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Note: Military: May 5, 1862, William L. Waters enlisted in Company �B�, 56th Georgia Infantry of the Confederate States of America. This unit was drawn from Carroll and surrounding counties and he enlisted in the town of Carrollton. Military: "CONFEDERATE MILITARY RECORDS"; Wallace State, Hanceville, Alabama Page # 1 Watters, W. L. Co. "B", 56th Georgia Infantry (Confederate) Private Card Numbers: 46215358 48248601 Number of Medical Cards Within - 0 Number of Personal Cards Within - 0 Page # 2 Confederate W. L. Watters Private, Co. "B", 55th Regiment Georgia Infantry * Appears on a Pay Roll of the organization named above, showing payment of bounty, for Not Stated, 186?. Roll Dated - June 13, 1862 Volunteered: When - May 5, 1862 Where - Carrollton, GA By Whom - J. B. Martin Period - 3 Years Bounty Due - $50.00 Paid - $50.00 Recieved payment - W. L. Watters * This regiment subsequently became 56th Regiment Georgia Infantry. J. W. Bosswick, Copiest Page # 3 Confederate Wm. L. Watters 2nd Lieut. Co "H", 59th Reg. GA Inf. appears on a list of Confederate officers and soldiers exchanged at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, September 16, 1862. List Dated - Not Dated W. W. ?????, Copiest Military: "NARA" Enlisted Company "B", 56th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army at Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia. He died at Vicksburg, Mississippi 1863. Military: Jane H. Waters was listed on the "Georgia Salt List" for Carroll County, Georgia. The families of soldiers were supplied with a salt ration during the war. She was listed as being a widow of a deceased soldier. Military: "ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA 1861-1865"Abbreviation: GARosterCPublished by Longino & Porter on 1955-58 W L Watters Claimed Residence in Carroll County Enlist Date Enlist Place Enlist Rank Enlist Age 05 May 1862 Priv Served Georgia Enlisted B Co. 56th Inf Reg. GA died at Vicksburg, MS (Died in 1863) Census: 1850 COWETA COUNTY, GEORGIA - 19th District - Taken August 14, 1850 - Census Taker : B. H. Mitchell - Page # 305 - Household # 309 William L. Waters, Male, 15, Born in Georgia, In household of Joseph Leslie Joseph Leslie, Male, 44, Farmer, $1400, SC Mary R., Female, SC Issabella J., Female, 17, SC Charlotte, Female, 15, SC John J., Male, 15, SC Mary E., Female, 10, SC Susan, Female, 8, GA William L. Waters, Male, 15, GA (Given the dates and birthplaces of the Leslie children, Joseph Leslie came to Georgia between 1840 and 1842.) Census: Research Note: The 1840 census for Coweta has this: 1840 COWETA COUNTY, GEORGIA - District 2 - Page # 348 Joseph Lessley 1 Male under 5 1 Male 15/20 1 Male 30/40 - Joseph Leslie 1 Female under 5 2 Females 5/10 1 Female 30/40 Using these census records, John J. Leslie is the Male under age 5. This means that William L. Waters was not living in the household of Joseph Leslie in 1840. It also supports my contention that William L. Waters was the son of James Waters, Jr. and that he was living with his father in Carroll County in 1840. The Leslie family might well have migrated to Georgia around or at the same time James Waters, Jr. migrated. Census: 1860 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA - Tricum Post Office - District # 11 - Enumerated July 27, 1860 - Page # 473 - Household # 34 William L. Waters, Male, 25, Farmer, $200 Real Estate, $250 Personal Property, SC Jane H., Female, 24, Keeping House, $200, SC John R., Male, 4, GA Sarah E., Female, 2, GA Census: Research Note: The year 1860 finds William L. and Jane in the Tricum District of Carroll County. This was a fairly short distance for the family to move, although in this era it was likely a major undertaking. One noticeable difference is this census states that William L. Waters was born in the state of South Carolina and not the state of Georgia. If this is so, it leads to an even greater chance that he was related to the others with the Waters surname found in 1850 Coweta County. William L. had Real Estate in the value of $200 and Personal Property valued