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Note: Mrs. Crandall, I am a descendent of Luther and Mary Wells Waller. No one who has done
Waller family history has seemed to have any info on him, so I will briefly tell
you what I know about them. First, Mary J. was the dau. of David Wells and
Jane Dean. After Burton and Melcha died, I found Luther in the 1860 census living
with Westley Sheffield as a farm laborer I supposed. The next info I found was
that in 1862 he enlisted and served in the Civil War with his future father-in-law.
He was captured at Cumberland Gap in Tennessee and spent the rest of the war
in Camp Douglas in Illinois. Shortly after he returned home, he and Mary J.
apparently married as their first son, Burton Westley was born in December, 1866.
Dennis J. and Enoch were born later and were in the Hunt Co. Texas 1880 Census.
In Nov. 1880 my grandmother, Lutheria, was born near Wells, Tx. . Sons, Luther
and V (not V. or Vee) were born. In 1900 Census, both parents were deceased and
the children were living with either Burton or Dennis and their families. I do not
know where Luther S. died or where he was buried, but my Mother said that Mary
was buried in an unmarked grave near Timpson, Shelby Co. Tx. My mother, Annie,
was the fourth child of Lutheria Waller and William Wade Eaves. I was the second
child of Annie Eaves and Wyte Parrish. Most of the children lived in and around
Angelina, San Augustine and Shelby Co. in East Texas. They farmed or worked in
sawmills, I think. All are deceased as well as all of my Mother's family. Her
particular family moved extensively with the opening of new sawmills and settled
in Walker Co. Tx where I was born and raised.
Lou Ann Sandel
224 Pine Hill Drive
Conroe, Texas 77301
l2sandel@txucom.net
August 17, 2002
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