Post by Brian on Jun 25, 2014 9:00:29 GMT -5
01/10/08 at 01:32 PM
Maria
Anytime you mention the word Doctor in Stokes County during the Laws on years as I call them, only one name is usually brought up. Dr. C.J. Helsabeck. Yet there were 3 doctors back then in Stokes County. Chester Helsabeck's brother Rupert and another Doctor, Dr. Wade Bynum. Dr. Bynum was a doctor in Stokes County for 16 years before Chester Helsabeck was or his brother Rupert. He was a doctor there from 1902 through 1940 when he died. Dr. Bynum delivered Carrie Lawson but I rarely see his name mentioned elsewhere.
Maria
01/13/08 at 07:53 PM
sissy
That's weird. If everyone knew that Dr. Helsabeck was a drunk or unsanitary, why did they continue to go and see him when they had others? Maybe he was the cheapest?
sissy
01/18/08 at 09:27 AM
Maria
It could have been for that reason Sissy I just don't know. Maybe he was more visible and better known than the others. Or maybe he had a better bed-side manner than the other doctors, even when under the influence. I remember the story that someone told me about Charlie Wade Hampton's wife Annie Mae Taylor's mother. Seems she was bitten by a spider one time and the bite was poisonous and she had to be hospitalized in Winston-Salem. Everyone knew that Annie Mae's mother loved the soft drink Dr. Pepper. One day when she was rather feverish and delusional the nurse asked her if she would like to have a Dr. Pepper. To which Annie Mae's mother replied, "No, I want Dr. Helsabeck." And yes Virginia, she really did say that.!!!
Maria
01/18/08 at 09:31 AM
laurie1125
The company sells more Dr Pepper in the Roanoke Valley area of Virginia than any other metropolitan area east of the Mississippi River. Roanoke is approximately 90 miles east of the hometown of Dr Charles T. Pepper, which is Rural Retreat, Virginia. In the past, the city has been named the "Dr Pepper Capital of the World," and broke world records for its mass consumption of Dr Pepper in the late 1950s. [4] Dr Pepper donated a portion of its sales revenue in the Roanoke area to finance restoration of a circa-1950s neon Dr Pepper sign, which has the company's "10, 2, 4" logo from the time, in downtown Roanoke.
laurie1125
01/18/08 at 12:18 PM
Angel71242
That is weird that most everyone wanted Dr. C.J. Helsabeck. I guess they just got used to him and he knew everyone so they stuck with him. They probably didn't know that he killed Jettie cause he was drunk and didn't wash his hands. They probably just figured her death was caused by childbirth and just a fact of life in the early 1900's.
Angel71242
01/18/08 at 08:06 PM
Maria
If I remember correctly it was not long after Jettie's death that I noticed the name of Dr. Rufus Helsabeck
showing up on birth and death certificates more often than Dr. Chester Helsabeck so my guess is that word did indeed get around about the circumstances surrounding Jettie Lawson's death. But it was still Dr. Chester Helsabeck that Charlie Lawson went to see when he hit himself in the head with the mattock. And it was Dr. Chester Helsabeck that was called upon to go to the Lawson home on the day of the murders.
Maria
Maria
Anytime you mention the word Doctor in Stokes County during the Laws on years as I call them, only one name is usually brought up. Dr. C.J. Helsabeck. Yet there were 3 doctors back then in Stokes County. Chester Helsabeck's brother Rupert and another Doctor, Dr. Wade Bynum. Dr. Bynum was a doctor in Stokes County for 16 years before Chester Helsabeck was or his brother Rupert. He was a doctor there from 1902 through 1940 when he died. Dr. Bynum delivered Carrie Lawson but I rarely see his name mentioned elsewhere.
Maria
01/13/08 at 07:53 PM
sissy
That's weird. If everyone knew that Dr. Helsabeck was a drunk or unsanitary, why did they continue to go and see him when they had others? Maybe he was the cheapest?
sissy
01/18/08 at 09:27 AM
Maria
It could have been for that reason Sissy I just don't know. Maybe he was more visible and better known than the others. Or maybe he had a better bed-side manner than the other doctors, even when under the influence. I remember the story that someone told me about Charlie Wade Hampton's wife Annie Mae Taylor's mother. Seems she was bitten by a spider one time and the bite was poisonous and she had to be hospitalized in Winston-Salem. Everyone knew that Annie Mae's mother loved the soft drink Dr. Pepper. One day when she was rather feverish and delusional the nurse asked her if she would like to have a Dr. Pepper. To which Annie Mae's mother replied, "No, I want Dr. Helsabeck." And yes Virginia, she really did say that.!!!
Maria
01/18/08 at 09:31 AM
laurie1125
The company sells more Dr Pepper in the Roanoke Valley area of Virginia than any other metropolitan area east of the Mississippi River. Roanoke is approximately 90 miles east of the hometown of Dr Charles T. Pepper, which is Rural Retreat, Virginia. In the past, the city has been named the "Dr Pepper Capital of the World," and broke world records for its mass consumption of Dr Pepper in the late 1950s. [4] Dr Pepper donated a portion of its sales revenue in the Roanoke area to finance restoration of a circa-1950s neon Dr Pepper sign, which has the company's "10, 2, 4" logo from the time, in downtown Roanoke.
laurie1125
01/18/08 at 12:18 PM
Angel71242
That is weird that most everyone wanted Dr. C.J. Helsabeck. I guess they just got used to him and he knew everyone so they stuck with him. They probably didn't know that he killed Jettie cause he was drunk and didn't wash his hands. They probably just figured her death was caused by childbirth and just a fact of life in the early 1900's.
Angel71242
01/18/08 at 08:06 PM
Maria
If I remember correctly it was not long after Jettie's death that I noticed the name of Dr. Rufus Helsabeck
showing up on birth and death certificates more often than Dr. Chester Helsabeck so my guess is that word did indeed get around about the circumstances surrounding Jettie Lawson's death. But it was still Dr. Chester Helsabeck that Charlie Lawson went to see when he hit himself in the head with the mattock. And it was Dr. Chester Helsabeck that was called upon to go to the Lawson home on the day of the murders.
Maria
