Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Waters, Henry ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com March 25, 2006, 5:50 pm Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900 Henry Waters To write of the life of Henry Waters is, necessarily, to write history, for he is descended from those who made history in Grundy county and elsewhere and has had much to do with the making of the history of Mazon township during the last third of a century. Henry Waters, one of the most respected citizens and substantial farmers of Mazon township, Grundy county, Illinois, was born on his father’s farm in Mazon township, April 13, 1849, a son of William and Betheusia (Booth) Waters. He gained a common-school education and by hard work and study prepared himself for the career of a farmer. December 28, 1868, at Morris, Illinois, he married Terressa H. Booth, born in Bazetta township, Trumbull county, Ohio, November 19, 1839, a daughter of Moses and Myra (Hubble) Booth. Moses Booth was born in Connecticut, was educated in the public schools and became a farmer. When a young man he settled in Trumbull county, where he met and won for his wife Miss Myra Hubble, who had come to that county from New Haven, Connecticut. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Booth settled in Trumbull county, Ohio, on a farm of eighty acres of land cleared from the woods, and he became one of the pioneer farmers of that county. They were both members of the Presbyterian church. Their children were George W., and Emma, who became the wife of Robert Briscoe. Mr. Booth died and Mrs. Booth married for her second husband Elson Reed, to whom she bore no children. Mrs. Reed came to Illinois when well advanced in years and died in Braceville, Grundy county, at the home of her son, George W. Mr. Booth was a widower when he met Miss Hubble, and by his previous marriage, to a Miss Judson, had children named Truman, Samuel, Moses, Laura, Eliza, and another daughter who married a Mr. Long. The lady who became Mrs. Henry Waters came to Illinois when she was fourteen years of age with a relative, Mrs. Catherine Trumbo, and lived two years in LaSalle county, near Ottawa. She then returned to Ohio, but came again to Illinois with the same relative four years later and located at Morris, where she met and married Mr. Waters. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Waters settled on a part of the old Waters homestead, which is included in the farm of one hundred and twenty acres on which they now live. To Mr. and Mrs. Waters children named as follows have been born, in the order here indicated: Emma M., born January 24, 1871; Ida Allie, born October 18, 1876; Alta May, born November 16, 1878, died September 7, 1880; and Rosa Mabel, born April 5, 1881; Emma was married September 12, 1888, to Clayton H. Nichols, a farmer of Mount Auburn, Iowa; they have five children—Ira M., Clarence H., Frank, Albert and Elsie; Ida Allie was married October 21, 1896, to Ray Woods, a farmer of Good Farm township, Grundy county, and they have one child, named Vietta Pearl. Mrs. Waters is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a consistent example of Christian character. In politics Mr. Waters is a stanch Republican. He is a public-spirited citizen, alive to every question affecting the general welfare, and is a friend of education who has proved his devotion by twenty-five years’ service as a member of the school board. His daughter, Emma, received a good education and was for a time a school-teacher. Ida Allie attended high school at Morris and taught school in Mazon township five years. Rosa Mabel is attending the Gardner high school and is fitting herself to teach. The entire family is one of the most respected in Mazon township. Mr. Waters is well known for his integrity, his industry and his friendly and helpful disposition. He is an entirely self-made man, having accumulated his property by his own unaided exertions. He descends from the pioneer stock of Grundy county, his father having been one of the first settlers, and is, in the best sense, a representative of the class which has given to Illinois her best and most useful citizens. Additional Comments: Source: Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p509-511 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/waters652nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb