Lila Mallory Brewer in Massachusetts

 
Rhoda Eliza "Lila" Mallory and Dr. James F. Brewer Jr. were married in 1925 at the Sassaquin TB sanatorium where Jim worked.  This clipping was in Dot Mallory's notebook, which was dated 1923 to 1925, Dallas, Texas. 
 
Lila c. 1925
Lila and Jim lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for most of their married life, but traveled to Tennessee, Maine,and North Carolina, Jim's home state, and Texas, where Lila was born.  
 
Dot Mallory identified the people in this photograph as Dot Mallory (L), "possibly Wanda [?] next to Dot, Ben Brewer, Dr. James Brewer (C) & Lila With Vic [son of Leona Lucy Mallory Poor] behind him, then Lucy (R),  and their Jimmy."  Vic was born in 1933, which dates this photo to only a few years later.  The photo was located in Pinkney Poor's album, so it was likely taken in California.

Sassaquin c. 1955
 
According to the 1940 Census, the family was living on the Sassaquin Sanatorium grounds with their two sons and daughter, Benjamin Mallory Brewer, age 13, James F. Brewer III, age 11, and Elizabeth Brewer, age 2.  
 
Jim's World War II draft registration card described him as being 5' 2 1/2" and 154lbs, with a light complexion, gray hair and blue eyes.  He was now the superintendent of the sanatorium.  His mother, Hattie Mitchell Brewer, came to live with them after the death of his father, and she worked as supervisor of housekeeping at the sanatorium. Lila, an RN, became the superintendent of nurses.
 
Sometime shortly after the war, the family moved into 347 Union Street, in New Bedford.  The house was originally built in 1848 by Captain Fordyce Dennis Haskell (1802-1891) in the "octagonal mode" popular until 1860.

For more than 25 years, this family's daily life had been centered around the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients, but the threat of tuberculosis had greatly decreased since the 1946 development of streptomycin, along with vaccines and improvements to sanitation and personal hygiene.  
 
The 1950 Census now identified Jim as a "chest physician" in private practice and Lila as a registered nurse at an unidentified hospital.  Hattie continued to stay with them, but outlived her son.  Dr. James F. Brewer Jr. died in Boston in 1963.

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