WINSTON BAIRD MARKHAM, M. D., who made a creditable reputation as a member of the medical fraternity of Denison, for the work of which he was well qualified by thorough preparatory training, left behind him an honorable name and the record of excellent professional service. His birth occurred in Princeton, Kentucky, on the 24th of June, 1859, and he passed away on the 12th of February, 1902. His parents were Winston and Ann Mary (Throckmorton) Markham, and in her maidenhood the mother bore the name of Shepherdson. When eleven years of age Winston Markham came with his father to Texas, his mother having died about three years previous. The family home was established first in McKinney, Collin county, where the father followed the occupation of farming for a number of years but now makes his home in Denison, where he is living retired.

Having acquired his elementary education in the public schools, Dr. Markham became a student in Vanderbilt College in Tennessee and was graduated from the medical department with the class of 1878. He then entered upon the practice of his profession in Nashville, where he remained for a year, when he opened an office in Decatur, Texas, spending nine years in that city. In 1884 he pursued a post-graduate course at New Orleans, Louisiana, and in 1898 he again did post-graduate work in surgery in Chicago medical universities. Thus he kept in touch with the progress of the profession, and reading and original investigation also added to his knowledge. In 1890 he came to Denison, where he opened an office and practiced with success up to the time of his death. During the last two years of his life he was also associated with the late Dr. J. L. Jones in the conduct of a drug store on West Main street in addition to his regular practice.

Dr. Markham was married twice. In 1882 he wedded Nannie Wootters, at Crockett, Texas, and there were by that marriage two children, of whom one is living, John W., whose birth occurred in Decatur, Texas. The wife and mother died in December, 1885, and in 1886 Dr. Markham was married to Miss Ada Hockett, of San Antonio, Texas, a daughter of David and Mary F. (Howater) Hockett, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Virginia. 

Ada Hockett
2nd wife of Dr. Markham

By the second marriage there were three children: Baird H., who was born in Decatur, Texas, in 1887; Edith Marie [Patton], whose birth occurred in Decatur in 1889; and Lois Lowrance [Malone], who was born in Denison in 1897.

Dr. Markham was a member of the board of health of Denison and for three years prior to his death served as a member of the school board of the city. In politics he was a Democrat and was ever interested in the welfare of Denison, co-operating in many progressive movements. He was conscientious in the performance of all of his professional duties, realizing fully the obligations that devolved upon him in this connection, and in his home was a devoted husband and father, while among his friends he was known as a man who could be relied upon in times of need. He displayed many sterling traits of character that won him the regard and warm friendship of all with whom he was associated. As a diagnostician his skill was unusual, and in consultation and in operative work he took a high place among the surgeons and physicians of his section of Texas.

Source: Paddock, B. B. History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1906.

 

NOTES

1896 Denison City Directory: Winston B. Markahm, physician, over 310 West Main Street; residence at 1007 W. Woodard Street.

1909 Denison City Directory:  Ada Markham (widow of Winston), teacher at High School; residence at 1303 West Walker. Also there are Baird Markham, salesman; Lois, student; and Marie. Also could be 1302 West Walker.

"Residence of Dr. W. B. Markham."
Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., [ca. 1909]. Page 12.

Ada Markham was a teacher at Denison High School. Marie Markham was a member of the Denison High School Class of 1907 and a member of the Raven (DHS literary magazine) staff in May 1907. (Bryant and Hunt, Two School on Main Street)

Raven Staff
1907
Source: Bryant & Hunt, TWO SCHOOLS ON MAIN STREET, fig. 5.8.

Editorial staff, The Raven (DHS literary magazine), May 1907.
Front row: Marie Markham, Floy Haley, Jessie Rennie.
Second row: Clara Blackford, Margaret Munson, Maude Peel, Eunice Strayhorn.
Third row: Woodie Byrn, Carrie Seward, Frances Harnest, Ila Esler. Fourth row: Curt Beck, Eugene Bristol, Fred Morgan, Gerald Sullivan.
Source: Bryant & Hunt, TWO SCHOOLS ON MAIN STREET, fig. 5.9.

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After Dr. Markham's death, his wife Ada remarried before 1920. Her second husband was Norman Chamberlin. They lived in Missouri. Ada died in Maryville, Nordaway County, Missouri, on September 15, 1951.

Major Gen. Baird Hockett Markham Sr. was the first commander of the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. It was a major formation of the Oklahoma Army National Guard from 1920 to 1968. Headquartered mostly in Oklahoma City, the guardsmen fought in both World War II and the Korean War. (Wikipedia "45th Infantry Division (United States)." General Markham died in July 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Edith Marie Markham married Walter Green Patton (1887–1964) and lived in Missouri and New York City. She died in Amarillo, Texas, on August 20, 1977, and was buried there. She had three children.

Lois Lowrance Markham married Albert Chester Malone (1894–?) and lived in St. Francois County, Missouri. She died in San Jose, California, on August 5, 1999, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Texas. Her daughter Lois Marie Malone Pinol was buried there, too.

Fairview Cemetery