CARMARK, JOSEPH GATEWOOD - Erath County, Texas | JOSEPH GATEWOOD CARMARK - Texas Gravestone Photos

Joseph Gatewood CARMARK

West End (Stephenville) Cemetery
Erath County,
Texas

Feb. 15, 1841 - Nov. 1, 1875

Inscription:
"Husband of Mary Wisdom Carmack
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There is a website named www.deafbiographies.com that has, strangely enough, biographical information on people who were deaf.

One of the people appearing in the database is Joseph Gatewood Carmack, who was a student at the Texas Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, in Austin, TX. He was admitted as a student on July 13, 1857, and was still a student there in 1859. He was from Stephenville, Erath Co, TX.

The 1860 census of Stephenville (as a student), & the 1870 census living near Bosque Creek in Erath Co, TX. He was listed as a farmer like his father. The census returns list him as deaf and dumb.

Information provided by his wife in a special federal census of the deaf and dumb in 1892 stated that he went deaf as a result of "winter fever" when he was one year old. She also stated that he started school in 1857 when he lived in Stephenville. The school had been organized in Austin in 1856 but the first 4 students didn't arrive until about January 1857. Joseph does not appear to have been one of these but by the summer of 1857 there were 11 students of which he was probably one. His wife didn't know how long he went to school but it is possible that he attended and/or taught there into the late 1860's when his wife, who had been deaf since birth, began her attendance at the school.

His wife also stated that his youngest child was born after Joseph died. He was recorded as being deaf and dumb in census records.
[courtesy of Find A Grave]
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Note: There appears to be a Civil War flag in the photo posted on Find A Grave. Since he was supposedly deaf and dumb, not sure if he was in military.
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Contributed on 3/12/19 by tomannkill
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Submitted: 3/12/19 • Approved: 3/12/19 • Last Updated: 3/15/19 • R189503-G0-S3

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