The Descendants
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| 81 | M | i | Heyward WALTERS 1, 2 was born on 27 Dec 1916 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 7 Apr 1919 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA. | |
| 82 | M | ii | Donald Howard WALTERS 1, 2, 3 was born on 11 Apr 1919 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 5 Mar 1995 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. | |
| 83 | iii | WALTERS was buried 1 in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA. | ||
| 84 | M | iv | Wilbur C WALTERS 1, 2, 3 was born on 26 May 1921 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 17 Aug 1983 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Fisher Methodist Church Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA. MILITARY: WWII |
40. Hezzie Andrew WALTERS 1, 2, 3, 4 (Warren Washington WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 4 Feb 1897 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 9 Sep 1957 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried 5 in Bethel Baptist Church Cemtery, Washington Parish, LA.
CENSUS: 1920 Washington Parish, LA Ed 138 Ward 1 Pct 1 pg 6b
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Hezzie Walters Head Owns M W 22 Mrd LA MS LA General Farming
Zula Wife F W 22 Mrd LA LA LA Keeping House
Hilda Dau F W 2 S LA LA LA
Tom Stringfield Boarder M W 16 S LA LA LA Sawmill Laborer
(living next door to B M & Fleeda Fisher)CENSUS: 1930 Washington Parish, ED 1, Franklinton Ward 1, pg 14a
Hezzie A Walters Head O 2000 M W 32 Wd (20) LA MS LA
Hilda Dau F W 12 S LA LA LA
Claude Son M W 8 S LA LA LA
Hezzie married 3 (1) Zula STRINGFIELD 1, 2 on 28 Sep 1916 in Washington Parish, LA. Zula was born on 1 Dec 1897 in Washington Parish, LA. She died on 24 May 1929 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried 4 in Bethel Baptist Church Cemtery, Washington Parish, LA.
They had the following children:
+ 85 F i Hilda Elois WALTERS 86 M ii Claude Adolph WALTERS 1, 2 was born on 24 Jul 1920 in Washington Parish, LA. He died 3 in May 1978 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Bonner Creek Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA. Claude married Wilma Adriene WASCOM, daughter of Ansel Faires WASKOM and Lenore D JONES. Wilma was born on 27 Oct 1927 in Washington Parish, LA. She died on 14 Dec 1977 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Bonner Creek Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA.
Hezzie also married 2 (2) Velma Lillie MILLER 1 in Jun 1930 in Washington Parish, LA. Velma died on 23 Nov 1983 in Washington Parish, LA.
They had the following children:
87 M iii Living 88 M iv Willie Ralph WALTERS 1 was born on 30 Oct 1934 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 6 Feb 2000 in Hammond, St. Tammany Parish, LA and was buried in Holden Cemetery, Albany, LA.
OBITUARY: Bogalusa Daily News
WILLIE RALPH WALTERS
Died February 6, 2000
ALBANY, LA - The funeral service for Willie Ralph Walters, age 65, will be
held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Geisler Funeral Home in Albany.
A former resident of Franklinton, he was living in Holden at the time
of his death.
Visitation will be held today from 6 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
He is survived by a son, Willie Ralph Walters Jr. of Colunbus, OH; a
daughter, Carol Ann Ballard of Holden; three brothers, Jewel Walters of
Wichita Falls, TX, Bruce Walters of Baton Rouge and Dale Walters of
Franklinton; two sisters, Virginia Walters Miller of Franklinton and
Betty Walters Wallace of Arab, AL
He was preceded in death by his father, Hezzie Walters; his mother,
Velma Lillie Miller Walters; a brother Claude Walters; and a sister,
Milda Walters Rousell of Calhoun, TN.89 F v Living 90 F vi Living 91 M vii Living 92 M viii Living
41. Altha Cordelia WALTERS "Althea" 1, 2, 3, 4 (Warren Washington WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 6 Feb 1899 in Washington Parish, LA. She died 5 on 20 Oct 1981 in Washington Parish, LA and was buried 6 in Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA.
Althea married 5 Mike Leroy FISHER 1, 2, 3, 4, son of John Morris FISHER and Francis Aderine BROOKS, on 17 Dec 1925 in Washington Parish, LA. Mike was born on 11 Nov 1897 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 3 Sep 1972 in Washington Parish, LA.
