WATERS, Robert S. 1822 - 1908

JONES, LOWREY, WATERS

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Date: 2/12/2005 at 20:03:56

Fairfield Daily Journal
February 4, 1908
Page 3, Column 2

LIVED HERE 60 YEARS. ROBERT WATERS who died this morning aged 85, was a Jefferson County Pioneer…passed away this morning about 3:30 o’clock at his home on West Jefferson Street…

MR. WATERS came to this city when it was but a very small village and was instrumental in helping build up the town and the county. It has always been with great pride that MR. WATERS was able to tell of the earlier days of this city and of how the Indians used to camp around the little village, trading with the few white settlers and living fairly peaceable with them. There are yet but a very few of the pioneers living who can remember and relate to the younger generations any of the early history of this growing city. MR. WATERS was famous in his earlier days as a wolf hunter. Many of these animals have found death by shots from his gun and been brought to this city by him.

ROBERT S. WATERS was born in Brown County, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1822 and moved to this city April 1, 1848, and has been a continuous resident ever since. He was the last of his family….

MR. WATERS was married three times during his life, the last wife being MRS. ELIZABETH JONES who died about ten years ago…He has always lived an exemplary upright life.

He is survived by five children: JASPER M. of Dayton, Ohio; ROBERT and KENDALL of Chicago; T. S. of this city; MRS. JOSEPH LOWREY of Omaha, Nebr., and two stepchildren, MRS. M. H. JONES of Ringgold county and MISS ADA JONES who care for him as tenderly and faithfully during his last days as if he were her own father.

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Fairfield Ledger
Feb. 5, 1908
Page 6 col. 4

AN OLD RESIDENT GONE
Robert W. WATERS died at his home in this city Monday after a residence of sixty years in Jefferson county. He was born in Brown county, Ohio Sept. 14, 1822, grew to young manhood there, and at the age of 20 years was married, his young wife living only about a year, giving her life for a son, JOSEPH N. WATERS. Mr. WATERS was married to Miss Mary N. STOKELEY in Ohio, and the young couple came to Iowa. Six children were born to this union, four of whom survive the parents—Theodore S. of Fairfield, Kendall and Robert of Chicago, and Mrs. Josephine LOWERY of Omaha. The mother of these children departed this life about forty-two years ago, and Mr. WATERS was married eight years later to Mrs. Elizabeth JONES of this city, who died ten years ago. MISS Addie JONES, a daughter, has cared for the deceased during his later years, and for some weeks Mrs. M. H. EVANS, another daughter, of Ringgold county, had been with him.

Funeral services will be held at the home Thursday morning at 10:30, conducted by Rev. Pearse Pinch.

Mr. Waters had lived in Fairfield fifty-nine years, was well known and highly respected by many, was a man of highest integrity, loyal to his friends and neighbors, and there are many who will mourn his death and extend sympathy to the bereaved relatives.