Dr. Ken Bridges

HISTORY MINUTE

The debate over alcohol and drug use has circulated across the nation for generations. Carrie Nation, the small woman armed with a hatchet and later Arkansas resident, became a nightmare for bar patrons across the country.

She was born Carrie Amelia Moore in Central Kentucky in 1846. Her father was a successful planter. However, her mother had a mental illness which caused great distress for the family. Th ere were no treatments available then, and she was eventually institutionalized. Th e family, often embarrassed, moved often, eventually coming to Missouri. These moves increasingly eroded the family’s finances. When the Civil War erupted, the family moved to Grayson County and its perceived safety far from the fighting but had to return to Missouri by 1862 because of fi nances.

In 1867, she married a physician, Dr. Charles Gloyd. Her family, however, objected to him because Gloyd was clearly an alcoholic. But it was a stormy relationship, as his drinking steadily destroyed the marriage. Within months, the two separated. Th e couple had a daughter shortly afterward, and Gloyd drank himself to death in 1869.

 

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