son of Thomas Waters & Sally Hughes (associated with Chief Vann) (1/2 Cherokee), her family lived along the Etowah River. Thomas supported England in the war, afterwards he moved to East Florida, St. Augustine, to the Bahamas, & eventually to London where he remained until his death around the time of the War of 1812. George had a sister, Mary Waters (wife of Alexander McQueen Netherclift); they were raised by William Clark of Bryan County, GA
George Morgan Waters was born in the Indian territory of GA. His father Thomas was an Indian trader and was a wealthy plantation owner who had a plantation at the meeting of the Broad and Savannah rivers. (paragraph provided by Kathy Waters)
"The largest slave owner within the Cherokee Nation was George Waters who resided on the Chattahoochee in Gwinnett & Forsyth Counties near present day McClure Bridge. While other slave owners has 20 or 30 slaves, Waters in 1835, reported ownership of 100 slaves." (Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, R. Halliburton, 1977)
In Nov/Dec 1838, the Georgia Legislature enstated full rights & benefits of citizenship to certain named Cherokee Indians; Geo. M. Waters & descendants specifically named.
41 slaves were liberated per the will of Geo. M. Waters, & in July 1856, were re-patriated to Liberia, Africa by the American Colonization Society. Ship name: Elvira Owen. Within a year of arrival, most had died, & of the ones remaining, they returned to the U.S. & to Georgia.
husband of Catherine Fyffe, (a niece of Wm. Clark) married January 1, 1800, in Bryan County, Georgia. She died between 1835-1840, probably buried at Harewood Plantation in Bryan County, GA, location currently unknown.
Children:
Thomas Jefferson Waters
Williamina Clark Waters Cleland
Sarah Margaret Waters Charlton
Catherine Harriet Waters Fitts (died before her father)
Inscription:
"This tombstone is erected as a token of affection by his three surviving children."
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north winds breath,
And stars to set,-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death."
(poem by Felicia Dorothes Hemans, popular in that day)
George Morgan Waters was born in the Indian territory of GA. His father Thomas was an Indian trader and was a wealthy plantation owner who had a plantation at the meeting of the Broad and Savannah rivers. (paragraph provided by Kathy Waters)
"The largest slave owner within the Cherokee Nation was George Waters who resided on the Chattahoochee in Gwinnett & Forsyth Counties near present day McClure Bridge. While other slave owners has 20 or 30 slaves, Waters in 1835, reported ownership of 100 slaves." (Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, R. Halliburton, 1977)
In Nov/Dec 1838, the Georgia Legislature enstated full rights & benefits of citizenship to certain named Cherokee Indians; Geo. M. Waters & descendants specifically named.
41 slaves were liberated per the will of Geo. M. Waters, & in July 1856, were re-patriated to Liberia, Africa by the American Colonization Society. Ship name: Elvira Owen. Within a year of arrival, most had died, & of the ones remaining, they returned to the U.S. & to Georgia.
husband of Catherine Fyffe, (a niece of Wm. Clark) married January 1, 1800, in Bryan County, Georgia. She died between 1835-1840, probably buried at Harewood Plantation in Bryan County, GA, location currently unknown.
Children:
Thomas Jefferson Waters
Williamina Clark Waters Cleland
Sarah Margaret Waters Charlton
Catherine Harriet Waters Fitts (died before her father)
Inscription:
"This tombstone is erected as a token of affection by his three surviving children."
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north winds breath,
And stars to set,-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death."
(poem by Felicia Dorothes Hemans, popular in that day)
son of Thomas Waters & Sally Hughes (associated with Chief Vann) (1/2 Cherokee), her family lived along the Etowah River. Thomas supported England in the war, afterwards he moved to East Florida, St. Augustine, to the Bahamas, & eventually to London where he remained until his death around the time of the War of 1812. George had a sister, Mary Waters (wife of Alexander McQueen Netherclift); they were raised by William Clark of Bryan County, GA
George Morgan Waters was born in the Indian territory of GA. His father Thomas was an Indian trader and was a wealthy plantation owner who had a plantation at the meeting of the Broad and Savannah rivers. (paragraph provided by Kathy Waters)
"The largest slave owner within the Cherokee Nation was George Waters who resided on the Chattahoochee in Gwinnett & Forsyth Counties near present day McClure Bridge. While other slave owners has 20 or 30 slaves, Waters in 1835, reported ownership of 100 slaves." (Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, R. Halliburton, 1977)
In Nov/Dec 1838, the Georgia Legislature enstated full rights & benefits of citizenship to certain named Cherokee Indians; Geo. M. Waters & descendants specifically named.
41 slaves were liberated per the will of Geo. M. Waters, & in July 1856, were re-patriated to Liberia, Africa by the American Colonization Society. Ship name: Elvira Owen. Within a year of arrival, most had died, & of the ones remaining, they returned to the U.S. & to Georgia.
husband of Catherine Fyffe, (a niece of Wm. Clark) married January 1, 1800, in Bryan County, Georgia. She died between 1835-1840, probably buried at Harewood Plantation in Bryan County, GA, location currently unknown.
Children:
Thomas Jefferson Waters
Williamina Clark Waters Cleland
Sarah Margaret Waters Charlton
Catherine Harriet Waters Fitts (died before her father)
Inscription:
"This tombstone is erected as a token of affection by his three surviving children."
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north winds breath,
And stars to set,-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death."
(poem by Felicia Dorothes Hemans, popular in that day)
George Morgan Waters was born in the Indian territory of GA. His father Thomas was an Indian trader and was a wealthy plantation owner who had a plantation at the meeting of the Broad and Savannah rivers. (paragraph provided by Kathy Waters)
"The largest slave owner within the Cherokee Nation was George Waters who resided on the Chattahoochee in Gwinnett & Forsyth Counties near present day McClure Bridge. While other slave owners has 20 or 30 slaves, Waters in 1835, reported ownership of 100 slaves." (Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians, R. Halliburton, 1977)
In Nov/Dec 1838, the Georgia Legislature enstated full rights & benefits of citizenship to certain named Cherokee Indians; Geo. M. Waters & descendants specifically named.
41 slaves were liberated per the will of Geo. M. Waters, & in July 1856, were re-patriated to Liberia, Africa by the American Colonization Society. Ship name: Elvira Owen. Within a year of arrival, most had died, & of the ones remaining, they returned to the U.S. & to Georgia.
husband of Catherine Fyffe, (a niece of Wm. Clark) married January 1, 1800, in Bryan County, Georgia. She died between 1835-1840, probably buried at Harewood Plantation in Bryan County, GA, location currently unknown.
Children:
Thomas Jefferson Waters
Williamina Clark Waters Cleland
Sarah Margaret Waters Charlton
Catherine Harriet Waters Fitts (died before her father)
Inscription:
"This tombstone is erected as a token of affection by his three surviving children."
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north winds breath,
And stars to set,-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death."
(poem by Felicia Dorothes Hemans, popular in that day)
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