Surname Saturday - Walters
Mary Ann Walters (1826-1921)
Earlier in the Offill Surname posting we identified one of Nancy’s great-grandparent couples as:
Norman David Wilson (1844-1914) married Mary Ellen Offill (1854-1934). Her parents were:
James A. Offill (1819-1904) married Mary Ann Walters (1826-1921).
The parents of Mary Ann Walters (1826-1921) were:
Matthias Walters (1800-1880) married Elizabeth Betsy Anna O’Neil (1792-1831).
They had three children, Rhoda Jane Walters (1821-1872), Mary Ann Walters (1826-1921), and Franklin Walters (1830-1907). The mother died in 1831. He remarried and that wife died a few years later. He married a third time to Barbara Ann Smith and they had six more children. Nancy had nothing recorded on the parents of Matthias, though I know she spent a lot of time researching him and his first three children. Franklin settled in Kansas, so we followed his family in depth.
She has that he was Scotch, and a surveyor in Indiana. Born in either Tennessee or Virginia, per census records, he had Land Grants and was on Tax Lists in Kentucky in 1839-1841.
When the children were grown, she stayed in Kentucky and he went to Lawrence County, OH, where he died in 1880 at the age of 80.
This one sounds like it would be interesting to research further back.
ReplyDeleteThere certainly appears to be much room for good work here, not that far back. Yes. ;-)
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