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LOOK BACK: Cora Anderson Negro Hospital provides healing for Bell County

The largest single donor, a black businesswoman and philanthropist Cora Anderson, donated $1098 and another $1500 to make sure the hospital would be completed on time.

Elois Evelyn Ponder, age 68, of Temple, died October 5, 2023.

Backroads: First black doctor in Bell County was praised for service to community

If slaves were fortunate enough to be free in Texas before 1865, one truth remained constant: Freedom wasn’t free. State-imposed restrictions and denial of rights freely given to whites were denied African-Americans — even access to medical care.  “After annexation (into the United States in 1845), the state of Texas adapted even more elaborate restrictions on life of free Negroes,” said historian Dr. Alwyn Barr, author of “Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995” (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). “They could not have firearms, gamble, hire slaves or dispense medicine, nor could they preach without two (white) slaveholders as witnesses.”