Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Owens, S. W. April 11 1853 - living 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  S. W. OWENS, M. D., a physician of Bluff Springs, Ala., is a son of Sebron W.
and Nancy L. (Tate) Owens. The father of Sebron W. Owens came to this country
from Wales when a young man, was a school teacher by profession, married and
reared his family in Wilkes county, Ga. Sebron W. Owens was born in that county,
was a mechanic by trade, and died in Wilkes county, in 1855, when Dr. S. W.
Owens was one year old. His mother married again, the second time to Sebron
Jones. Dr. Owens was the only child by the first marriage, but by her second
marriage his mother had two children, Alice T., now the wife of Dr. A. J. Nolen,
of New Site, Ala., and Robert O., a physician at Fish Pond, Ala. Dr. S. W. Owens
was born April 11, 1853, in Danburg, Wilkes county, Ga. He was reared on a farm
in the eastern part of Coosa county, Ala., and his early education was received
at the country schools. At the age of eighteen he went to Texas, and lived five
years in Smith county, working on a farm. In 1875, when in Texas, he began
reading medicine with a cousin, Dr. H. L. Tate, and after reading medicine there
a year he moved back again to Coosa county, and there continued the study of
medicine with Dr. A. J. Nolen. In 1882-3 he took lectures at Louisville Medical
college, and in the following year he passed an examination under the examining
board of Clay county. He has been practicing medicine since 1883 in the
immediate vicinity of his home. He was married January 22, 1880, in Coosa
county, to Eliza T. Nolen, daughter of Hon. R. S. Nolen, of Coosa, county, by
whom he has six children, viz.: Arthur Hazelton, Sebron Jackson, Estin Talula,
Robert Battey, Victoria Bell, Darsey Nolan. Politically, Dr. Owens is a
democrat. He is a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
and he is steward of his church. He is a member of the State Medical
association, and is vice-president of the Clay County Medical society. Besides
his professional practice the doctor is interested in real estate and farming
lands, and has a farm of 120 acres. He is an excellent physician and a genial
gentleman, lives in a fine home at Bluff Springs, and is very popular with all
classes of people. 

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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 649


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