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Asa's father,
Doctor William Edward York, was known as "The Baby Doctor"
since he delivered over 2,000 Lee Countians to the world. He graduated
from New Orleans Tulane University with a medical degree in 1894.
Asa was the first child of five. Dr. York returned to New York for
further study and when he returned he brought to Giddings the first
x-ray machine in that part of Texas. Dr. York died shortly before
the end of WWII.
Within a few hundred feet of the York Cousin's graves, there are
stones for two more of Gidding's WWI soldiers. Corporal
John Claud Carlisle (born 1896) was killed in France on October
14th, 1918. All of these Lee
County men no doubt knew one another, but the dates of their
deaths were so close, that it's likely the last one to die hadn't
time to learn of the death of the first. The 4th grave shows that
Edward J. Krueger (born 1894) was killed on the 9th of October,
1918, also in France. In the space of two short weeks, four Lee
County soldiers died - the oldest of which was 27 years old.
Only Randall York's tombstone says that he was reburied in
Giddings in 1921,
but it is most likely that all four were first buried in France.
February,
2001
© John
Troesser
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