WILLIAM WATERS/WALTERS/Barrett Family Branches

WILLIAM WATERS

William Waters (Watters, Walters) was born in about 1824 in Tennessee, and his wife, Eliza, was born in about 1824 in Alabama. Their oldest two children were born in Mississippi, and the youngest in Texas. It appears that the family moved to Texas in about 1857, as William is included in the 1858 Montgomery County tax list. He rendered no land, but he rendered and paid taxes on two slaves, two horses, and a wagon.
At the time of the 1860 census, William lived in the vicinity of Danville. W. Watters was a farmer with personal property valued at $2,000 and no land of his own. The personal property consisted, at least in part, of two slaves, who were counted in the 1860 slave census.
Living in the household was J. C. Barron, a school teacher, who was from Alabama.
William joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen on May 4, 1861, a militia unit formed in Montgomery County under Captain Samuel D. Wooldridge, M. D.
William Waters is listed in the membership rolls of San Jacinto Masonic Lodge 106, which met in Danville until it moved to Willis in 1873.
His name is not found in the roster of the Confederate army, and it appears that he was over-age and not required to serve.

During the war, William signed a petition in Danville as William Walters
By 1870, William and his wife were living in Walker County and were enumerated as Wm. Watters and Eliza Watters. Their daughter, Martha, age sixteen, born in Mississippi, is the only child left in the family.
Also living in the family was 55-year-old John Conn, who had also served under Captain Wooldridge. His occupation was given as farm hand, but it's possible there were family ties, also.
It is thought that this is the same William and Eliza (McDow or Green) Waters whose daughter, Elizabeth, married William Robert Barrett in Montgomery County in 1866. This Eliza is buried in the Barrett-Burrows Cemetery in Madison County.
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