Dr. Geo. Milling - Squaw Creek Cemetery - Rainbow, TX, USA
N 32° 15.751 W 097° 43.236
14S E 620505 N 3570252
A Dove of Peace bearing an olive branch appears on the headstone marking the final resting place of Dr. George Milling in Squaw Creek Cemetery, Rainbow, TX.
Waymark Code: WM121P7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2020
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A comparison of 2020 photos and those at Dr. Milling's
Findagrave page indicates that his headstone had previously been knocked down and then restored. It had once faced the road at the west end of the cemetery, but today, it looks towards the center of the cemetery in the direction of the tabernacle. This is a common marble headstone of the period, with a cap, and the family name, "Milling", is on the plinth, which sits slightly off-center on its base. Below the dove of peace is this inscription:
Dr. Geo.
Milling
Born
March 5,
1873
Died
Sept. 16
1914
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There is a photo of Dr. Milling in Arcadia's "Glen Rose" in their Images of America series, along with some background. Frankly, he probably wasn't even a doctor of any kind, and by today's terms, he'd be known as a quack or a crank or some kind of New Age epithet. He practiced "magnetic healing", and his father and nephew were also practitioners of this "science." Milling operated a sanitarium -- a place of healing, a name given to avoid prosecution if the name "hospital" was used by non-certified physicians -- that still stands at Barnard and Mustang Streets in Glen Rose. He opened up shop in 1911, but some of his more notable visitors were the police, answering calls about the good doctor's disturbing the peace, waving around a firearm, and even threatening to kill someone. "Glen Rose" notes that magnetic healers were also called "rubbin' doctors", and this may provide a hint as to why someone opened fire on him with a shotgun in 1914: Dr. Milling may have taken the "rubbin'" part a little too far with a female patient, which cost him his life at the hands of a jealous husband.