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hours, since most doctors at the time, like her grandfathers, had patients dropping in on them whenever they felt “an ache or pain.”
She also remembers that one time he stayed out in the yard after making a house call “yelling for Pinkie to bring him his bathrobe so he could take off his clothes. He had been through a pig lot and was covered with fleas.”
They were living in Sperryville when their son John Peyton Snead IV and their daughter Betty were bom, but shortly after Betty’s birth they had Charlie Hawkins build them a stone house with an office in the basement just outside town. It cost $8,000, Judge Raynor Snead, the doctor’s brother, remembers.
“He had office hours three times a day six days a week and on Sunday mornings,” Judge Snead recalled. “And in between he made house calls. Pinkie set up a dispensary in the basement, since there was no drugstore in the county.”
Judge Snead said he asked his brother why he charged so little for his services. “Office visits were unbelievably cheap,” he said. “He said he would rather collect than charge high prices and not be paid. All the same he had a lot of uncollected bills, but he never took anyone to court.”
Unlike Mrs. Thornton’s grandfa
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