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The Descendants of William & Celia Walters 1794—2008

1794----2008
Barnesville, NC



From one family, William and Celia Walters and their seven sons and four daughters, settled in Robeson County near Princess Ann in 1794, their descendants have spread all across the United States.

In looking up the family tree, I have found that in a lot of cases all some people leave in this world are an obituary and a tombstone. Sometimes all we have to go on is that little piece of information that we have to search and find that was only printed once, and we search and resurrect that person’s life again. Like in the case of Haynes Johnson, I was sent his picture of him by a relative; he was born in Robeson County in 1860 and died in Robeson County in 1934. In searching for the obituary I found that over 1000 people attended his funeral at Barnesville Baptist Church. He was an outstanding and well known citizen to the Barnesville community.
Without finding that obit this info would have been forgotten forever.

Then there was David Israel who was born in 1843 and died in 1907, before death certificates were kept by each county. His obituary said that he awoke around midnight the night he died and ask his wife for some water, upon returning with the water, she said he was unconscious and he died early the next morning. This was in his obit in the newspaper in 1907 to be forgotten until this year when I went searching for it.

. One good example is Moses Warwick, this is one of the earliest families in Robeson County coming here before 1790 and settling in Orrum. All that is left is the cemetery in the field, a few grave stones and as you can see by clicking on the link below, it is all grown up. Usually the family cemetery was in view of looking from the home, out a window or a door. So as I visited this cemetery I tried to image where the home may have stood in relation to the cemetery.

Moses Warwick Cemetery in Orrum




Updates:

Family Reunions & Annoucements

If you would like your upcoming Reunion Posted here for Southern Robeson County, NC please email me at MeWalt7@aol.com




"The Coming Home Reunion"
"The Descendants of William & Celia Walters
1794--2008"

Please click Directions below for more info on the Reunion.

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New Items:

I found a list of surviving Confederate Veterans in the Newspaper for May 1919
Click here for Surviving Confederate Veterans May 1919



While looking for obituarys I found this Honor Roll for Barnesville School 1933
Click here for Barnesville School Honor Roll 1933


For those that have helped to support this web site financially, I want to say thank you, with your help this site will stay up for all to enyoy and learn about their family.

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If you would like to make a donation to help in the research and keep this site up.
Please send send a check or money order by postal mail, please mail to

Michael Walters
PO Box 517,
Shannon, NC 28386


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I have also created a message group, that if you join you will be able to send one message and it will go out to over 200 descendants of William and Celia Walters who have also joined the group. It is for the descendants of William and Celia Walters. It will be a way to keep all the family members informed about the coming events and any items of interest about the descendants. If you have a question about the family ask the group, If you have an old family photo you would like to send to the group or you took pictures at any of the reunions please send to the group.
Family names consist of Walters, Lewis, Grimsley, Sealey, Purvis, Hardin, Loe, Rhodes, Leggett, Floyd, Lowe, Jenkins, (this is by no means all the family names) any name that my be connected to the family.

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You have reached the Descendants of William & Celia Walters Website, either by accident or search engine or by referral from some one. What ever the case may be We welcome you here. Heres is a little History about our family:


Our Family Tree

William Walters Sr was born circa 1745 in Dobbs County, North Carolina married Celia Dawson from Wayne County, North Carolina. Celia was the daughter of Joseph Dawson and Elizabeth ?.
William Walters Sr died in Robeson County North Carolina in 1841, according to the 1840 census he was between the ages of 90-100.

William Walters Sr received a land grant from the state of North Carolina for 50 acres and moved to Robeson County NC in 1795.

1/12/1794: Land grant #196 was entered for William Walters for 50 acres west of Drowning Creek on both sides of Inman's Pocoson Branch. Recorded in Book 93, page 088.

11/7/1812: William Walters Sr. deeded to William Walters Jr. 267 acres on both sides of Indian Branch, adjoining Dawson Walters land on south side of Inman's Branch, adjoining James Lewis. Recorded in Robeson Co, NC Deed Book Q, page 233.
Indian Swamp flows northeast to southwest about 3/4 of a mile west of Barnesville. Inman Branch flows into Indian Swamp..

In 1795, William Walters, Sr and his wife Celia Dawson moved from Dobbs County, North Carolina to Robeson County North Carolina. They settled in the southeastern section near the Lumber River near Present Day Barnesville, NC. William and Celia had fifteen children and eleven have been identified of these are four daughters and seven sons.

Children of William Walters Sr and Celia Dawson Walters

Thomas Walters Born circa 1775 married Nancy Grimsley.

Edith Walters born May 30 1780 and died April 5, 1848 she married James Lewis born Nov 26, 1772 and he died Jan 10, 1855

William Walters Jr Born June 7 1781 in Dobbs County, NC he died 1858 Robeson County NC married Absela Speir Pittman born Oct 11, 1791 and died of typhoid fever in 1870.

