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Note: 1850 Fulton Co., Ill. Census, Town of Farmers, taken 18 Dec 1850, p 76 : Daniel Walters - age 22 - Farmer - RE Value $400 - b. Ill. - Dwelling #97 - Family #111 Sarah " - age 25 - b. Va. James Brand - age 15 - Farmer - b. Va. Jane Brand - age 63 - b. Va. Jane Brand is probably Sarah's mother. James Brand is probably Sarah's brother. ____________________ 1860 Fulton Co., Ill. Census, Farmers Twp., P. O. Bernadotte, taken 20 July 1860, p 239-240 [Ancestry.com Image #239-240]: Daniel Walters - age 32 - Farmer - RE Value $3000? - Pers. Estate Value $300 - b. Ill. - Dwelling #1754 - Family #1700 Sarah H. " - age 30 - b. Va. Charles R. " - age 9 - b. Ill. Jane A. " - age 7 - b. Ill. Elisabeth E. " - age 5 - b. Ill. James E. " - age 3 - b. Ill. Mary C. Walters - age 5/12 - b. Ill. Joseph M. LJugaw? - age 28 - Teacher C__ School - Pers. Estate Value $ 1000 - b. Md. ______________________ 1860 Fulton Co., Ill. Census, Farmers Twp., P. O. Bernadotte, taken 20 July 1860, p 239 [Ancestry.com Image #239]: Mary Carrison - age 50 - b. England - Dwelling #1751 - Family #1697 Hannah " - age 26 - b. England William " - age 24 - Coal Miner - b. England Elisabeth " - age 21 - b. England Could this be the Mary Carrison or the mother of the Mary Carrison that Daniel Walters married secondly? __________________________________________________________________ History of Fulton County, Illinois, Peoria, Chas. C. Chapman & Co., 1879, p 674: Farmers Township Daniel Walters; P. O., Ipava; sec. 36. William Walters in 1822 loaded his wife and two children into a keel-boat in Alabama, and made his way to Illinois by way of the rivers, and landed in Sangamon Co., where he remained one year, and then removed to Fulton Co. We frequently speak of old settlers being well known in the early history of this county, but Mr. W. was known nearly all over the State, and none knew him but to love him. When he first landed in Ill. he had one bed (straw), a rifle, and 25 cents in money. The first horse he owned he mauled rails to pay for, and this pony was killed by over-riding by a negro who took it without the knowledge of Mr. Walters. Before his death his property was valued at $10,000. He was born in May, 1788, in Jefferson Co., Tenn.; was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving under Gen. Jackson; and consequently was a pensioner up to his death, which occurred Sept. 16, 1877. He also fought in the Black Hawk war. Our subject, Daniel Walters, was born in Bernadotte tp., Oct. 14, 1827, and except 4 years has always reside in Fulton county. He has ridden over the prairies when there was not a spear of grass amiss. The first school he attended was when he was 13 years old, in a round-log house, fully described elsewhere in this volume. He father had ten children, our subject being the 6th. He was married, April 5, 1850, to Sarah H. Dobbins, by whom he had 9 children. Mrs. Walters died March 17, 1874. Mr. Walters married, March 12, 1876, Mary A. Carrison, a sister of Robert Carrison of this tp. As before stated, he is the father of 9 children, 2 boys and 7 girls, viz: Charles R., Jane A., Ellen E., James E., M. Cornelia, Louise H., Laura V. Sarah E. and M. Ida. _______________________ 1880 Fulton Co., Ill. Census, Farmers Twp., ED #41, taken 12 June 1880, p 17 [Ancestry.com, Farmers Twp., ED #41, Image #17]: Walters, Daniel - age 52 - Farming - b. Ill. - F born Tenn. - M born Tenn. - Dwelling #178 - Family #178 " , Mary A. - age 44 - Wife - Keeping house - b. Eng. - M born Eng. - F born Eng. " , Louisa H. - age 17 - daughter - At home - b. Ill. - F born Ill. - M born Va. " , Laura V. - age 15 - daughter - At home - b. Ill. - F born Ill. - M born Va. " , Emily - age 13 - daughter - At home - b. Ill. - F born Ill. - M born Va. " , Ida - age 11 - daughter - At school - b. Ill. - F born Ill. - M born Va. _________________________________________ Table Grove, Fulton Co., Illinois newspaper, 1912: Oldest Citizen Born in County Daniel Walters, Table Grove, Has That Distinction; Is Eighty-Five. EARLY PLAYMATES WERE INDIAN BOYS Never Saw White Child, Outside of Parents' Family, Until He Was Six Years Old. Daniel Walters of Table Grove is Fulton county's oldest citizen of native birth. He was born in Bernadotte township, five miles west of Lewistown, October 14, 1827. That is 85 years and five months ago. All this time he has resided in the county. He has known it from its infancy, as well as from his infancy. For Fulton county, organized in 1823, five years after Illinois became a state, is only four years older than this venerable patriarch. His was the third birth in the county, in a white family, so far as there is any record. The first white child born here was Lucinda, daughter of Ossian M. Ross. The second was Major Abner Barnes. Neither of these survives. Tennessee Parentage The parents of Daniel Walters were William and Elizabeth (Royer) Walters, who were natives of Jefferson county, in the eastern part of Tennessee. William Walters was a soldier in the War of 1812, under General Andrew Jackson. Twenty years later he served in the Black Hawk War. In or about 1820 the family came to Illinois, locating in Sangamon county. The father, having traded a pony for a quarter section of land in Fulton county, came to Lewistown by river and by Indian trail, and Ossian M. Ross helped him find his purchase. It was a fairly good quarter, five miles distant from the little cluster of log cabins that was Lewistown in those days. A creek cut it in two parts of nearly equal size. There was some good bottom land, easily cleared, and some fine and heavy timber. here the pioneer built his cabin. Here he brought his family, in 1823. And here, on the date previously noted--October 14, 1827-- was