Individual Details
Lydia Stamps
(Abt 1785 - 4 May 1880)
Marriage Info: from "Marriages Pittsylvania County, Virginia 1806-1830"
by C.L. Knorr, p. 27.
Her mother, Leyanner Stamps, consented to the marriage of "Spicer Walters
and Lydia Stamps, dau" Bond date is 29 Dec 1812. Sur: William Burgess. Married on 12 Jan 1813 by the Rev. William Blair.
Lydia is a younger sister of Catey Stamps who married Archibald Walters.
Found in the 1850 Census, age 69, with Lydia and Rufus. Southern Dist., Pittsylvania Co, VA 26 Nov 1850. p.125b Hh 965
Spiers Walters, 69 (Note - he is also in the Mortality census having just died)
Lydia, 66
Rufus, 29
1860 Slave Schedule, Pittsylvania, Lydia Walters. Lists 14 slaves from a female age 76 to a baby girl 8 months old. Four males - ages 44, 32, & 30 - one male child age 11.
1860 Census. Southern Dist, Pittsylvania, VA, Hh 1264
Lydia Waters, 74, Farmer
Thomas, 14 (age of her son Joel's boy)
Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, VA, 8 May 1880, Saturday, p.2
News from Danville.
Mrs. Lydia Walters, a highly-honored lady, died at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. J. H. Lindsay, in this county, on the 4th instant, in her ninety-fifth year. Mrs. Walters was the mother of the late Professor W. T. Walters of Wake Forest College, and of Captain Joel B. Walters, a distinquished farmer and planter of Caswell County, NC.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1785 | Pittsylvania County, Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 29 Dec 1812 | Pittsylvania County, Virginia - Spiers Walters | | ||
| Death | 4 May 1880 | Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Families
| Spouse | Spiers Walters (1781 - 1859) |
| Child | Mary Catherine Walters (1813 - 1880) |
| Child | Joel Brown Walters (1816 - 1893) |
| Child | Felix Walters ( - ) |
| Child | Rufus Dodson Walters (1820 - 1868) |
| Child | William Thomas Walters (1822 - 1876) |
| Child | Martha Ann Walters (1825 - ) |
| Father | JOHN Stamps (1746 - 1812) |
| Mother | ELEANOR Dodson (1749 - 1816) |
| Sibling | Mary "Molly\Polly" Stamps (1766 - ) |
| Sibling | William Stamps (1767 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Nancy Stamps (1769 - 1837) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Betsey" Stamps (1772 - 1793) |
| Sibling | Sarah "Sally" Stamps (1774 - 1780) |
| Sibling | Rhoda Stamps (1776 - ) |
| Sibling | CATHERINE "Catey" Stamps (1778 - 1839) |
| Sibling | Timothy Stamps (1779 - 1867) |
| Sibling | Thomas Stamps (1781 - 1834) |
| Sibling | John Stamps Jr. (1784 - 1843) |
Endnotes
1. US Census 1850 VA Digital Online.
2. Jordan R. Dodd et al, Virginia Marriage Index 1740-1850. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. (Precision Indexing Publishers, Bountiful UT 19xx).
3. Rootsweb or USGenWeb Online Sources