La Grange’s First Hospital Patient

One hundred years ago, in July 1920, Dr. Frank J. Guenther of Moulton bought the Byrnes home and double lot on East Guadalupe Street in La Grange, with the intention of making it La Grange’s first hospital. The house was built some time before 1880 for Major J. M. Byrnes, a Confederate army veteran who came to La Grange as a cotton buyer after the Civil War. His widow, Delphine, was still living…