Note: the date of death engraved on
the gravestone is in error. The correct
date of death is December 10, 1862.

Born: ~1810
Father: James B. Southall
Mother: Mary Moore Todd
1833 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: VA; thesis: "Dysentery")
02/12/1835 - Married, Mary Frances (Polly) Whitfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA (she died in 1837)
06/25/1837 - Wife, Mary Francis, died
06/10/1847 - Married, Mary Louisa Tazewell,
Richmond, VA (she died in 1851)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Smithfield,
Highland Co, VA
1851 - Wife, Mary Louisa passed away
~1855 - Married, Martha Jefferson Tazwell (she died in 1903)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Smithfield,
Isle of Wight Co, VA
10/31/1861 - Paid $75 by Confederate States
Army "for medical services attending free
negroes, laborers employed at Fort Boykin
[VA] from 30th Sept to 31st Oct"
10/31/1861 to 11/30/1861 - "For medical
services attending free negroes, laborers
employed at Fort Boykin [VA]" paid $75
12/00/1861 - Provided "medical attendance
on hands laboring on battery" at
Fort Boykin for $75/mo
08/02/1862 - Paid $75 "for 1 month medical
attendance [February 1862] on laborers
at Fort Boykin [VA]" and paid $75 "for
1 month medical attendance [March 1862]
of hands employed at Fort Boykin [VA]"
11/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon,
Louisiana Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/10/1862 - Died, Richmond, VA (cause: pneumonia)
12/12/1862 - Obituary in the Richmond Daily
Dispatch, p.2, "Died. Of pneumonia on
Wednesday, 10th inst., at the residence
of Andrew L. Ellett, Dr. James B. Southall,
of Smithfield, VA. His friends and those
of Mr. Ellett are requested to attend his
funeral on Friday, 12th instant, at noon,
from the residence of Mr. Ellett, on
Franklin street, between 7th and 8th."

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/31/2012. Unpublished database.

Click on the attached War Department letter
for further biographical details.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
11/01/2012. Unpublished database.

Thanks to George Seitz for finding this
grave, creating the initial memorial, and
for his picture of the gravestone.