at $250. This was a fair amount of money for a poor farmer to have. I need to check for a deed, since it is likely he owned land with Real Estate listed on the census. Another stone yet to turn���.another question to find the answer to. Their first child, John Robert Waters was born September 24, 1855. He was born in Cedartown, Coweta County. Next came a daughter, Sarah E. (Sally) Waters. She was born April 1858, also in Coweta County. Using the birth dates and places of these two children, William L. and Jane did not move to Carroll County until after April 1858 and before the census was taken in 1860. At the time of the 1860 census, living next door to William L. and Jane was Elisha Yeager and Hester Ann Johnson Yeager. This is one of the same families that had a Waters (Mariah - born about 1831 in South Carolina) living with them in 1850 Coweta County. Another clue to William L. Waters� parents? (William Dorris, who married the widow Jane H. Moore Waters in 1888, lived in Household # 39) William Doris, Male, 26, Farmer, SC, $400, $150 Elizaann, Female, 35, SC Georgia C., Female, 7, GA Census: Research Note: Joseph Leslie, with whom William L. Waters lived in 1850, remained in Coweta County for the 1860 census. The 1860 census has the following: P. O. Newnan - Enumerated July 8, 1860 - Page 86 - HH# 682 Joseph Leslie, 53, $2000, $7637, Farmer, SC Mary B., 53, SC Mary E., 20, GA Susan A., 18, GA Next Household Elizabeth Leslie, 73, $100, SC Mary B., 71, 100, SC Isabella, 60, 100, SC Census: 1870 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA - Page # 215 - Enumerated July 25, 1870 - Household # 1178 - Carrollton Post Office Jane H. Waters, Female, Widow, 33, Keeping House, SC John R., Male, 14, Works Farm, GA Sarah, Female, 12, At Home, GA Margaret, Female, 9, GA Census: Research Note: In this census, Jane is a widow, William L. having died in Vicksburg, MS during the Civil War. Living only three households away were Elisha and Hester Ann Johnson Yeager. But living between Jane and the Yeager family are Henry Allen Yeager and wife Susan E. Moore Yeager. She was Jane's sister. Here is a tie to the Yeager family that has been suspected from first finding a Waters in his household in 1850. But it still leaves unexplained why she was there long before the Moore family came into the equasion. Census: Research Note: William Dorris, who Jane H. Moore Waters later married, is living on Page # 208 with his 1st wife Eliza and child, Mary. Also in the household is his Mother, Lucinda Dorris, age 60, born SC. Census: 1870 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA Agricultural Census - Page # 69 - Line # 16 - Enumerated June 30, 1870 - Post Office: Carrollton Jane H. Waters 16 Improved acred 24 Wood Land Acres $200 Value of property 1 Horse 1 Milch Cow 4 Other Cattle $35 Value of Livestock 45 Acres Indian Corn Lived beside John Pentecost and a few houses away from Elisha Yeager Census: 1880 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA CENSUS - Lowell District - 1165th Militia District - Enumerated June 18, 1880 - Supervisor's District # 4 - Enumerator's District # 30 - Page # 34 - Household # 317 Jane, Female, 45, Widowed, SC , SC, SC Liza (Margaret), Female, 19, At Home, GA, SC, GA (Wiley J. Cash, father-in-law of John Robert Waters, lived in Household # 327) Census: 1900 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA - 714th District - Enumerated June 1st 1900 - SD# 4 = ED# 6 = Sheet # 20A - Household# 378 Jane H. Dorris, Female, Sister, 74, May 1836, Widowed, GA, GA, GA Living in household of her sister and brother-in-law James L. Fielder, Male, 47, May 1855, Married 27 Years, GA, GA, GA, Farmer, 224 Acres Carrie, Female, 51, Mar 1844, 2 of 2 Children living, GA, GA Sarah (?), Female (Listed as son), 11, 1881, GA James R., Male, 6, Feb 1884, GA Census: Research Note: Jane H. Moore Waters Dorris is living in Carroll County with her sister Carrie Moore Fielding. Her second husband, William Dorris had died in 1897. Before the 1900 census was taken June 1900, Sarah E. Waters had married and moved to Cleburne County, Alabama. Eliza