Dr Marvin Lee Graves ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Cause of his death was encephalomalacia of brain due to arteriosclerosis.⁶

   Another name for Marvin was Dr Marvin Louis Graves.

  General Notes:

At the time of the 1900 census, Dr. Graves was superintendent of the South Western Insane Asylum in Bexar County, Texas. He lived with his wife and son at the facility. At the time of the 1910 and 1920 census, he was a public medical physican in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas. In 1920, he owned his home free of mortgage and had a private family cook, Clara Keys, listed with the family. At the time of the 1930 census, Dr. Graves was a physician in Houston, Harris County, Texas, specializing in internal medicine. His divorced brother in law, Henry C. Ghent was lodging with the family. His home was valued at $70,000. He had a cook, maid, and servant listed in the household. He had resided in Houston, Harris County, Texas for 28 years at the time of his death. His son, Dr. Ghent Graves, was the informant on his death certificate.

The Houston Chronicle--Monday, December 17, 1951
Neighbors of Note
Dr. Graves Mixes Bit of Religion with Medicine
by Cora McRae, Chronicle Staff

Dr. Marvin Lee Graves, a Texan whose career has highlighted the progress of medicine in this state, is the son of a Methodist minister and one of seven brothers, five of whom became professional men.

He, also, is a pillar in the Methodist Church. He has been a member of the board of stewards of the First Methodist Church since his arrival here in 1925, and for 21 years before that he held the same office in the First Methodist Church of Galveston.

He was born in 1869 at Bosqueville on the Brazos River, six miles west of Waco, and was greatly attracted to medicine as an altruistic science. Without funds to study medicine when he finished school, he was principal at Belton High School for two years before he began his premedical studies under Dr. H. C. Ghent of Belton, as was the custom in those days.

Now Doctor Graves has six college degrees. Three, which he earned, are a B.A. and M.A. from Southwestern, in 1885 and 1886, and an M.D. in 1891 from Bellvue Medical College, now a part of New York University. The honorary degrees are master of science, awarded in 1949 on the 109th anniversary of his alma mater, Southwestern University, and degrees from Southern Methodist University and Baylor Medical School.

He married Miss Laura Ghent in Belton in 1893 when he was a general practitioner in Waco. In 1898 he was appointed superintendent of the Southwestern Hospital for the Insane, a post he held for seven years.

His next move was to Galveston as professor of medicine and nervous and mental diseases. He came to Houston in 1925. Here he practiced medicine and played golf until two years ago when, at the age of 80, he retired from both. He is now medical adviser to the American General Insurance Company.

He and Mrs. Graves live at 11 Shadow Lawn. They have three children, Dr. Ghent Graves, member of the Baylor Medical faculty and an internal medicine specialist; Mrs. Laura Lee Steel and Mrs. George T. Morse, and eight grandchildren, all of Houston.

The honors he has received in his career are legion.

Marvin married Laura Lee Ghent, daughter of Henry Clay Ghent and Sarah Jane Pearce, in 1893 in Belton, Bell County, Texas. (Laura Lee Ghent was born on 27 Aug 1870 in Port Sullivan, Robertson County, Texas,^{2 8} died on 27 Feb 1960 in Houston, Harris County, Texas ^{8 9} and was buried on 29 Feb 1960 in Forest Park Mausoleum, Houston, Harris County, Texas ⁸.). The cause of her death was aur. fibrillation due to coronary arteriosclerosis.⁶