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Dr Nathaniel B Edwards
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(Published in the Union City Alert, Jan 30, 1913)
Submitted by Dale Talkington
He took medical lectures at Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio. He practiced medicine for some time in Charleston, South Carolina.
When the Civil War broke out, he joined the 4th North Carolina Infantry as he was a Union sympathizer. He practiced medicine some in the army. He was promoted to the place of Lieutenant of his Company. After the close of the war he practiced medicine in Tennessee, coming to Oklahoma fifteen years ago, locating in Union City, where he practiced until his health would no longer permit.
He married his present companion in 1887. He died at his home in Union City on January 21, 1913, at the age of 82 years.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. McDermond at the M.E. Church on Friday, January 24th.
Interment was in the Union City Cemetery.