irth: Mar. 14, 1838 Charleston Charleston County South Carolina, USA Death: Aug. 3, 1900 Abbeville Abbeville County South Carolina, USA John Lawrence Ancrum, of Charleston, S.C., son of Col. William Washington Ancrum, and grandson of Colonel William Washington, of the revolution, was born in Charleston, S.C., March 14th, 1838. He was educated at the Charleston high school, graduated A.B. from the Charleston College in 1859, and A.M. in 1859 and M.D. from the S.C. Medical College in March 1860 and settled in Charleston. He was a member of the S.C. Medical Society, and ex-treasurer and member of the board of trustees of Roper Hospital, having been elected to the former in 1860, and to the latter in 1871; also a member and one of the vice-presidents of the S.C. Medical Association. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Navy as Assistant Surgeon onboard the "CSS Nashville," and in the Confederate States Army as a Surgeon under General Johnston and General Morgan.