Father, Dr. James Washington Earle
Mother: Amanda Malvenia Benson
- Early training with Rev. John L. Kennedy, Thalian Academy, near Slabtown, Anderson Co., SC
1857-1860 - Attended, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1860 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Anderson, SC; preceptor: Dr. A. P. Cater)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Anderson Co., SC
04/14/1861 - Enlisted, Anderson C. H., Anderson Co., SC
04/14/1861 - Pvt. Co. B, 4th SC Infantry
05/07/1861 - Attached to the Hospital, 4th SC Infantry, as a nurse
06/07/1861 - Mustered-in, 4th SC Infantry, Columbia, SC
06/07/1861 - Pvt., Co. B, 4th SC Infantry - on special duty
08/00/1861 - On detached service in 4th SC Infantry Hospital
10/03/1861 - On sick leave
12/00/1861 - On detached service in 4th SC Infantry Hospital
05/05/1862 - Wounded, Battle of Williamsburg [VA]
08/14/1862 - Hospital Steward, Palmetto Sharpshooters [SC]
09/00/1862 - South Carolina Hospital, Manchester, SC
12/08/1862 - Acting as an Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, but has no contract
12/12/1862 - Discharged from the Confederate Army because of "emaciation and exhaustive debility"
1865-1866 - Practiced medicine, Anderson Co., SC
1867 - Practiced medicine, Pickens Co., SC
1874 - Practiced medicine, Slabtown, Anderson Co., SC
10/08/1874 - Married, Jeannette Elizabeth Breazeale [she died in 1910]
1880 - Druggist and practiced medicine, Pickens C. H. Township, Pickens Co., SC
1886,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Pickens C. H., Pickens Co., SC
1894 - Board of Examiners [reviewed pension applications], Pickens Co., SC
1896 - Practiced medicine, Pickens C. H., Pickens Co., SC
1900 - Practiced medicine, Pickens Township, Pickens Co., SC
1903 - Physician and pharmacist, Pickens Co., SC
01/20/1903 - Died, Pickens Co., SC (buried: Sunrise Cemetery, Pickens Co., SC; cause: pneumonia)

Note: Anna O'Quinn Richter and Fran Bundy provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/07/2014. Unpublished database.

The following notes are by Fran Bundy, the creator of this memorial:
Married October 1874 per Men of the Time by JC Garrington 1902
Burial information found in Old Pendleton Data Base, Griffin Family
Listed as Physician and Druggist on 1880 Census