It’s Family Time~Henry Thompson Boatwright

Henry Thompson Boatwright was born 17 October 1906, a son of Eugene Thomas Boatwright and Emma Frances Previtte. Henry was their 3rd born child. He was a farmer by trade as was most South Carolinians during that time. 

Henry lived a short life due to what was known at ‘that time as “Bright’s Disease”.  Henry suffered from Kidney failure. It is not known if Henry suffered from the disease his entire life or just later in his short life. Regardless, this is long before the creation of “a dialysis machine” to purify and clean blood. Henry passed away at the very young age of 21 on 24 September 1928. 

It would be some 15 years later before the concept of a machine to clean the blood was conceived by a Dutch physician in 1943.  

[Quote] “The history of dialysis dates back to the 1940s. The first type of dialyzer, then called the artificial kidney, was built in 1943 by Dutch physician Willem Kolff. Kolff had first gotten the idea of developing a machine to clean the blood after watching a patient suffer from kidney failure.” [unquote] ¹

The technological advances we, as a nation, have achieved in the past 100 years have been phenomenal. The medical advances have added years to our lifespan. 


Henry Thompson Boatwright was my 1st Cousin twice removed. 


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1. https://www.dpcedcenter.org/news-events/news/a-brief-history-of-dialysis/
2. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed  3 June 2012); Memorial page for Henry T. Boatwright; (17 October 1906–25 September 1928); Find a Grave memorial # 48049695, Citing Pleasant Hill Cemetery; McFarlan, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
3. 1910 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 0012, Page 182B/7B; Line 98, Dwelling 37, Family 37, Eugene T. BOATWRIGHT; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 3 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm  T624_1455.
4. 1920  U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 12, Page 178A & B, Line 50, Dwelling 156, Family 159, Household of Eugene T. BOATWRIGHT; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 5 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm Series: T625, Roll: 1283.
5.  North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976,  Images. Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com:  3 June 2012),  North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, Henry Boatwright; Certificate number #419, 24 September 1928.