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CHARLES W. JOYCE M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1060

CHARLES W. JOYCE M. D. has been practicing medicine and surgery in
Oklahoma twelve years, and since 1912 has been located at Fletcher.
He brought to the profession thorough training and natural
qualifications of high order, and the able services he has already
rendered constitute a promise of many tears of usefulness to any
community where he lives.

A native of North Carolina, he represents a branch of the Joyce
family which was transplanted from Ireland to the Carolinas many
years before the Revolutionary war. Doctor Joyce was born at
Westfield, in Stokes County, North Carolina, September 22, 1881. His
father is J. T. Joyce, who was born in North Carolina in 1843, lived
for many years at Westfield and in 1891 removed to Danbury in Stokes
County, where he is still following his vocation as a farmer. In
politics he is a republican and is a member of the old Quaker church.
During the was he enlisted from North Carolina in a confederate
regiment and was in service to the end, having once been taken
prisoner, but rejoining his command after his exchange. J. T. Joyce
married Elizabeth JESSUP, who was born in Stokes County in 1843 and
died at Westfield in 1885, when Doctor Joyce was four years of age. A
brief record of her children is: James, now deceased; Ried P., who is
a merchant at Walnut cove, North Carolina; T. P., whose present
whereabouts are unknown; Mary Belle, a teacher in Blanchard,
Oklahoma; and Charles W.

The youth of Doctor Joyce was spent in his native state, and he went
through the public schools at Danbury, graduating from high school in
1898. After one year in Davidson College of North Carolina, he spent
three years in the medical department of the University of Tennessee
at Nashville, and was graduated from that prominent institution with
the degree M. D. in 1903. In the same year he came west and
established his first office at Elgin, Oklahoma, practice there ten
months, and then for eight years was in practice at Wheatland,
Oklahoma. Doctor Joyce moved to Fletcher May 1, 1912, and in addition
to a general medical and surgical practice is serving as local
surgeon for the Frisco railroad. In 1905 he gave up his practice
temporarily to take post-graduate work in New York City. He is a
member in good standing of the county and state medical societies and
American Medical Association.

Doctor Joyce, like his father, was a republican and is affiliated
with Fletcher Lodge No. 363, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and
has taken thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite, belonging to
McAlester Consistory. At his old home in Danbury, Stokes County,
North Carolina, in 1905 he married Miss Cora M. PETREE, whose father
N. O. Petree is an attorney of Danbury. To their marriage were born
three children: Charles Nathaniel, born May 10, 1906, and attending
public schools; Riet Petree, born April 20, 1908, and also in school;
and Frank Thomas, born October 24, 1913.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Janie Edwards, August 1999.