WATERS FAMILY

Jesse S. WATERS (John S on one census) was born either in Georgia or South Carolina. Replies on the census for him by him and by his children will vary between those two with an occasional "Illinois" thrown in for good measure. He was born ca 1838, Georgia or South Carolina.

On June 8, 1865 in Union Co., Il he will marry Amelia Ann Fisher. She was the daughter of Moses FISHER and Lucy Ann SHAVER FISHER.

The couple will remain in Illinois for a year or so and then move to Bollinger Co., Missouri.

On the 1870 census they will be found there with two daughters and a son:

Josephine WATERS, b.1867, probably in Union County, IL but possibly in Missouri. She will marry ca 1890 a Wm SNOWDEN ; she may have divorced him in another state about 1895 (possibly desertion charges).  She will die probably between the 1900 Census and the 1910. She will be found on the 1900, with her children, sans husband in her father's home in Mississippi Co., Missouri. Also there will be the son of her sister, Victoria Waters Hudson, a young Jesse HUDSON.

Victoria WATERS, b. ca 1870 (Aug 5, says her death certificate but since the census of 1870 was taken in August and she is listed as 3/12 and born "May" her birthdate was probably May 1870. An illustration of the errors that can crop up due to someone filling in the information for a death).  She married in 1889 in Pulaski County, Ill (next door to the Union Co. mentioned above and below) to Louis HUDSON. They had three children: Jesse HUDSON, Elizabeth Louise "Lizzie" HUDSON HILL, and Louis Eugene HUDSON.

About 1900 her marriage to Hudson collapsed (she is on the Cairo census at one address, Louis is somewhere else, her son Jesse is with her parents in Missouri, and the location of Lizzie and Louis Eugene is uncertain). In 1905 she marries Albert EASLEY in Clay Co., Arkansas, where her sister Martha is living with her family. Then Victoria and Albert move toward New Madrid, where her brother may have been living, and Easley relatives may have lived. Then, they migrate to Butler Co., Missouri. She will died there in the early 1930's.

 Alonzo "Lon" WATERS b1873, Illinois (probably Union Co.). Little else is known for certain. He may have been the Alonzo Waters listed as a boarder in New Madrid County, 1910. He may have worked on the railroad. He may be the man who left a will naming a wife Lilli in Illinois but nothing is certain without more information.

Marth Eudocia WATERS, born Dec 188o in Union Co., Ill and died in Butler Co., Missouri. She married Thomas J. HILL. One record has her listed as "Martha U" and this is no doubt the result of the census taker hearing the pronunciation of Eudocia (U-docia) and writing down the  "U." In 1910 her sister's children are with her indicating she may have died by then,

The 1880 census finds this family in Dongola, Union Co., Illinois and the 1900 finds them in Mississippi Co., MO with grandchildren. 

What happened to Jesse Waters and wife Amelia Fisher Waters after 1900 is unclear. They do not, to date, appear on any census records, grave lists, etc. It is probable they died between 1900 and 1910 in Mississippi Co., Mo.