Source Materials

     It's time to get back on track. Grandma Nancy Belle's father was James H. Waters, making him my great grandfather.  Here are the source materials.   

         A fire destroyed the majority of the 1890 U.S. Census.  For some reason, about 90% of it was outside it's fireproof vault, while every other census was protected from the flames. In the 1900 census, James was a "school teacher."

       And here is the license for James' marriage to my great grandmother, Sallie Sexton.  Notice that they married on February 14, 1900.

      

      And the license for his second marriage to Arlie Cross.  Notice the date.  It must have been easy to remember his anniversary!

So, in 1910, James was a civil engineer in Yakima, Washington, who listed himself as "widowed."