DR. ANDREW GULLETT PIONEER
M'KINNEY FAMILY PHYSICIAN AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
Courier
June 14, 1938
Immigrated From Missouri To Texas With Wife and Little Child In Ox Drawn
Wagon—Practiced Profession Here For Thirty Years. Riding Horseback Over
Surrounding Country For Miles With His Old Fashioned "Pill Bags"—Buried By
Masons In Pecan Grove Cemetery—His Two Surviving Children Reside In Denver,
Colorado.
One of the early
day physicians and leading citizens of McKinney was Dr. Andrew Gullett, who
was born, March 14, 1828, and died at his home, in McKinney, July 15, 1893.
This pioneer
Collin County physician and wife came to McKinney, in 1867. They drove all
the way from Missouri in a wagon drawn by oxen. For a good many years, he
rode horseback over the country surrounding McKinney with his old-time "pill
bag."
Dr. Gullett was
a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving under
General Marmaduke. He served in the same hospital with the late Dr. Thos.
Wooten of Austin, Texas, who was the father-in-law of the former Miss Ella
(Newsome) Wooten, native McKinney woman, who now lives in Austin. Dr.
Gullett surrendered in Galveston, Texas.
When he got back
to Missouri, he found his plantation and earthly possessions all swept away,
so he took his wife and little son, Joe, and started for Texas in a wagon,
as stated, drawn by an ox team.
He located in
McKinney, in 1867. His old homeplace is on the corner of South Church and
West Davis Streets, in McKinney, now owned by J. Ed Gibson. He only had five
dollars in money in his pocket when he reached McKinney with his wife and
little son.
Dr. Gullett
served as a physician during the active careers of the late Dr. B. M. E.
Smith, the late Dr. G. A. Foote, the late Dr. T. W. Wiley, the late Dr. J.
E. Gibson and other early day family physicians of McKinney and Collin
County.
He was an active
Mason member of the St. John's Lodge, No. 51, A. F. & A. M. of this city by
whom he was laid to rest in Pecan Grove Cemetery when he died as stated,
July 15, 1893. Everything of moral or educational or material upbuilding
nature for his community or state, he favored and lent his influence to
promote. He was an educated man and a student all of his life.
His wife was a
cultured old school Southern type of woman. She was born, April 26, 1836,
and died, July 24, 1899, and is buried beside her husband in Pecan Grove
Cemetery in McKinney here where they also have three children buried on the
lot with them. Their children buried here were: Joseph A. Gullett, who died
April 19, 1878, at the age of 8 years, 6 months and 9 days old; Mattie
Gullett, who died July 9, 1874, before she was a year old and Tommie Gullett,
who died, May 23, 1874, at the age of 3 years, 1 month and 13 days old.
Dr. Gullett and
wife have two surviving children— Andrew ("Bruzz") Gullett and Miss Lizzie
Gullett, the latter now Mrs. Luther Tallant, 523 Clermont Parkway, Denver,
Colorado. Her brother, "Bruzz" Gullett and she were both born, reared and
educated in McKinney. It will be interesting to the old friends of the
Gullett family, still living in McKinney, to know that "Bruzz" as was
generally known here, has two children. His oldest son in married and the
younger one has just finished high school.
Luther G.
Tallant, husband of Mis Lizzie, was also reared near McKinney. Mr. and Mrs.
Tallant were in the grocery business, owning several stores, in Denver.
However, they have retired from business and now are living a less strenuous
life looking after their real estate property and other interests.
A year ago, they
made a motor trip through the Old South and in the earlier part of the
present spring they made another motor trip through San Antonio, Corpus
Christi, Monterrey, Mexico; Mexico City and many other points of interest,
in Old Mexico and in the south before returning to their home in Denver.
"Bruzz" Gullett
married Miss Alice Kimball of Denison, Texas, and as already stated, they
are the parents of two sons. Their oldest one graduated with honors from the
Colorado A. & M. College. At the present time he is a civil engineer on the
All-American Canal in the state of California and has a promising
professional career before him. He is married and is the father of a pretty
little baby daughter.
Mrs. Luther G.
Tallant is a member of the Colorado Poetry Fellowship, in which group she
has many advantages in the way of intellectual treats. Lectures from eminent
authors and travelers and association with literary people of our great home
city. She has always loved poetry and writes verse of such merit that many
of her poems are printed in the newspapers and magazines of Denver and other
sections of the Western portion of the United States.
Surname Index
Recommended Citation:
"Doctor Andrew Gullett Pioneer,
EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
