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Marriage: Children:
  1. Doris Elminah Waters: Birth: 6 Sep 1925 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 30 Dec 2015 in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama

  2. Spencer Arlton Waters: Birth: 20 Feb 1927 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 1 Apr 1999 in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama

  3. Abron Wayne Waters: Birth: 18 Sep 1928 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 11 Apr 2005 in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama

  4. Jackson (Jack) Jeremiah, Sr. Waters: Birth: 28 Mar 1930 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 13 Dec 2013 in Snead, Cullman County Alabama

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  6. Naomi Waters: Birth: 20 Jul 1933 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 25 Jul 1933 in Lawrence County, Alabama

  7. Willard Irwin Waters: Birth: 15 Jun 1934 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 7 Dec 2012 in Trinity, Lawrence County, Alabama

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  9. Shelton Oneal Waters: Birth: 26 Aug 1938 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 27 Aug 2018 in Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama

  10. Wanda Lee Waters: Birth: 9 Aug 1940 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 18 Jun 2018 in Trinity, Lawrence County, Alabama

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  13. Henry Waters: Birth: 5 May 1946 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Death: 5 May 1946 in Lawrence County, Alabama


Notes
a. Note:   BURIAL: Obituary-MOULTON ADVERTISER- February 5, 1987, page A-3 Funeral service for Elzie Elmina Waters, 79, Trinity, was Tuesday, Feburary 3, 1987, at 2 p. m. at Elliott Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Dwight Nesmith officiated with burial in Moulton Memory Gardens, Elliott Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Waters died Sunday, February 1, 1987, at Lawrence County Hospital. Survivors include eight sons, Spencer Waters and Wayne Waters, both of Moulton; Jackson Waters and Paul Waters, both of Decatur; Willard Waters, Birmingham;Verbon Waters, O'Neal Waters, and Larry Dwight Waters, all of Trinity; three daughters, Doris Compton, Mt. Hoe; Faynell Darnell and Wanda Lee Hill, both of Trinity; 43 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren. Grandsons were pallbearers and honorary pallbearers. Mrs. Waters was the widow of the late Grady Waters and a member of Conway Church.
  Census: 1920 Lawrence County, Alabama Census- Morris Chapel Precinct-Moulton New Decatur Road- household # 94- Absalom J. Shelton, 43, Elizabeth, 41, Eslie, 17, Alberta, 15, Elzie, 12, Phillip, 10, Polk, 6
  Memories: Of all the people who mingled thru my life, I think Grandmother was the most positive influence. She had a heart large enough for all her children and grandchildren, with room to still include strays of every sort. She was always content with her life and thankful for the gifts God had given her. Since I began this family history, I am realizing how hard it was to make a living and raise a family in the times they did. I cannot imagine having 13 children, much less doing the work involved with raising them. Hauling water from a pool to wash clothes on a rub-board, cooking enough to feed a tribe three meals a day, milking, churnning, sewing, canning, and just day to day survival, all before electricity and telephones. And she never drove a car or got her license. My memories of my Grandmommy are full of laughter and giggling. I remember going to the old homeplace when I was small. She was a little round woman, with long hair almost to her waist when I was young. Every day she would brush and plait it and roll it into a large ball pinned to the back of her head. The yard was full of the flowers that she loved so much. I guess Grandmommy had the proverbial green thumb. I remember her pulling wildflowers by the root on the mountains and keeping them alive and thriving after she brought them home. Any Grandchild who stayed overnight bathed in a # 10 washtub on the back porch with water hand-drawn from a well. After they moved to the new house, it was a new playground for us. There were the playhouses we built out of scavenged boards and rocks. We swept the ground clean under the trees behind the house and divided them into rooms. The log chain hanging from the tree by the pasture gate flew us a million or more miles. Strolling through the woods to the old cemetery that was in the woods and reading all the tombstones. We always decorated the little dogwood tree Granddaddy planted in an old tractor tire with salvage from the trash pile. Twine became the rope for the tree and tin can lids and pot pie tins became balls and ornaments that glittered in the sunshine. Grandmommy never fussed about the mess we made in her yard. We could get as dirty as we wanted. Looking back, I guess she cleaned up the messes we made because they always disappeared as if by magic. She could make fun out of nothing, it seemed. I remember her churning butter and trying to eat it on toasted bread without it dripping all over you. She dipped her bisquit in her coffee at breakfast and made her tea so strong, dark brown and unsweetened. Grandmommy always dipped snuff, that brown powdery stuff that flew everywhere if you blew on it. Her spit-can was always next to her, along with her snuff, usually with a wad of gum stuck on top of it. We kept a couple of bricks in the front yard where we busted hickory nuts and ate them as fast as we shelled them. Grandmommy loved us. We could tell. Always. She loved Granddaddy with a devotion that was amazing. Elzie Shelton Waters was a brave and caring lady, who put her family first, and had a heart as big as the sky. To this day, I can still hear her laughter.


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