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Birth	:	9 Dec 1838 Onondaga County, New York, USA
Death	:	20 Nov 1913
Burial	:	Independent Burial Ground Argyle Chapel, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, England
Coordinate	:	51.3925420, -2.3536920
Description	:	1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS 113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO pages 420~421 LEWIS WATTERBURY LEWIS WATTERBURY is one of the prominent early settlers of the county in which he has lived since July, 1853. He was born in Onondaga County, New York, December 9, 1838. He is a son of Watterbury, a well~known pioneer of the township. Our subject was a lad of eight years when his father came to this country. Iowa was then a Territory. They lived three years in Jackson and Jones counties; they then went to Clayton County, Iowa,... Read More	1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS 113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO pages 420~421 LEWIS WATTERBURY LEWIS WATTERBURY is one of the prominent early settlers of the county in which he has lived since July, 1853. He was born in Onondaga County, New York, December 9, 1838. He is a son of Watterbury, a well~known pioneer of the township. Our subject was a lad of eight years when his father came to this country. Iowa was then a Territory. They lived three years in Jackson and Jones counties; they then went to Clayton County, Iowa, where they lived until 1853, when they came to this county, Fairview Township, section 17. There were only four families in the township. Lewis was then fifteen years old; he was reared as a farmer, assisting to improve the homestead, where he grew to manhood. His education was received in the common schools. Mr. Watterbury was married November 4, 1860, to Miss Rachel Watson, a daughter of Abram Watson, a pioneer of the county, now a resident of Oakland, Iowa. Mrs. Rachel Watterbury died March 21, 1862. Mr. Watterbury was again married June 11, 1863, to Miss Catharine Custer, daughter of Henry Custer, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. By this union six children were born ~~ Elizabeth, wife of Jesse McCoy, of Nebraska; Grant, Elma, Elmer, Charles and Isabella (deceased). The mother of these children died in September, 1875. Mr. Watterbury married his present wife December 21, 1879. She was Mrs. Susan Green, a daughter of Japheth and Eliza (Gates) Brown, born in Clermont County, Ohio, and reared in Livingston County, Illinois. Mr. Watterbury improved a farm of 100 acres in section 16, which he sold in 1881, and bought 240 acres of wild land where he now lives. He has made many improvements; has a good frame house, buildings for stock and grain, and everything conveniently arranged for farming and stock~raising. He is a Republican, and cast his first vote for Lincoln in 1860. lie has served as township trustee, assessor, and as county supervisor for three years, filling these offices with entire satisfaction to the public. He is a member of the Masonic order, Parian Lodge, of Harlan; and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Carthage Lodge. He is president of the Anti~horse~thief Association of Fairview Township, and has been for several years. He has ever taken an active and prominent part in politics and all public enterprises. He is a man yet in the prime of life, and has the respect and confidence of all who know him. TRANSCRIBED BY MARTHANN KOHL-FUHS

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Lewis Waterbury's memorial is located at: Independent Burial Ground Argyle Chapel, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, England.
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Lewis Waterbury death on 20 Nov 1913 in
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Latitude: 51.3925420
Longitude: -2.3536920

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Spouse

Susan Amanda Brown Waterbury

(1845 - 1929)

Children

Elma Waterbury Dickinson

(1870 - 1914)

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