Sixth Generation


363. Robert Alexander WALTERS4 was born on 14 January 1838 in Caswell County, North Carolina.69 He died on 15 June 1917 at the age of 79 in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Walters, Robert Alexander: Co. A (11 Jul 1861) born Caswell Co., NC, 14 Jan 1838, 5'7", gray eyes, brown hair, light complexion; apptd Cpl. 23 Apr 1862, wounded 1 Jun 1862 at Seven Pines; returned to duty in Aug; wounded 17 Sep 1862 , at Antietam Creek, captured at Sayler's Creek 6 Apr 1865; paroled 22 Jun 1865, at Point Lookout Prison; postwar tobacconist in Danville, died 1917. Buried Green Hill Cemetery, Danville. Source: Virginia Regiments 18th Virginia Infantry


1870 Census. Pittsylvania Co, VA, Subdivision North of Dan River, Chatham P.O.
Hh 1157
Robert A. Walters, age 32, b. North Carolina
Nannie R., age 21, b. VA
Annie Lee, age 5. Mary S. age 3. Kate, age 1

1880 Census. Pittsylvania Co VA, Danville, Hh 60
Robert A. Walters, age 41, buying tobacco, b. NC
Nannie R., age 33, wife.
Annie L., age 14, daughter. Mary R. age 12, daughter.

Virginia Death Certificate #15391
R. A. Walters of S. Main, Danville, VA died of ilio colitis and senility, 15 Jun 1917. He was married, age 79, retired. Father was Azariah Graves Walters; bother was Bettie Payne Richardson, both born in Virginia. O. M. Flinn of Danville was the informant. Buried Green Hill, June 16th.

Robert Alexander WALTERS and Anna Miller "Nannie" REDD were married.4 Anna Miller "Nannie" REDD was born about 1848 in Virginia.

Robert Alexander WALTERS and Anna Miller "Nannie" REDD had the following children:

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Annie Lee WALTERS was born on 27 June 1865 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She died in 1964 at the age of 99 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Annie Walters Cooper (1865-1924)
Mrs. Cooper, 99, succumbs Today. Mrs. Annie Walters Cooper, 99, died at the Sunnyside Presbyterian Home at Massanetta this morning at 4 o'clock.
Born in Danville June 27, 1865, Mrs. Cooper was a daughter of the late Robert A. Walters and Ann Redd Walters. She lived at the Sunnyside Home here until it was moved to Massenetta. While here, she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by two great nieces, Mrs. Robert B. Wooding of Danville and Mrs. Robert S. Curtis of Petersburg.
Graveside services will be conducted in Green Hill Cemetery Monday afternoon at 2:30 by Dr. John K. Roberts.

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Mary WALTERS.

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Kate WALTERS was born in 1869 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Kate must have died as a young child. She was not in the 1880 census.