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Thomas Jacob Coble,
M.D.
Thomas Jacob Coble
was born January 7,1871, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, Bedford
County, on the Fayetteville Highway in the house that is now a
part of the Trinity (Cumberland) Presbyterian Church.
He was the son or
Dr. Neely B. Coble and the former
Miss Emma Jane Gilliland.
He was the grandson of
Jacob and
Mary Kimbro Coble and
Col. Samuel Edmiston Gilliland and
Violet Berry Logan Gilliland.
He had five brothers, two of whom died in infancy.
Another brother,
John, died during childhood.
Samuel Gilliland Coble, M. D., was not married.
George Williams Coble was married to
Henrietta Steele of Bedford County.
He received his early education in the schools of
Bedford County. He
was graduated from the Medical Department of Vanderbilt
University in March 1898, and received his license to practice
the following month.
Before attending Vanderbilt, he and his brother
Sam operated a drug store on the square under the name of "Coble
Brothers."
He began practice of medicine with his father and
continued with him until his father's death in 1900.
Their office was on South Main Street, across from the
Public Library. He
did graduate work at Tulane Medical School at Tulane University.
He had several articles published in the Tennessee Medical
Journal. He was a
member of the American Medical Association, of the Tenn. Medical
Association since 1903, and was a charter member of the Bedford
County Medical Society, having helped to organize it in June,
1903.
Dr. Coble was married to
Miss Mable Louise Holt in February, 1913.
Their two daughters,
Emma Elizabeth Coble is Mrs.
C.
A. McLean, Jr. and
Mabel Holt Coble is Mrs.
James Hugh Caperton, Sr.
His contribution to the community in which he
spent his life consisted not only in his skill as a physician,
but also in his furtherance of civic improvement, particularly in
improving rural roads and helping to build better public schools.
He was chairman of the Shelbyville City School Board.
Much effort was spent in behalf of purebred Jersey
dairy herds for Bedford County.
For many years he owned a fine herd of registered Jerseys.
It was largely through his efforts that the first appropriation
ever granted for testing Bedford County cattle for bovine
tuberculosis was voted by the County Court.
During World War I, Dr. Coble served on the
county’s Draft Board with the late C. S. Ivie and “Sawny" Webb of
Bell Buckle.
He was a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church,
a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, and a
Rotarian.
He died May 19,1940, in Shelbyville and is buried
in Willow Mount Cemetery.
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