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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
• 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. They both work and attend school at night and on weekends in an effort to get their CPA tickets. Mac works in sales with Tractor Equipment Company in Birmingham. Yeates is working as a ski lift mechanic at Big Sky Resort in Montanta.
  • George Sidney III - Married Jean Buckmaster and they have seven children; George IV, Luke, Libby, Marianna, Abigail, Sterling, and Shepherd. George IV is planning to work at a Boy Scout Camp this summer and enter one of the state Universities in the Fall. Luke, Marianna and Libby are at Auburn. Luke is a Junior and is in the Air Force ROTC program, Marianna and Libby are Sophmores. Luke has been accepted for pilot training and will attend school out west this summer.
• 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 history items.

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

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 postpaid to anyone interested. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Also available is my book on "The John Shaver Family". It is $25.00 also.

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. A maintainence MotorCar is also on site.

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 was sent to 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 toall 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. 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.