Bio of WALTERS, George (b.1840), Wright Co., MN
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264            HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

	George Walters, a veteran of the Civil war, and early settler of 
French Lake township, was born in Kent, England, in 1840, son of Mathew 
Walters, who brought his family to America about 1846 and settled on a 
small farm near Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of fifteen, George Walters 
started out for himself. The outbreak of the Civil war found him still 
in Ohio. He enlisted September 5, 1861, in Battery B., First Ohio Light 
Artillery, under Captain W. E. Stannard and Colonel James Barrett. The 
regiment was assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps. Among the battles in 
which Mr. Walters participated may be mentioned: 

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Wild Cat Mountain, Ky.; Mills Springs, Ky.; Perryville, Ky.; Laverque, 
Tenn.; Stone River, Tenn.; Chickamauga, Tenn.; Lookout Mountain and 
Missionary Ridge. He was discharged January 3, 1864, reenlisted January 
4, 1864, and received his final discharge July 22, 1865. After the war 
he returned home, and then spent a year as a fur trapper near Manistee, 
Mich. From there he came to Minneapolis. It was in 1867 that he came to 
the northern part of French Lake township and purchased forty acres of 
land. He farmed there about seven years, then he moved to Corinna 
township, bought forty acres and there farmed about twenty years. 
Then he came to Annandale, where he has since lived. Mr. Walters is a 
member of Buzzell Post, No. 24, G.A.R., at Annandale. Mr. Walters was 
married in January, 1871, to Julia Whitlock, daughter of Ervin and 
Mary (Abney) Whitlock, who were married April 30, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. 
Walters have had seven children: Lottie, now Mrs. J. F. Gorman, of 
Maple Lake; James, of Annandale; Nettie, wife of Tad Heaton, of 
Annandale; Blanche, wife of Hugo Ernest, of Paynesville; Gertrude, 
wife of R. S. Webber, of Paynesville; and two that died in infancy. 
Mrs. Walters is a member of the Advent Church. Ervin Whitlock, the 
early settler, came to Minnesota in 1866. He was a veteran of the Civil 
war, having served as fifer in Company I, 84th Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry. He is now living at Annandale, at the advanced age of 94 years.