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- Dr. J.S. Fulton Atoka Funeral Will Be Today
Atoka, Jan. 25 – (Special) – Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Methodist church for Dr. Joseph Samuel Fulton, 84, who died after a heart attack in his home here early Thursday.
Dr. Fulton was president of the Indian Territory Medical association in 1893 and in 1926 was elected president of the Oklahoma Medical association. He had been actively engaged in the practice of medicine 58 years. He was in his office a couple of days before his death.
He was awarded a 50-year plaque by the Southern Medical society at the conclusion of 50 years of practice in 1940. He estimated he had delivered more than 4,000 infants during his practice in Atoka.
Dr. Fulton was born in Grayson county, Texas, Jan. 8, 1866 and had lived in Atoka since 1891, after graduation from medical school He obtained his medical degree from the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville. He had attended public school in Cannon, Texas, and the Sherman academy, Sherman, Texas.
He was a member of the Methodist church. He was president of the Atoka school board 12 years and president of the chamber of commerce 20 years.
Surviving are two sons, Dr. Clifford C. Fulton, 611 Culbertson drive, Oklahoma, City, and J.H., Atoka; three brothers, Jim, Muskogee; Perry, Konawa, and Vardie, Onawa; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Friday, 27 January 1950.
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