Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Waits, Owen K.  December 20, 1894
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Dr. Owen Kinyan Waits died at his home at Lineville, Ala., December 20th, 1894.; 
He was born in the State of Georgia February 25th, 1830, and came with his 
parents to Alabama while yet a youth, Dr. Waits graduated from the Grafenburg 
Medical College of. Alabama March 21st, 1856, receiving a certificate of honor 
upon his graduation. He then came to this county (then Talladega County) and, 
except a term of service in the Confederate army, he practiced his profession 
here uninterruptedly until failing health would no longer admit of his visiting 
the sick. He was devoted to profession. On returning home from the war, he found 
himself penniless, not even a horse to ride. He did not wait to buy a horse, 
but, throwing his saddlebags across his shoulder, he went about on foot 
administering to the sufferings of his people, many of whom, like himself, were 
reduced to poverty by the ravages of the war. As a citizen, he was alive to the 
best interests of his country, and whenever questions in volving morals, 
education or Christianity were at public issue, he was always found on the right 
side................

Additional Comments:
He is buried in the Old Ashland Cemetery.

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