"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Tyler County West Virginia"
H. H. Hardesty, 1872

WILLIAM W. WATERS was born in Tyler county, December 3, 1849, but has had 
a wide and varied experience in many States, having served in the regular 
Army on the frontier for five years. He enlisted May 15, 1871, in the 6th 
United States Cavalry, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was discharged at Camp 
Apache, Arizona Territory, May 15, 1876. He was engaged in battle with 
the Indians at Mulberry creek and McClellan creek, both fought in Texas 
in 1874, and in the fight at Camp Apache, January 9, 1876. This battle 
was the last in which Mr. Waters was engaged, as soon after, he lost his 
right-hand thumb by accident, and received a discharge. Before returning 
to West Virginia, he traveled through many of the western states and 
territories, was once exposed to the dangers of a sand storm on the 
desert, and at another time sailed 1,400 miles along the Pacific coast. 
His father was John Waters, born in Virginia, June 22, 1818, a son of 
William and Harriet Hatfield Waters. John Waters, great-grandfather of 
Mr. Waters, was a drummer through the entire war of 1776. John Waters 
married Elizabeth J. Cox, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, 
June 5, 1827, and they were the parents of eight children, William W. 
being the third child and oldest son. In Ritchie county, West Virginia, 
September 6, 1877, William W. Waters wedded Sarah I. Garner, and they 
have one child, Ethan Allen, born November 1, 1878. Sarah I. Garner was 
born November 1, 1853, a daughter of I.C. and Rebecca Lewin Garner. Her 
mother died November 17, 1866, and her father still lives in Ritchie 
county. W.W. Waters is a farmer and practical engineer of Centreville 
district, Tyler county, and should be addressed at Central station, 
Dodridge county, West Virginia.

Submitted by Susie Koehrsen.