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G. SIDNEY WAITS, JR.

A Native Son of

• Born December 29, 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama at home 906 East Three Notch Street
• Married Polly L. Wilder on June 20,1947 at the First Baptist Church downtown and this year we will have celebrated our 65th anniversary
• Two children
  • Mary Evelyn - Married Maclin F. Smith III of Birmingham. Their children are Virginia Bentley, Maclin F. IV, and Yeates.Bentley married Bradford Sloan on Jan. 21, 2006. They are both graduates from the University of Alabama. Bentley has completed all her studies and is now a Licensed CPA.She is employed by one of the large CPA firms in Birmingham. We are very proud of her. Brad is a banker and at work with The 1st Commercial Bank in Birmingham. Mac is employed by a large construction company in Montgomery. He is currently working as a project manager on work down the Tuscaloosa highway near the County line. Yeates is working as a waiter in one of the upscale restaurants at the Sumit in Birmingham. He likes his work and is doing well.
  • George Sidney III - Married Jean Buckmaster and they have seven children; George IV, Luke, Libby, Marianna, Abigail, Sterling, and Shepherd. George IV has graduated from Bio-Engineering at UAB.As scheduled he entered the School of Medicine and is doing well in his freshman year. Luke graduated from Auburn where he was in the Air Force ROTC Program. He is now a 1st Lt. and has completed flight training over at Columbus,MS.From there he went to Washington State where he went through a survival course.He was assigned to Oklahoma City to learn to fly the Awax plane .He has finished much of this training and is assigned to Ellemdorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska. He has reported for duty at his new assignment. Libby is working with a software company headquartered in Atlanta. Marianna received her Masters from Auburn and is currently living in Auburn and teaching in a nearby school. Abigail is in her Freshman year at Auburn. She is one of the "Tiger Paws" a support group for athletics. Sterling Shaver and Shepherd are being home schooled. Sterling continues her interest in art and has been awarded several ribbons for her work. Shepherd has been involved with the home school basketball team. The team has done well and was just a couple of wins away from a championship.
  • I Retired from Anderson's Peanuts in 1987. Since that time I have worked as a volunteer at the local Three Notch Museum. It is a local history museum and features several rail cars and items of interest to railroad buffs. There is an extensive collection of photographs and many other local history items. I also enjoy writing history of local interest. I have published several booklets on various local history items. One of my latest booklets is on "E.L.More's River Falls Power Company". It is a story of the construction of the two dams on the Conecuh River. It brought forth the first commercial quantity of electricty to 9 counties in South Alabama. Actually it was also the beginning of industrial development in the area. If interested the booklet sells for $8.00 plus $2.00 for postage.
  Andalusia celebrated its Reunion in November 2010 along with other small cities in Alabama. I completed and published a new book as my contribution to the Reunion Year. The title of the booklet is "The Three Notches in Andalusia". The booklet is a story of East Three Notch, South Three Notch and the Three Notch Court. Reading the booklet is like walking down each side of the streets. It is a nicely paper back bound booklet with 53 pages. It sells for $10.00 plus postage of $2.00. If interested you can contact me at 334-222-4922.

  Past President of the Andalusia Rotary Club and the Andalusia Chamber of Commerce

  Member of the Friends of the Alabama Archives Also a member of the Pea River Genealogical Society and the Alabama Hisorical Association.
  Served on Board of Trustees at Judson College, Marion, Alabama for 13 years. I have been a member of First Baptist Church since membership in the Primary Department. I still have my diploma signifying my graduation. I was baptised on September 1, 1939 in the old Church downtown, of course. I was selected to serve as a deacon while in the old Church.

  Here is a photo of Our very first Great Grandchild. He was born in Birmingham March 12th at St. Vincents Hospital. Mother and Cobb Winchester Sloan are doing well at home. This is his first appearance on the World wide Web. He is the son of Bentley and Brad Sloan and grandparents Maclin and Mary Evelyn Smith. On the Sloan side of the family Bill and Lynn Sloan are Cobb's grandparents also. Emmie (Mary Evelyn) his grandmother says he is sooooo cute. From his pictures we think so too.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  I enjoy local history and I invite you to check out my link to Local History.
  
  I am interested in Genealogy relating to the Waits, Brown, Henderson, Shaver, McIntosh, Wilder, Bartlette, Ray and Deer families.I have just published a staple bound soft cover booklet on the Mark Waits Family. I sell it for $25.00 plus $2.00 postage to anyone interested. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Also available is my book on "The John Shaver Family". It is $25.00 plus $2.00 postage also, same garantee.
  
  I am a member of the Covington Historical Society and it's project The Three Notch Museum which is a local history museum for Andalusia and Covington County, Alabama.It also features several rail cars including two cabooses, a box car containing a model train layout. Mrs. Linda Castleberry has donated a Thomas The Tank railroad exhibit for the younger kids. It is an extensive layout and is a very attractive exhibit. A maintainence MotorCar is also on site. Also we have a log cabin that dates back to the late 1880's. The Clark Family donated the cabin. The River Falls Post office is also on site and it has been completely restored.
  
  I served in World War II in the Panama Canal Zone for 27 months. I was sent for my basic training to Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis. There I entered Army Finance School where I learned how to make a payroll and pay officers and enlisted soldiers. On several return trips to Panama since the war, my wife and I have visited close friends who live there today. We have traveled with Jaime & Silvia Lasso to all provinces of Panama including the Darien province area and into Costa Rica. We would love to return to Panama to see all the recent development in an amazing Country. Now with the construction of the new and much larger locks, Panama is looking toward a bright future. Many people from Germany,Spain,Canada and the U.S.A. are retiring in Panama. Our friends, the Lassos, have a weekend place in the Coronado area and have told us recently, they now have a McDonalds in Coronado. It is a small world indeed. The Lassos love to travel and do so at every opportunity. We had the pleasure of traveling with them on our trip to Russia some years ago. It was a memorable time for both of us. Their son Jimmo who was an outstanding physician in Panama has been named Ambassador to South Korea. He has moved his family to Korea and they are impressed and happy with the assignment there. Jaime and Silvia took an extensive trip to visit their son in South Korea. After a 10 day visit with him they left for Bejing China for a few days there. Jaime headed a delagation from Panama several years back. He wanted Silvia to see Bejing where he visited many years ago. He was Chairman of the Chamber Of Commerce and they were on a trade mission. Following their stay in Bejing they flew to Tokyo for a visit there. They flew home from Tokyo. If you would like to see the ships as they go through Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal try the live camera site on the Panama Canal Link. Select the "English" version in lower right hand corner. Click on the "web cam" link. The website is www.pancanal.com
  

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