Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 


Source: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell 
  Counties, Texas. Page: 350


                                 R. LYCURGUS D. FORBES

  R. LYCURGUS D. FORBES, deceased, was for a number of years a worthy member of 
the medical profession of Falls county, and was well known throughout this 
section of Texas.
  His father, Dr. Robert Forbes, who was born in Tennessee in 1806, came to Texas 
in 1853, and first located in Falls county, where he lived and practiced his 
profession until his death, which occurred April 24, 1871. He was a successful 
man, both professionally and financially. He affiliated with the Democratic party 
and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married in 1832, to Elzira 
Long, a native of Tennessee, and a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Long, natives 
of Kentucky. Two children were born to them, the subject of this sketch and his 
sister Nancy, the latter being deceased. She was the wife of William Peck, a 
merchant of Freestone county, Texas. 
  Lycurgus D. was born in Tennessee in 1835, and was eighteen years of age at the 
time he moved with his parents to Texas. He remained with them  until 1867. He 
was educated in Tennessee, and began the study of medicine under Dr. Dudley; was 
a graduate of the Louisville Medical College and of the. New Orleans School of 
Medicine, completing his course at the latter institution in 1860. He then located
for practice in Freestone county, Texas; from there moved to Limestone county, 
and thence to Falls county, where he continued to practice, meeting with eminent 
success, till 1876, when he retired.  He was, however, urged by his many friends 
to resume practice, which he did till the time of his death.
  Dr. Forbes was married in 1869, to Mrs. Hollingsworth, nee Sallie Scogin, 
daughter of Toliver and Caroline (Davenport) Scogin, natives of South Carolina 
and Alabama respectively. By her first husband, Richard C. Hollingsworth, she had 
one child, Richie, wife of Samuel Feyton, of Regan, Texas. By Dr. Forbes she had
six children, viz.: Lizzie, a music teacher; Carrie, a student at Sherman, Texas; 
and Robert, Nannie, Walton and Edwin, at home. 
  The Doctor was a man of general information, charitable nature, good habits 
and even temper, and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. He was in 
politics a Democrat. He enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861, and was all 
through the war. From time to time he invested in real estate, and at his death
his land-holdings comprised about 1,000 acres, 315 of which were under cultivation; 
was also interested in stock. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of 
the Baptist Church. Mrs. Forbes also is a member of the Baptist Church.