Father: Franklin Lewis Owen (1803-1879)
Mother: Elizabeth Cincinnatus Maury (1810-1897)
12/20/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as "Goromy Owen" )
1854 - A.B. degree, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1855-1857 - Attended, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA
1857 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from : AL; preceptors: Dr. LeVert & Dr. Knott; thesis: "Yellow Fever")
1859 - Demonstrator of Anatomy, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
~1859 - Married, Susan Norris (1835-1907)
09/29/1860 - Practiced medicine, Southern Division, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Susan, and one child - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Goronwy Owen)
12/02/1861 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Mobile, AL, District of Alabama, Confederate States Army
04/17/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 03/04/1862
07/25/1862 - In a letter to Surgeon G. Owen from Francis Armstrong Ross, Medical Director, Mobile, AL, District of the Gulf, "Sir, You are hereby relieved from duty at Fort Gaines. You will report for duty as Surgeon in charge of the Convalescent Hospital near Mobile, AL"
08/01/1862 - Stationed as Surgeon, Spring Hill, AL
09/01/1862 - Surgeon-in-charge, Convalescent Hospital
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon from Alabama by the Confederate States Senate
11/01/1862 - As Surgeon-in-charge, Convalescent Hospital [Spring Hill, AL, six miles from Mobile, AL], ordered 3 bales of hay "for filling Bed sacks for he use of the sick in the Hospital"
12/01/1862 - Surgeon, Convalescent Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
01/31/1863 - Surgeon, Convalescent Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
03/03/1863 - While a Surgeon, Convalescent Hospital, Spring Hill, AL, submitted a requisition to the Quartermaster Dept. for two tents "necessary for the use of the Guard at Convalescent Hospital in consequence of the houses now occupied by the Guard being required for use of the Scholars on the hill."
09/01/1863 - Surgeon, Miller Gen. Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
10/24/1863 - Surgeon, Miller Gen. Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
01/01/1864 - Surgeon, Miller Gen. Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
03/24/1864 - Surgeon, Miller Gen. Hospital, Spring Hill, AL
05/25/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Miller Gen. Hospital, Mobile, AL, District of the Gulf
08/26/1864 - Surgeon, Miller Hospital, Greenville, AL
09/30/1864 - As Surgeon-in-charge, Miller Hospital, Greenville, AL, signed a receipt for six coffins "to bury men who died at General Hospital 'Miller', Greenville, Ala. during the month of September 1864"
11/24/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Miller Hospital, Greenville, AL
12/20/1864 - Surgeon, Miller Hospital, Greenville, AL
01/00/1865 - Surgeon, Miller Hospital, Greenville, AL
05/13/1865 - As Surgeon, Army of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, paroled by the U.S. Army, Meridian, MS
After CW - Practiced medicine with Dr. Edward Gaines, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
06/17/1870 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Susan, and three children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as G. Owen)
1871 - Treasurer, Mobile Medical Society
1871 - Delegate from Mobile, AL, to the annual meeting of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama
1871 - Elected, 3d Vice President, Medical Association of the State of Alabama
08/10/1879 - Father, Franklin, died in Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
06/04/1880 - Practiced medicine, Port of Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Susan, two sons, and one daughter - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Goronwy Owen)
1883 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
09/15/1883 - Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
07/25/1897 - Mother, Elizabeth, died in Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
06/08/1900 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Susan, one daughter, one son, one daughter-in-law, and two grandsons - indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as "Geronwy Owen" )
- Practiced medicine with his son, Dr. Calvin Norris Owen (1863-1924)
03/29/1903 - Died "at his home from paralysis", 401 Congress St., Mobile, Mobile Co, AL (cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage; buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co. AL)
00/00/1904 - Widow, Susan, lived at 401 Congress, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
06/23/1907 - Widow, Susan, died (buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co. AL)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/07/2016. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Tim Childree, the creator of this memorial:

DR. GORONWY OWEN HAS PASSED AWAY

Death came Sunday morning at 9:35 o'clock to end suffering.

Dr. Goronwy Owen, the best known physician in this city, and probably the most loved man in it, died Sunday morning at 9:35 o'clock after an illness of about three weeks. The funeral will take place this morning at 11 o'clock from Trinity Church; burial in Magnolia Cemetery.

On the 18th of March Dr. Owen was in his office as usual and was attending to his patients. About 11 o'clock he was suddenly stricken with paralysis and was taken to his home in an unconscious condition. From the very first Dr. Goode and the other physicians in attendance realized that death was almost a certainty and held out no hope to the family of the stricken man. Several days after he was stricken Dr. Owen rallied partly and became conscious, able to talk and recognize his family. From that time he gradually became worse, and Saturday night began to sink. At midnight he was thought to be dead, but rallied again, showing wonderful vitality, and lived for several hours after.

Probably no physician in Mobile held so much of the true love of his patients as Dr. Owen, and he in turn loved them, being ready at all times to sacrifice himself for them. He was full of the truest charity toward all and showed it in substantial form on numerous occasions.

Dr. Owen was born in Mobile on the 11th of November, 1834 and was the son of Franklin L. and Elizabeth Maury Owen. His mother belonged to a well known French family and traced her descent from James Maury, who was a Huguenot and was forced to leave his native country after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. On his father's side Dr. Owen traced his descent straight back to Goronwy Owen, the founder of the family in America. He came to this country in 1756 from Wales, and the name given him there has survived all these years. Every generation since his has had the name Goronwy in it.

Dr. Owen was educated in the schools of Mobile preparatory for college, and in 1850 entered the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, where he was graduated with honors in 1854. He then returned to Mobile, where he took up the study of Medicine with Drs. Le Vert and Knott, at that time the leading physicians of the city. In 1855 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1857 he was rewarded with the degree of doctor of medicine and at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Mobile. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army as a surgeon and served in that capacity all during the four years of that war.

After the war Dr. Owen returned to Mobile, where he formed a partnership with Dr. Edward Gaines, the two practicing together until the latter's death some years ago. Lately he has had as his partner in the practice of medicine his son, Calvin N. For a number of years he had been professor of obstetrics in the Medical College in Mobile.

Dr. Owen is survived by his wife, who was Miss Susan Norris, daughter of Calvin Norris, a prominent factor and commission merchant of Mobile, and two sons, Goronwy, of Columbus, Miss., and Dr. Calvin N., of Mobile, and one daughter, Mrs. Susie O. Quigley, of Mobile. Two brothers, George W. Owen, of Columbus, Miss., and Richard B. Owen, of Mobile, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Maury, of Mobile, also survive him, besides a number of other relatives.

The Mobile Register
Tuesday, March 31, 1903