Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Waters, S. F. 1833 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  S. F. WATERS, farmer, P. O. Heathville, was born October 18, 1833, in
Salisbury, Conn.; he is a son of William Waters, born 1796, in England; he was a
soldier in the British service under Wellington, fighting against Napoleon I,
and participating in the battle of Waterloo; he was afterward transferred with
the army to Canada, and liking this country he settled in Massachusetts, where
he was married to Asenath Slater, born 1803 in Massachusetts, of Scotch descent,
and the mother of nine children. S. F. Waters was educated in Salisbury, Conn.,
where he also learned the shoe-maker trade, which he followed in Ohio, where he
was joined in matrimony, March 9, 1857, to Miss Laura Chariher, of German
descent, born 1837 in Ohio; she died 1862, in Palestine, Ill., to which place
Mr. Waters had moved in 1861. He enlisted August 12, 1862, in the Ninety-eighth
Illinois Volunteers, Company D, which formed a part of the famous Wilders
Lightning Brigade; with it he participated in many thrilling scenes and famous
battles; he was wounded at Mission Ridge, and raised from private to First
Lieutenant. After the war, he followed his trade in Palestine, where he was
married again, September 25, 1866, to Mary Jane Bartmess, born January 10, 1845,
 in this county, where her parents, Peter and Sarah (Langton) Bartmess, were old
settlers. She is the mother of three children now living—Lucy, born March 13,
1869; Grace, born July 5, 1870, and Mary, born December 2, 1878. Mr. Waters has
filled township and school offices; he has a splendid farm of 120 acres, which
he keeps in a high state of cultivation, and on which he built one of the finest
farm residences in the county; he and his family are honored and respected by
all with whom they come in contact.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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