born a son, to whom the parents gave the name of Daniel. Indian Playmates A Potawantomi village of 30 or 40 teepees was within a half-mile of the Walters home, nearer to the river. The little Indians were the playmates of the settler's children. Daniel Walters, until six years old, had never seen a white child other than his brothers and sisters. He remembers vividly the games played with the Indian boys, and how he sat with them about the meat that they ate with fingers--there were no forks in that old Indian village. The Indians trapped and hunted and sold furs to the Phelpses at Lewistown--which Daniel Walters can remember in the early 30's as a place of hardly more than half a dozen log houses. Early Neighbors In 1827, about four years after William Walters settled in Bernadotte township, John Harris became a neighbor. He settled a few miles up the rive, in what now is Harris township. Of his family was a son, John Harris, born before the parents came to Illinois, and 11 years the senior of Daniel Walters. he is yet living, and resides in Bushnell. He is the father of J. E. Harris of that city. Trouble With Indians As white settlers grew more numerous, and game and fur less plentiful, trouble with the Indians ensued. The stole and ate the settlers pigs. The milked the settlers' cows. Finally the Indian neighbors were told that they must leave, and make their home on land reserved for them in Iowa. The Indians of the village lingered till the situation became tense, and Mr. Walters remembers a fight, in the vicinity of Duncan Mills, between a number of Indians and a party of settlers including his father and his father's brother, Thomas. There was much shooting from behind trees along the trail on which the boy had ridden with his father. He was left to hold his father's horse, back of the firing line. He heard his uncle warned to look out--that an Indian was near him and about to shoot. He saw his uncle, though the Indian's bullet struck him in the thigh, club his gun and strike his enemy before the redskin could reload. The Indian rolled into the creek. After this skirmish the Indians, who already had been given notice to depart within three days, quickly left the country, under their old chief, Raccoon. His First School. At 13 years of age, Daniel Walters saw, for the first time, a school. It was on section 16 Farmers township, where the Walters family had removed after the Bernadotte township farm had been sold to Warren Harris, brother of John Harris, for $400 and a horse. Here came James Miner, a Hoosier schoolmaster, and the settlers built a school house of clay-plastered logs, with an oiled-paper window, and benches and desks made of logs split in half, and made smooth with the broadax. There were 30 pupils, some grown men and women and some children. The school term was three months. The tuition cost was $3 a pupil for the term. Nine Children, All Living. Daniel Walters was married April 5, 1850, to Sarah H. Brand, who died March 19, 1875. Of their nine children, all are living. Their names and places of residence are as follows: Charles R. Walters, Oswego, Kan.; Mrs. Jane A. Rinehart, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Ellen E. Pierce, Macomb; James E. Walters, Monmouth; Mrs. Cornelia Mayo, near Cuba; Mrs. Louisa Killion, Table Grove; Mrs. Laura Walters, Smithfield; Mrs. Emma Smith, LaHarpe; Mrs. Ida Brown, Ottowa, Kan. All these sons and daughters gathered at the home of Mr. Walters to celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday anniversary last fall. There is planned a similar reunion of this remarkable family on the eighty-sixth anniversary. There are 26 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. The present Mrs. Walters was Mrs. Mary A. Carrison. The marriage was March 1, 1876. In 1894, Mr. Walters retired from the farm and bought the property which he now occupies, in Table Grove. Former County Official Although this fact was not mentioned to the Ledger representative who called upon him recently, Daniel Walters is a former county official--his party, the Democratic, having elected him to the office of coroner in 1870. In his eighty-sixth year, "Uncle Dan" is active, strong of voice and clear of mind. His tall, broad-shouldered figure is familiar on the streets of Table Grove. His sight and hearing are good. He seems likely indeed to reach, or possibly surpass, his father's age. And William Walters lived to be 99. _______________________________________________________ The following was taken from the death record from the newspaper: Daniel Walters, son of William and Elizabeth Walters, was born October 14th, 1827, died Nov. 16, 1919; aged 92 years, 1 month and 2 days. Was born in Bernadotte township, Fulton County, was united in marriage to Sarah Brand Dobbins, April 30th, 1850, who died March 18, 1875. To this union was born nine children, Charles R. Walters, Oswego, Kan., Jane A. Rinehart, Kansas City; Ellen E. Pierce, Macomb, Ill.; James E., Monmouth, Ill. Cornelia Mays, Canton, Ill.; Louise Killian, Table Grove; Emma Smith, La Harpe;Ida Brown, Ottawa, Kan.; who with one brother John Walters, survive him. There are twenty grand children, Thirty great grand children and two great, great grandchildren. He was united in marriage to Mary Carrison, March 12, 1876, united with the Methodist Church in 1876 and had lived a devoted christian life; was a kind and loving father and husband, and will be certainly missed in our home, but God knows best, He said he was going home a short time before going to sleep. Bright angels, then from glory came, was round his bed and in his room they wafted his spirit home; all is well. Six daughters were pallbearers. A grandson preached the funeral sermon.
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