house, located at the same place that is now the residence of his grandson L. J. Forsyth. He is buried in the Loving cemetery section of Spring Hill cemetery, Morris county, Texas.

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Birth	29 Jul 1815	Lincoln county, Tennessee
Marriage	3 Jun 1858	Morris county, TX - Lucy Jane Jordan Loving
Death	3 Jul 1892	He died in a log house on the site of LJ's house. - Morris county, TX
Burial		Spring Hill Cemetery, Morris County, TX

Spouse	Lucy Jane Jordan Loving (1837 - 1917)
Child	Adelaide "Addie" Forsyth (1860 - 1883)
Child	Harriet Ann Forsyth (1861 - 1880)
Child	Deleua Cairo Forsyth (1863 - 1884)
Child	Ira Page Forsyth (1867 - 1950)
Child	Alice Lee Forsyth (1867 - 1889)
Child	James Polk Loving Forsyth (1869 - 1960)
Child	Jedediah Morris Forsyth (1872 - 1936)
Child	Odessa Virginia Forsyth (1875 - 1959)
Child	Charlie Migginson Forsyth (1877 - 1972)

Father	James P. Forsyth (1787 - 1838)
Mother	Harriet Angeline Yeargan (1787 - 1835)