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This is the Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters, a half blood Catawba Indian. It is a true life story and I thought very interesting. It is long so I just posted the link in case anybody wants to read the entire story.
Brenda
Wilburn Waters was born on what is called Ready’s/Reedy river, a branch of the Yadkin, in Wilkes county, North Carolina, on the 20th day of November, 1812. From the best information that can now be had, his father, John P. Waters, was a French Huguenot, who emigrated to America in early life, about the beginning of the present century, and settled in South Carolina. He was a man of some education and liberal acquirements, of strong prejudices and passions, restless, reckless and fond of adventure. Being remarkably stout, fearless and passionate, he was considered dangerous when excited or laboring under a sense of injury, and was supposed by those with whom he communicated most freely, to have been a refugee from South Carolina, if not from France, from some cause he never revealed to others. He settled down, without any apparent calling, among the simple and obscure people on Ready’s river, where, after a time, he married his wife the mother of Wilburn, who was a half-breed of the Catawba Indian.
http://www.ls.net/~newriver/ww/wwaters.htm
I would love to talk with someone about the Waters family. I am related to Wilburn Waters by his brother James Waters. I have not been able to make a 100% positive connection but have talked to other researchers of the Waters family that agree with my findings so far. If anyone can share any information on the sibling of Wilburn Waters named James Waters I would love to speak with you and share information. Thanks so much!
Annette Livengood-King
How lucky you are to have such an extensive account of an Ancestor. I should be heading off to beddy bye, but the story is good and I keep wandering back to it. Is there anything said about how the newspaper man got all this information? I can imagine the two as drinking buddies, with the one regaling the other.
Nice to be keeping one of Brenda’s posts alive. We lost her to diabetes some years back. Here’s to you, Brenda! Great story!
Linda thank you for letting me know of Brenda’s passing. I had no idea. I am sorry she passed. As I have heard it the man who wrote the account of Wilburn Waters actually knew him and had gotten the story straight from Wilburn. They very well could of been drinking buddies. Never can tell. It is a wonderful story and account and I am so glad it was made and then shared for all later generations. I am drawn back to it as well. It is a great story!
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