Joseph Walters Born cicra 1783

Esther Walters Born 1784 in Dobbs County, NC. She died post 1860 in Clarke County, Mississppi, she married Irvin Grimsley on Dec 28, 1799 in Robeson County, NC.

Dawson Walters Born circa 1786 in Dobbs Co, NC and died ?. He married Nancy Johnson in Robeson Co., NC.

James Walters Born circa 1788 in Dobbs Co., NC., died 1856 Pike County Alabama. He married Susaana in Robeson County.
This family moved from Robeson Co., NC to Montgomery Co., Alabama in 1832.

Fleetwood Walters Born 1797 married 1st Alice Britt & 2nd Anzie Britt

Celia Walters Born Circa 1799 married ? Purvis

Elema Walters Born Circa 1800 and died July 31,1847 in Alabama. She married Thomas Lowe on August 27, 1816 in Robeson Co., NC, this family moved from Robeson Co NC to Montgomery Co Ala in 1832.

Briant Walters Born April 17 1802 married Elizabeth ? from Robeson Co NC moved from Robeson Co NC to Montgomery Co Ala in 1832. Elizabeth died and he remarried in Alabama to Jennette ?.
Briant died in Alabama in 1884.
He was the youngest child of William and Celia Walters and the last to die.

James, Briant, and Elema Walters Loe sold there land in Robeson County, NC and left Robeson with their families and moved to Alabama in 1832.

THIS WEB SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM WALTERS SR AND CELIA DAWSON.

On this website, you will see and read things that have not been published in over 100 yrs, Pictures, Obits, Deeds, Cemeteries, Newspaper Articles. We are always searching for those hard to find items that would be of interest to all Walters Descendants.

Also If anyone has any old photos they would like for me to put on the website please email me the photo or mail to my home address listed below. The photo needs to be a Walters or Walters Descendant such as Grimsley, Lewis, Purvis, Lowe, Loe, Sealey, etc or something about the area they lived like Princess Anne. It also needs to be of someone born before 1900. If you have sent me pictures rest assured I will get them on as time and space allows

Please keep checking back as I will be adding more old photos.

Also there is a "Links Page" on the last page of this web site, if you have your own web site you can Link to us. Please email me with the Link.
Now Sit Back And Take A Trip Into The Past As You Learn More About Your Family.
 Below are three pictures of Princess Anne in Barnesville, everyone who I have talked to that grew up there have said that they went swimming or learned how to swim at Princess Anne. How wonderful that must have been to swim in that same spot that William Walters Sr and his kids may have learn to swim. I never got that opportunity because my family moved from that area and now it is a state park. If you have never been to Princess Anne, I would encourage you to go, what a beautiful place.


Princess Anne 2005
Where it all started back in 1795

Looking East from Princess Anne toward Fair Bluff

Looking West from Princess Anne toward Lumberton



We have come so far in the last 23 years, I can't believe it has been that long, we have learned so much about the family and there is so much more to learn, like who was the first Walters to come over by ship to America?




What it must have been like for William and Celia Walters to leave Dobbs County with their 9 children and travel by wagon
to Robeson County in 1795


William Walters was born circa 1750 in Dobbs County NC and died 1841 Robeson County NC. He moved from Dobbs County to Robeson County in 1795 and settled at what is present day Barnesville NC.

In the future we are going to do an update to "The Descendants of William Walters, Sr of Robeson County, North Carolina 1794-1994 genealogy by William Boyd Walters and Laura Cabanis Walters. This update will consist of corrections and new info that we have aquired since the first book was published in 1994.

Please if you have corrections to the first genealogy book or want to add your family to the updated book, please send to:

Michel Walters or Jim Warwick at the postal address's or email address's provided.

Home Address:
Michael E. Walters
PO Box 517
Shannon, NC 28386
tel: 910-843-9206

email:
 MeWalt7@aol.com
Mwalters23@nc.rr.com

Home Address:
James Warwick
288 Saint David Drive
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
tel: 856-234-5154

email:
 jiminnj@erols.com



For more information, please contact
Michael at Michael E. Walters Jim Warwick at Jim Warwick.

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ABOUT THE BOOK


"The Descendants of William Walters, Sr of Robeson County, North Carolina 1794-1994"

We want to thank William Boyd Walters and Jane Cabanis Walters for doing the research and having this book printed, it will be something to treasure and pass down in the family. We dont realize how much time and how tedious it was to do this great geneology book. Thank you Bill and Jane.

Their are very NO books left
All my records are now on the Robeson County Digital Library and the Columbus County Digital Library, please visit those sites to view the records for those counties, obits, wills ect.
The pages with pictures are still on my site, view the pages below to see them.

Robeson County Records

Columbus County Records



I have also made a page just for Links that I think Researchers might be interested in. Click below for this page.

Links Page

I have found that alot of families in southern Robeson County had transactions with each other but where no relation, I wanted to make a web page for the early families also. Be patient with me as I am still working the bugs out on it and some info I may have on both sites.

Early Southern Robeson Co Families



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