There's a road in Franklinton named after him.
CENSUS: 1930 Washington Parish, LA, ED 1, Franklinton, pg 10b (20)
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Mike L Fisher Head O 1200 M W 32 Md (27) LA LA LA General Farmer
Althea Wife F W 31 Md (26) LA MS LA
Aline Dau F W 3 5mos LA LA LA
Eloise Dau F W 2 3mos LA LA LA
Hester Dau F W 5 mos LA LA LA
They had the following children:
+ 93 F i Alyne FISHER + 94 F ii Ivel Eloise FISHER 95 F iii Hester Aree FISHER 1, 2 was born on 12 Nov 1929 in Washington Parish, LA. She died on 15 Mar 1998 and was buried in Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. 96 F iv Living 97 F v Living
42. William Horace WALTERS Sr "Horace" 1, 2, 3 (Warren Washington WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 11 Nov 1900 in Washington Parish, LA. He died 4 in Jul 1985 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA and was buried 5 in Ponemah Cemetery, Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA.
Horace married Etta R. Etta was born on 12 Jul 1900. She died 1 in Feb 1975 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA and was buried 2 in Ponemah Cemetery, Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA.
They had the following children:
98 M i William Horace WALTERS Jr was born in 1936 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA. He died in 1936 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA and was buried 1 in Ponemah Cemetery, Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA.
44. John Morris FISHER "Jack" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Mary Elizabeth WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 22 Dec 1896 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. He died in Apr 1952 in Dallas, Dallas, TX from Heart attack and was buried in Dallas, Dallas, TX.
Jack married Gladys Lorene DUNN 1 in 1920 in Smith Co, TX. Gladys was born 2 about 1906 in Starville, Smith, TX. She died on 27 Mar 1991 in Dallas, Dallas, TX and was buried in Dallas, Dallas, TX.
They had the following children:
+ 99 M i Living + 100 F ii Living
47. Sandy Iddo FISHER 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Mary Elizabeth WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 22 Dec 1906 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. He died on 28 Oct 1959 in Palestine, Anderson, TX from heart attack and stroke and was buried in Holly Springs Cemetery, Montalba, Anderson, TX. Sandy was employed as Lone Star Gas pipeline 1930s in Dallas, Dallas, TX. He was employed as Upholsterer 1950s in Palestine, Anderson, TX. He was employed as Fireman in Houston, Harris, TX. He joined religion Baptist.
Sandy was the fourth of five surviving children. With his red hair and freckled complexion, he was the mischevious one of the bunch with a fiery temper and easy grin. He was also a very sentimental man who took the death of his mother very hard. His Christian faith was one he lived day in and day out and one he and Bonnie passed on to their children.
Not much is known about his early childhood in Louisiana. His family moved to Texas from Louisiana between 1912 and 1920. They had first lived in the Starville area of Smith County and later moved to the Bois D'Arc area of Anderson County where Sandy helped his father farm. He made fast friends that the Denman brothers in that area and Sandy used to tell his daughters about some of their adventures. By the late 1920s, he, his little brother Levie and their parents had moved to Dallas where Sandy went to work for the Lone Star Gas Company. This was where he was working when he met and married Bonnie. After the birth of their first child, Helen Marie, Sandy's mother and adopted brother, James Billy Fisher, moved in with them. The whole family moved back to Anderson County where Sandy tried farming again. However, this was during the Depression, and one year all the crops except the sweet potatoes failed and that's what they had to live on for several months. His daughter, Louise, recounts that it was many years before he could stand to look another sweet potato.
By 1942, they were living in Houston where Sandy was working as a fireman with the Houston Fire Department. He also worked as an automobile mechanic. It was in Houston in 1943 that their second child, Anna Louise, was born.
By early 1946, Sandy health (never that robust) began to decline. They packed up their black 1968 Dodge and moved back to East Texas. At various times, they lived in the Bois A'Arc, Lone Pine and Montalba communities in northern Anderson County. Sandy worked as an upholsterer and an automobile mechanic.
