The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-06
DIR. w. M. OWEN DIES
 AT HOME OF HIS SON
Was for Many Years Prominent in the Public Affairs of
 Alabama

Dora, November 5.-(Special )-After a long and useful life, Dr. William Marma- duke Owen, age 77. died here this after noon at o'clock. He passed away at the home of his son, pr. Gaines Owen. For some months Dr. Owen had been in failing health, and he was temporarily residing with his son, in order to the better have his care and attention. His death Is not to be attributed to any spe- cial cause other than the giving away of the body from advanced age. Dr. Owen had led an extremely active life, and notwithstanding he had great vital ity, very naturally the strain of years weighed heavily upon him, hastening his death The members of his family were with him at the end. He went peace fully to his last rest.
 pr. owen was born in Tuscaloosa, De- cember 1. 1885. His father. Judge Thomas Owen, came to the state in the terri torial times, and was commissioned as an attorney by Governor William w. Bibb, first territorial governor, in ISIS He located In Tuscaloosa, and long prac- ticed law in that city. His father, Col. Richardson owen, was revolutionary soldier and an early settler of Tusca- loosa., where he died. The mother of pr. owen was Dolly Payne Williams, daughter of Marmaduke Williams, for three terms a member of congress from North Carolina, and a member of the first constitutional convention of Ala bana, in 1879, from Tuscaloosa county. The owen and Williams families were from Virginia, through North Carolina to Alabama.
 pr. owen was educated in the city schools of Tuscaloosa, and at the State University. He served four years in the Confederate army. He was d member of the Mobile Rifles, which on January 3, 1861, assisted in taking Mt. Vernon arr senal Receiving a commission from Gov ernor A. B. Moore as lieutenant, he served one year in Capt. Stephen B. winston's company B, First Alabama ar tillery battalion at Fort Morgan. He then resigned because of a desire to go to the front, and in 1862 he united in raising a company for the Thirty-sixth Alabama infantry regiment. He served for a while as a private in Company K, but was soon promoted to a lieutenancy in Company D. He served with his regi- ment from 1862 to 1851, through all the ca ampaigns of the western army, and was "a blurred on July 22, 1864. in command of his company, in the battle near Atlanta. He was carried to Johnson's Island pris- on. where he remained until the close of the war
 After the war he located in Tuscaloosa, and on January 15, 1s66 he was married to Miss Nancy L. McAdory, daughter of Mai. Thomas McAdory of Jonesboro Choosing the medical profession he en- tered the Mobile Medical College, from which he graduated in 1872. For four years he resided in Texas, but returned to Alabama in 1875. He resided in Jef- ferson, Bibb and Walker counties, but his home from 1887 to his death was in Jefferson county. He was a member of the Bessemer lodge of Masons, and also an ordained local preacher of the Metho- dist church He was a member of Camr McAdory, United Confederate Veterans at Bessemer
 pr. Owen is survived by his wife and by the following children: Dr. Thomas I'M. Owen of Montgomery, Dr. Gaines Owen of Dora, MT. Wellington M. Ower of west Point, Miss. Mrs. F. P. Rosa mond of Birmingham, Mrs. William B Hope of wylam. Mrs. Frank R. Rylane | of Birmingham and Miss Dolly William: Owea of Montgomery. He is also sur ytyed by numerous relatives throughou,
 Alabama and other parts of the south