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Eighth Generation
933. Martin
Luther Waters375,376,928 was born
about 1848 in Clay Township, Washington County, Iowa.375,376 He appeared
in the census in 1880 in Clay Township, Washington County, Iowa.
In 1880 he was in Farmer. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Clay
Township, Washington County, Iowa. In 1900 he was in Farm laborer.
He appeared in the census in 1920 in Ontario, San Bernardino County, California.
In 1920 he was in Teamster, City Yards. He died after 1920.
From Coffin page:
Grandmother Polly Bedwell always had a particular fancy for her eldest grandchild,
Martin Waters, and seems to have been more or less indifferent to the other nine.
Evidence of this fact is her bequeathing the farm to him instead of to her daughter,
her natural heir. It is probable that he lived with her after her husband's death,
for after his marriage, he took his wife Mary to live there until shetired of
it. They subsequently cleaned up another log cabin on the farm (which had housed
sheep and chickens) and they lived there. In1880 Martin Waters built the "new"
frame house on the Earl Morgan farm. It was only a shell, lacking a basement,
foundation, lath, plaster, or porches -- about everything except basic walls,
roof and floor!
Martin inherited the poor business judgment of his father, George Washington
Waters. He mortgaged the farm in order to go into the business of selling stump
pullers. He mortgaged his cattle and saw them driven away for the debt. He worked
extremely hard, digging tile ditches, working out by the day, cutting timber,
-- anything he couldfind to do for wages. But eventually he lost his farm by
foreclosure. Mary Jane [--?--]375 was born about 1852 in Ohio.375 She died before 1920. Martin Luther Waters
and Mary Jane [--?--] had the following children:
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