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.
