Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol.II p.350 1923
Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present
CREEKMORE, M.D., GEORGE ROBERSON. A popular
and accomplished physician and surgeon at Brooksville, Doctor
CREEKMORE has practiced medicine in Florida for seventeen years,
and has taken a commendable part in the civic and social life of his
community.
He was born on a farm near Live Oak in Suwannee
County, Florida, November 2, 1879, son of ABNER ROBERSON and MARY E.
(ALLISON) CREEKMORE, both natives of Mississippi. His mother
resides at Live Oak, Florida. His father, who was born July 9,
1846, and died June 4, 1898, was brought to Florida when a boy by his
parents and at the age of fifteen he enlisted in the Confederate Army
and served for a brief term. He married in Suwannee County, was a
railroad worker one year and subsequently a farmer, and in farming he
achieved the substantial success that made him recognized throughout
his vicinity for efficiency, and also enabled him to provide liberally
for his family. He was a member of the Masonic Order and the
Baptist Church.
Doctor CREEKMORE grew up on a farm and as a boy
determined that his future career should be in the medical
profession. He attended common schools and the Suwannee High
School, and after the death of his father he took charge of the farm
and spent five years improving it and maintaining its production.
This duty fulfilled, he in October, 1902, entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta, where he spent one year, and
followed that with three years in the medical department of the
University of Georgia, where he was
graduated M.D. in 1906. For several years Doctor CREEKMORE
practiced at Live Oak, and in August, 1909, removed to Citra in Marion
County, where he remained seven and one-half years. He was deacon
in the Baptist Church at Citra, and had an active part in the affairs
of Marion County. Since February, 1917, he has continued his
practice with home and office at Brooksville. During the World
war he was the medical member of the Local Draft Board. He is a
member of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Surgeons’ Association,
the Marion County, Florida State and Southern Medical
associations. He is clerk and deacon of the Baptist Church and
treasurer of its Sunday School at Brooksville, is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, and has been a Mason since joining the order at
Citra in 1912.
While enjoying success in his profession Doctor
CREEKMORE has not neglected his study and has made every effort to keep
his abilities in line with the highest standards. He took special
laboratory work and courses in pediatrics in 1915 in the Atlanta School
of Medicine, was in the Loyola Post Graduate School at New Orleans in
1920, and in 1921 took a special course of five weeks in diagnosis and
laboratory work and hospital methods at Johns Hopkins University at
Baltimore.
In 1901, at Live Oak, Doctor CREEKMORE married Miss
DOLA HADDOCK. She was born near Live Oak, daughter of J. L. and
Mrs. MARY E. HADDOCK. Mr. HADDOCK, one of the splendid citizens
of that locality, is still living on his farm in Suwannee County.
He is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. Mrs. CREEKMORE is
affiliated with the Eastern Star, is a member of the Baptist
Church, and joins in all the programs of social activities of the
town. Doctor and Mrs. CREEKMORE have one daughter, VERONA, born
at Citra, December 3, 1911.