M. Waters had married and moved to Cobb County, Georgia. John Robert Waters had moved his family from Carroll County to Lawrence County, Alabama. Why did John Robert leave his aged Mother and move to Alabama? William Jackson Waters remained in Carroll County until after the 1900 census was taken. Why was she not living with him? Where was Jane buried when she died? William Dorris was buried in the Dorris Cemetery and the Fieldings in Beulah Church Cemetery, neither of which shows a marker for Jane. DEATH: William L. Waters died in the Battle of Vicksburg during the Civil War, according to the few military papers located for him. The official dates for Siege of Vicksburg were May 19 - July 4, 1863. So it can be assumed that William L. Waters was living as of May 19, 1863 and died sometime either before July 4, 1863 or shortly thereafter. MARRIAGE: William L. Waters married Jane H. Moore on December 13, 1854. Their ages at the time of marriage were 19 and 18 respectively. She was born about 1836 in South Carolina. Jane H. Moore was the daughter of Robert Moore and Sarah (maiden name unknown) Moore. The Moore family were originally said to be from Newberry District in South Carolina. Robert and Sarah Moore were living in the same district as William L. Waters in 1850. They had moved from Carroll County at some point between 1840 and 1850. Living near the Moore family were at least 2 other Leslie families. It is unknown at this time the relationship between these Leslie families and the one William J. Was living with at the time of the census. MARRIAGE: "GEORGIA MARRIAGES to 1851 to 1900", Ancestry.com, August 28, 2001 WILLIAM L. WATERS JANE H. MOORE 13 Dec 1854 Coweta GA MARRIAGE: "MARRIAGE LICENSE"; Coweta County Probate Office; Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia STATE OF GEORGIACOWETA COUNTY You are hereby authorized and permitted to join, in the Honorable State of Matrimony, William L. Waters and Miss Jane H. Moore, according to the Rites of your Church, provided there be no lawful cause to obstruct the same, according to the Constitution and Laws of this State, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient License. Given under my hand and Seal this Twelveth day of December 1854. Signature: B. M. Mitchell, Ordinary To any Minister of the Gospel, Judge of the Interior Court, or Justice of the Peace, to Celebrate, I hereby Certify that William L. Waters and Jane H. Moore were joined in together in the Holy Bands of Matrimony, on the Thirtenth day of December, 1854, by me. Signature: Rev. J. L. McDaniel BIRTH: William L. WATERS was born about 1835 in Georgia or South Carolina. He is first found in the household of Joseph Leslie, a farmer from South Carolina. He was, at the age of 15, most probably a hired hand and living in Coweta County, Georgia. Although there were several others living in this county with the Waters surname, connecting him to any of the others has been extremely difficult. Due to the fact that in 1840 census records contained only ages and not the names of children, it is almost impossible to document with certainty who his parents were. None of the Waters living there were of an age to have been his parents, although one can assume that some of them might well have been his siblings. This possible connection needs more research to be definite about the possibilities before stating as a fact. BURIAL: William L. Waters died at Vicksburg, Mississippi. His place of burial is not and likely never will be, known. Whether he died from illness or wounds is not stated in his Military Record. Hundreds of soldiers are buried in the Confederate Graveyard at Vicksburg National Park, many in unmarked graves. If he died in the Confederate Hospital, records state he is likely buried there. There is no tombstone that bears his name. If he died in battle, most soldiers were buried in unmarked or mass graves, usually near where they fell. Vicksburg National Park originated as a memorial to the thousands of soldiers who fought and died for their beliefs, both Union and Confederate.
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