In early 1953, Sandy had his first heart attack. The doctors said that he would probably not live more than six months. He lived over six years but was never well enough to hold a job after that. It must have been hard for him to know that his wife, Bonnie, was the bread winner of the family. He did try to stay as busy as his failing body would let him - farming a small truck garden and learning marquetry and parquet techniques to apply to tables and chests.
HEALTH: Was disabled for the last 7 years of his life due to heart attacks and strokes.RELIGION: Baptist
Sandy married Bonnie Moore WADE 1, 2, 3, 4, daughter of Harmon Allen WADE Sr and Mattie Dean HOLLAND, on 8 Jul 1933 in Dallas, Dallas, TX. Bonnie was born on 27 Jan 1912 in Ft Worth, Tarrant, TX. She died 5, 6 on 18 Aug 1983 in Palestine, Anderson, TX and was buried in Holly Springs Cemetery, Montalba, Anderson, TX. Bonnie joined religion Baptist. She was employed as Secretary @ Insurance Agency.
EDUCATION: Business College
Graduated Salutatorian of her high school class. She earned a choral scholarship to Julliard and turned it down to get married to Ishmael Land.
When her husband Sandy became debilitated with heart trouble, she was the sole bread winner of the house as a secretary for the Kenderdine Agency.
She was a Sunday School teacher for many years for the Southside Baptist Church and lived the example that she taught.HEALTH: Died from pancreatic cancer, also had diabetes, high blood pressure, gout and ostearthritis in her knees.
OBITUARY: Palestine Herald Press, Friday, August 19, 1983, pg 8
Mrs. Fisher
Funeral services for Bonnie Fisher, 71, of Old Boston Road, Palestine, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Southside Baptist Church with Rev. Dwight Blankenship and Benny Burleson officiating. Burial will be in Holly Springs Cemetery, Montalba, under the direction of Hassell & Foster Funeral Home.
Mrs. Fisher died Thurday in Anderson County Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Bonnie Moore Wade, Mrs. Fisher was born Jan. 27, 1912 in Fort Worth, a daughter of Harmon Allen Wade Sr. and Mattie Rose Holland Wade. She had resided in Palestine for the past 16 years and was a member of Southside Baptist Church.
Her husband, Lewis Fisher, died in 1977.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Jack L. (Helen) Cook of Palestine and Mrs. Louise Anderson of Nacogdoches; a sister, Mrs. R. L. (Lena) Hale of Wichita Falls, seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Jack Cook Jr., Joe Bob Cook, Dean Cook, Gary Hobbs, Ronald Hardin, Paul Wofford and Michael Goff.
Condolence calls will be received at the Jack Cook residence, Old Boston Road.RELIGION: Baptist
They had the following children:
+ 101 F i Living + 102 F ii Living
48. William Levie FISHER 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Mary Elizabeth WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 25 Oct 1911 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. He died on 23 Mar 1977 in Dallas, Dallas, TX from heart attack and was buried 6 in Restland Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas, TX.
His middle name is pronounce LEEVEE not LEEVI.
RELIGION: Members of Gaston Ave Baptist Church 1930s-1940s.
William married Bertha Evelyn ARNWINE on 11 Nov 1932 in Dallas, Dallas, TX. Bertha was born on 10 Dec 1906. She died on 23 Jan 1985 in Dallas, Dallas, TX and was buried in Restland, Dallas, Dallas, TX.
They had the following children:
103 M i Festus Eugene FISHER 1 was born on 20 Nov 1935 in Dallas, Dallas, TX. He died on 22 Nov 1935 in Dallas, Dallas, TX. 104 F ii Living Living married (1) Living Living also married (2) Living
49. James Billy FISHER 1, 2, 3 (Mary Elizabeth WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 30 Jun 1924 in Crossroads, Henderson, TX. He died on 14 Apr 1993 in New Orleans, New Orleans, LA and was buried in Bulloch I Cemetery, Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. He had other parents.
MILITARY: Navy - WWII
OBITUARY: The Baton Rouge Advocate
April 15, 1993
pg 4C
FISHER, JAMES BILLY
Died Wednesday, April 14, 1993, at 11:18 a.m. at Veterans Administration Hospital, New Orleans. He was 68, a resident of Covington and a native of Crossroads, Texas. He was a Shipbuilding Industry welder and a U.S. Army and Navy veteran. Visiting at Schoen Funeral Home, 1414 S. Tyler St., Covington, 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday.
