C.E. Macartney: Monument to an Old-time Country Doctor

Right in the middle of the highway at Midlothian, Virginia, there is a singular monument to an old-time country doctor. He had done such service to the community that the people wanted to erect a memorial to him in the village while he was yet alive, but the doctor was too modest for that and said, “When I die, you all just bury me wherever I be.” Shortly afterward, as he was driving his buggy on his way to a sick patient, he died there in the middle of the road, and there today, right in the middle of the road, so that you have to drive your automobile around it as you pass through the village, stands that singular monument. (C.E. Macartney - Encyclopedia of Illustrations #75200).