Emanuel Waters married Nancy E. Gornto 8 Jan 1851, Madison Co., Florida.
Emanuel Waters was a Confederate soldier, Enlisted 5-15-1862 Huston Florida at the Confederate Camp.
Death was caused by the injury that he recieved, when he fell over a pile of logs on which he was standing, at the battle of The Wilderness, May 5-6-1864. He was captured and released from the capture at Richmond Virginia. He walked all the way home to Florida, with paralysis of the right leg. Can you amagine the pain and suffering that he indured on the way home. This turned out later to be the cause of his death. There was three brothers that went to War and only one came home. Nancy is not buried with him but a stone is next to him where she will not be fogotten. Nancy is buried Fayetteville Cemetery, next to her family in Dixie County, Florida.Emanuel is buried in Townsend Cemetery, Gilchrist County, Florida. I have 9 children listed for the family.
Emanuel Waters was a Confederate soldier, Enlisted 5-15-1862 Huston Florida at the Confederate Camp.
Death was caused by the injury that he recieved, when he fell over a pile of logs on which he was standing, at the battle of The Wilderness, May 5-6-1864. He was captured and released from the capture at Richmond Virginia. He walked all the way home to Florida, with paralysis of the right leg. Can you amagine the pain and suffering that he indured on the way home. This turned out later to be the cause of his death. There was three brothers that went to War and only one came home. Nancy is not buried with him but a stone is next to him where she will not be fogotten. Nancy is buried Fayetteville Cemetery, next to her family in Dixie County, Florida.Emanuel is buried in Townsend Cemetery, Gilchrist County, Florida. I have 9 children listed for the family.
Emanuel Waters married Nancy E. Gornto 8 Jan 1851, Madison Co., Florida.
Emanuel Waters was a Confederate soldier, Enlisted 5-15-1862 Huston Florida at the Confederate Camp.
Death was caused by the injury that he recieved, when he fell over a pile of logs on which he was standing, at the battle of The Wilderness, May 5-6-1864. He was captured and released from the capture at Richmond Virginia. He walked all the way home to Florida, with paralysis of the right leg. Can you amagine the pain and suffering that he indured on the way home. This turned out later to be the cause of his death. There was three brothers that went to War and only one came home. Nancy is not buried with him but a stone is next to him where she will not be fogotten. Nancy is buried Fayetteville Cemetery, next to her family in Dixie County, Florida.Emanuel is buried in Townsend Cemetery, Gilchrist County, Florida. I have 9 children listed for the family.
Emanuel Waters was a Confederate soldier, Enlisted 5-15-1862 Huston Florida at the Confederate Camp.
Death was caused by the injury that he recieved, when he fell over a pile of logs on which he was standing, at the battle of The Wilderness, May 5-6-1864. He was captured and released from the capture at Richmond Virginia. He walked all the way home to Florida, with paralysis of the right leg. Can you amagine the pain and suffering that he indured on the way home. This turned out later to be the cause of his death. There was three brothers that went to War and only one came home. Nancy is not buried with him but a stone is next to him where she will not be fogotten. Nancy is buried Fayetteville Cemetery, next to her family in Dixie County, Florida.Emanuel is buried in Townsend Cemetery, Gilchrist County, Florida. I have 9 children listed for the family.
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Birth date on tombstone is incorrect. January 12, 1851 is actually his marriage date.
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