Religious services at the funeral home chapel at 1 p.m. Friday.
Interment in Bulloch-Thomas-Pittman Cemetery, Franklinton. Survived by wife, Nellie Achord Fisher; three daughters, Debbie "Pug" Fisher and Libby Constanzi, both of Covington, and Gwen Fisher, Walker; two sons, James Lee Fisher, Covington, and Robert Dale Fisher, Walker.BIOGRAPHY: James Billy Fisher's mother, Margaret Lydia Pittman Fisher, died from the complications of his birth. At that time, his father, Tom, was grief stricken and had 10 other children to raise. So, he took Bill to his brother, Gene, and asked him to raise Bill. Gene and Lizzie, his wife, agreed to do so on the condition that they would adopt him. They knew in their hearts that if they cared for him, they would never be able to let him go. A few years went by and Tom came to Texas to get Bill. He felt that he was in a position to raise him now. Gene would have none of it and threatened to shoot him if he tried to take his boy. Tom left and the whole family was heart broken over this rift between brothers. However, as Bill got older, he was able to visit his family in Washington Parish and get to know his natural brothers and sisters and was, I believe, very close to most of them. In fact, he lived in Louisiana most of his adult life even though he always talked about moving back to Texas.
RELIGION: Baptist
They had the following children:
105 M i Living + 106 F ii Living + 107 M iii Living 108 F iv Living + 109 F v Living
52. Eula WALTERS 1, 2, 3 (Andrew H WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 31 Aug 1902 in Washington Parish, LA. She died 4 on 7 Nov 1988 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA.
Eula married Houston B CREEL 1 in Washington Parish, LA. Houston was born about 1905 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 2 Feb 1985 in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, LA and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA.
OBITUARY: BOGALUSA DAILY NEWS, 3 Feb 1985
Houston B. Creel
February 2, 1985
BOGALUSA - Houston B. Creel, 80, a resident of Route 3, Franklinton, died at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, February 2nd, at the Baton Rouge General Hospital in Baton Rouge.
A member of the Bethel Baptist Church, he was a retired employee of the Louisiana Department of Highways and was a dairy farmer.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eula Walters Creel of Franklinton; two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Josephine) Hoggatt and Mrs. Gerald (Helen) Welch, both of Franklinton; a son, Charley Creel of Baton Rouge; a brother, Mack Creel of Wilmer, Louisiana; eight grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
The body lay in state at the Crain Funeral Home in Franklinton until the time for funeral services, which were conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, February 4th, in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Greg Williams, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, officiating.
Interment was in the Bethel Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Wilbur Creel, Billy Creel, Bobby McDaniel, James Walters, Sherwood McDaniel, and Ashley Stringfield.
They had the following children:
110 F i Living Living married Living 111 F ii Living Living married Living 112 M iii Living
53. Living (Andrew H WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely )
They had the following children:
113 M i Living 114 M ii Living
54. Atley A WALTERS 1, 2, 3 (Andrew H WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 15 Jul 1907 in Washington Parish, LA. He died 4 on 25 Nov 1996 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA. Atley joined religion Baptist - Sunday School Teacher.
They had the following children:
115 M i Living 116 F ii Living 117 F iii Living 118 M iv Living
55. Clyde E WALTERS 1, 2, 3, 4 (Andrew H WALTERS , Amarintha SHOEMAKE , Elijah , Blakely ) was born on 19 Aug 1909 in Washington Parish, LA. He died 5 in Oct 1969 in Franklinton, Washington Parish, LA.
He donated 8 hours of labor towards building the new Bethel Baptist Church.
CENSUS: 1930 Washington Parish, LA, ED 1, Franklinton, pg 14a
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Clyde E Walters Head O 1000 M W 20 Md (17) LA LA LA General Farmer
Lester Wife F W 21 Md (18) LA LA LA
Wilford Son M W 2 3mos LA LA LA
Jerald Son M W 5 mos LA LA LA
They had the following children:
119 M i Living 120 M ii Gerald Spencer WALTERS 1 was born on 6 Dec 1929 in Washington Parish, LA. He died on 6 Oct 1961 and was buried in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Washington Parish, LA.
