Waters, Theodore Stokley 1844 - 1929

WATERS, NICHOLAS, LOWRY, ARNETT

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Date: 2/12/2005 at 20:09:03

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Thursday, November 14, 1929
Page 1, Column 4

T. S. WATERS PASSED AWAY
Would Have Been 85 Years Old Next Monday; Funeral Services Saturday

T.S. WATERS, commander of George Strong Post No. 19 G.A.R., and for 81 years a resident of Jefferson county passed away yesterday afternoon at 3:25 oclock at his home, 503 West Burlington street after being very ill since Saturday.

Had Mr. WATERS lived until next Monday he would have been 85 years old. The home in which he died is the home to which he took his bride fifty-four years ago. She was Miss Helena S. NICHOLAS and they were married Oct. 26, 1875, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles NICHOLAS (sic. who are buried in the WATERS family plot, Old.P.386, Evergreen Cemetery,
Fairfield, Iowa). She passed away at their home here July 3, 1928.

The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 oclock from the family home in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith of the Methodist church of which he had been a faithful member for many years. Interment will be in Evergreen
cemetery.

Mr. WATERS was born in Brown county, Ohio, November 18, 1844 and came with the family to Jefferson county four years later. His father, Robert WATERS, settled on a farm 1 1/2 miles south of the city and remained there two years
and then moved to Fairfield where young Theodore was sent to school. Then the Civil War came on and at 17 years of age, August 9, 1862, Mr. WATERS enlisted in Company B 19th Iowa Infantry and served until January 9, 1864 when he was discharged on account of illness.

He returned home, by way of boat from New Orleans to Burlington and thence by train, recovering his healh and then re-enlisted in the 45th Iowa, serving from April to September, 4, 1864. He was in two important battles, that of Prairie Grove, Ark., and the seige of Vicksburg. He was sick when the troops marched into Vicksburg, July 4, 1864, but went on with his
company to Brownsville, Texas, still sick. He weighed but 95 pounds when he reached home from that first enlistment.

After the war he learned the painting and decorating trade under Gilbert Lock, father of Miss Elizabeth O. Lock, librarian at the high school, and for fifty years, followed that trade. For 10 years Mr. WATERS was the
commander of George Strong Post, G.A.R.

Mr. and Mrs. WATERS were the parents of six children. Two sons survive their father Charles Raymond WATERS of Omaha, Neb., and Carleton N. WATERS of Chicago. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Joseph J. LOWRY of Omaha; a granddaughter Elizabeth WATERS of Chicago and a niece, Mrs. Floyd ARNETT of Dayton, Ohio who was brought up in the WATERS home. The sons and the niece,
and Mrs. Carleton N. WATERS were with Mr. WATERS at the time of his death.

Mr. WATERS was the only remaining charter member of Fairfield camp of Modern Woodman of America, retaining a membership in that order since Oct. 1, 1886. The local camp was organized three years after the order was founded in 1883, the head office then being at Lyons, Iowa. Mr. WATERS was also a charter member of Jefferson lodge No. 4, I.O.O.F. of this city.

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See also:

The Fairfield Ledger, Nov. 15, 1929. Editorial “ANOTHER VETERAN PASSES.”