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Two young brothers, Joseph and Henry DeJarnette, who visited their sister, Carolyn DeJamette Keyser here, settled in this area for a while and practiced medicine in the town of Washington, where the Rappahannock Medical Clinic is now.
Right around the turn of the century the tors became well-known for their love of musil and entertainment as well as their knowledge of mediCtffe. Mary Elizabeth Hite said that Dr. Joseph could sing Negro spirituals as no other white man could.
Dr. Joseph went on to Staunton, where he founded a sanitorium and specialized in psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Henry became an eye doctor and lived at the family estate, Mt. Comfort, in Spotsylvania.
Dr. Henry DeJamette kept a ledger during the years he practiced in Rappahannock, between the years 18% and 1898. Dr. DeJamette was the great uncle of Margaret DeJamette Baumgardner of Sperryville.
His ledger tells that Dr. DeJamette charged from $1.00 to $2.00 for an office visit. Many of his patients paid their bills with hay, which was worth fifty cents a hundred pounds in 1897. Clarence Miller was one of those who fiimished the doctor with hay, providing 1,130 pounds for a credit of $5.65 on his bill.
The numerous visits of F. J. Snider were paid for by Judge Strother, with the exception of $2.00 worth of wood fiimished by the patient: Snider had numerous teeth extracted by the doctor, for a fee of 50 cents per extraction.
Mrs. B. E. Hackley was seen by the doctor once each day and once each night for the period between September 7 and November 23, 1897, for a total charge of $63.50.
Ben Cliffin paid for his medical care by shoeing the doctor’s horse for a fee of fifty cents.
Horace Moffett broke his arm on June 18, 1897 and submitted to a series of operation! to set it properly, for the sum of $5.00. A more minor operation was performed on Omega Swindler’s thumb - it cost fifty cents.
By July of 1897, hay was surely piling up in the good doctor’s bam, with the purchase that month of 1,000 more pounds from Thomas Haywood for a credit of $5.00 on his bill. T. H. Hudson helped to provide a more varied diet for Dr. Henry’s horses by paying his bill with four bushels of oats at forty cents a bushel. Hudson needed a lot of oats in August of 1898 to pay an obstetrical fee for his wife - one of the doctor’s highest charges at ten dollars.
Another high-priced operation was setting a broken leg, which Dr. DeJamettedid for Joe Grayson on August 30, 1898, for $10.00.
Hubert Keyser needed some teeth extracted in 1898 and paid his bill of $3.00 with a horse for the doctor.
B. B. Baggarley received five electric shocks for an unknown ailment for $1.00. He paid his bill by allowing some money off a rental fee owned by the doctor.
In addition to the daily accounts, Dr. DeJarnette’s ledger provides a glimpse of daily life around the turn of the century. Although he was a bachelor, the doctor was one of six children and his brother had six children as well. Over the years, various children used the ledger for drawing paper, including a fledgling fashion designer who drew a very chic lady’s outfit on one of the pages.
Also scribbled in the ledger is this grocery list: 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. coffee, box of crackers, 1 pound of soda - all for 64 cents.
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