Individual Details

1790 Reconstructed Census (tax list) Franklin Co GA: Robert Walters, John Walters, Moses Walters and Peter Walters. Charles Cawthon, Claborn Cawthon, and David Cawthorn. Mathias Magbe (McBee) and James McBee.

Franklin Co GA Tax list of 1798 includes Moses Walters. 1 dwelling, 1 out house, 2 acres, value $125. District 7, 3rd Division.
On another page, 156 acres, $200 value.

DEEDS OF FRANKLIN CO GA, 1784-1826; Martha Walters Acker; 1976
Deed Book NNN, Page 121: Deed dated Ga. 30 April 1798, rec. (no date), from Moses Walters and wife Elizabeth of Franklin Co. to Robert Walters of same. In cons. of $200, conveys 43 ac. in Franklin Co., being part of land wereon said Moses Walters now lives, adj. Peter Walters ... (Note - the remainder off this deed is missing).
DB RRR, p.170-171 5 Nov 1808; Rec. 14 Oct 1809 Moses Walters & wife Elizabeth to Robert Walters SR [his brother who has become the senior Robert since the death of their father] and Joseph Walters [son of Robert] for $1100. 200 acres, tract where sd Moses now lives; begin at wagon ford of Big Shoal Crk running the dividing ridge bet waters of Big Shoal and the Tugalo River agreeable to the will of Robert Walters, dec'd; adj line of Robert Walters and Samuel Walters; adj William Cauthon's line & the line made by Robert & Moses Walters. Wit: Boley Conner, Samuel Walters, Charles Walters. Conner made oath before Eli Bryan JP on 11 Apr 1809.
[Samuel would be his brother as there are no nephews named Samuel. Charles was a son of Elijah and a nephew to Moses.]

Moses is said have left Franklin Co by 1808, but he was still buying land on Shoal Creek as late as May of 1816. He received a grant for 1 league and 1 labor at the land office in Nacogdoches, TX, 1835. All his sons are said to have gone to Texas with him. Censuses show some of the grandchildren to have been born in Mississippi so possibly the families were there in between Georgia and Texas.

The Walters book says they moved to Madison Co, MS Territory [AL] in 1812, then Shelby Co AL, then Yazoo Co MS, finally to Smith Co TX.

Robert B. Walters found the following in the 1820 census for Shelby Co AL: George, Moses, & Tillman - all white males over the age of 21. There are land patents to a Moses Walters in Fayette & Tuscaloosa Counties in AL but the dates range from 1839 to 1858 - I would think this is a different man.

Moses Walters' name appears on the Tax Lists of 1837, 1839, 1840 & 1845 for Nacogdoches Co, TX He received land grants #27 & 91 for land in Nacogdoches Co.

List of sons found on

Also on WorldConnect on page posted by Patricia Mills , updated 26 Jun 2002.

May be buried in Vanzandt Co TX according to Walters book.

1850 Census. Moses was living with his son Andrew in Cherokee Co TX.

From NACOGDOCHES COUNTY FAMILES by the Nacogdoches Co Genealogical Society, VanZandt Co Library, Canton, TX.
Moses Walters Family
Moses Walters, my great grandfather, left Mississippi in December 1835 with seven grown sons and descended on what was then the Department of Nacogdoches, later known as Cherokee County [TX]. His ancestors left Scotland, came to Virginia, then to Georgia where his parents died. His plantation in Mississippi was where the city of Jackson is now located. He came from a family of seven boys. His father, Robert, in his will named them as William, John, Robert, Elijah, Peter, Samuel, and Moses. He also named four daughters; Betsey, Susannah, Hannah, and Mary, none of whom came to Texas as far as the records show.
Moses was born in 1789. [this date not possible] He married Elizabeth Cauthon, daughter of William Cauthon of Franklin Co, GA. They were parents of seven sons: Robert, Wade Hampton, Andrew C., Boly C., Charles Mote, Tillman, & George T. The names of Moses' sisters [daughters?] are unknown but it is understood that they were married and stayed in either Mississippi or Georgia.
Moses received grant #27 for 1 league and 1 labor of land upon condition of paying seven dollars for each labor of irrigable land, five dollars for each labor of arable land and two dollars and forty cents for each labor of pasture land. The town of Sacul is on Moses Walters' Survey.
There are sixteen headrights in Texas in the Walters name. The main headright is in Cherokee County.
Moses is buried with his wife, Elizabeth, in the Starrville Cemetery on the Walters estate at Starrville or at Mt. Pisgah. The marker has been destroyed.
By Velma Walters Moore.

Birth	1770	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Marriage	1789	Elizabeth Cawthon
Death	1850	Smith County, Texas

Spouse	Elizabeth Cawthon (1773 - 1840)
Child	Tillman Walters (1790 - 1869)
Child	George T. Walters (1794 - 1875)
Child	Robert S. Walters (1799 - 1865)
Child	Boley Conner Walters (1802 - 1856)
Child	Andrew Chisum Walters (1805 - 1886)
Child	Charles Mote Walters (1807 - 1846)
Child	Wade Hampton Walters (1809 - 1877)

Father	Robert Walters ( - 1793)
Mother	Joannah McBee (1733 - )
Sibling	Robert Walters Jr. (1754 - 1827)
Sibling	Peter Walters (1755 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth "Betty" Walters (1755 - )
Sibling	Elijah Walters (1758 - 1829)
Sibling	William Walters ( - )
Sibling	Susannah Walters ( - )
Sibling	John Walters ( - 1836)
Sibling	Samuel Walters (1764 - 1815)
Sibling	Hannah Walters (1765 - )
Sibling	Mary Walters ( - )