Mother: Elizabeth Rives- died in Virginia during the Civil War while nursing sick and wounded Confederate soldiers.
James Rives Waties received his early education in the select schools of Charleston and entered the high school of that place with the intention of taking a thorough scholastic course when his studies were interrupted by the opening of the war. He was among the first to offer his services to the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting April 18, 1861, a few days after Sumpter was fired upon. He was a member of Company C Second South Carolina Infantry. Serving in the Virginia Campaign, he participated in the first battle of Manassas and at the engagements of Savage Station and Malvern Hill, after which he was transferred to a company of light artillery with which he served during the remainder of the war, surrendering in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For two years following the close of the war, Col. Waties lived in South Carolina, after which in March 1867, he came to Texas, stopping for a time in Galveston. He subsequently went to Fort Bend County, where for sixteen or eighteen years he was engaged in farming pursuits, beginning in a small way, but becoming in time one of the substantial planters of the county.
In 1872, while residing in Fort Bend, he married Miss Lalla Tomlinson, and being left a widower with three children by her death in 1880, he found it necessary to change his residence to a place where he could give his children better advantages in the matter of education and home training than he was able to give in the isolated country home, and accordingly in 1885, he moved to Houston.
Here in November 1890, he was elected Clerk of the Civil District Court of Harris County, and was reelected to the same in November 1892. Col. Waties is a Democrat in politics and was elected each time to the position he holds as the nominee of his party. He has filled the office of District Clerk very acceptably, having added greatly to his own popularity and raised the grade of public service since he has become an incumbent of this office. He is a member of Morton Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and of Richland Chapter No. 44 of the same order, as well as of the B.P.O.E. He is also Colonel of the First Calvary of the Texas Guards.
Col, Waties has no family, except the members of his immediate family, in his state. His mother died in Virginia; his father died in South Carolina. In the later state, his only brother also died, and there resides his only sister, Mrs. E.P. Waring. He has two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, and one son John.
>From the book "History of Texas". Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1895.
James Rives Waties received his early education in the select schools of Charleston and entered the high school of that place with the intention of taking a thorough scholastic course when his studies were interrupted by the opening of the war. He was among the first to offer his services to the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting April 18, 1861, a few days after Sumpter was fired upon. He was a member of Company C Second South Carolina Infantry. Serving in the Virginia Campaign, he participated in the first battle of Manassas and at the engagements of Savage Station and Malvern Hill, after which he was transferred to a company of light artillery with which he served during the remainder of the war, surrendering in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For two years following the close of the war, Col. Waties lived in South Carolina, after which in March 1867, he came to Texas, stopping for a time in Galveston. He subsequently went to Fort Bend County, where for sixteen or eighteen years he was engaged in farming pursuits, beginning in a small way, but becoming in time one of the substantial planters of the county.
In 1872, while residing in Fort Bend, he married Miss Lalla Tomlinson, and being left a widower with three children by her death in 1880, he found it necessary to change his residence to a place where he could give his children better advantages in the matter of education and home training than he was able to give in the isolated country home, and accordingly in 1885, he moved to Houston.
Here in November 1890, he was elected Clerk of the Civil District Court of Harris County, and was reelected to the same in November 1892. Col. Waties is a Democrat in politics and was elected each time to the position he holds as the nominee of his party. He has filled the office of District Clerk very acceptably, having added greatly to his own popularity and raised the grade of public service since he has become an incumbent of this office. He is a member of Morton Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and of Richland Chapter No. 44 of the same order, as well as of the B.P.O.E. He is also Colonel of the First Calvary of the Texas Guards.
Col, Waties has no family, except the members of his immediate family, in his state. His mother died in Virginia; his father died in South Carolina. In the later state, his only brother also died, and there resides his only sister, Mrs. E.P. Waring. He has two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, and one son John.
>From the book "History of Texas". Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1895.
Mother: Elizabeth Rives- died in Virginia during the Civil War while nursing sick and wounded Confederate soldiers.
James Rives Waties received his early education in the select schools of Charleston and entered the high school of that place with the intention of taking a thorough scholastic course when his studies were interrupted by the opening of the war. He was among the first to offer his services to the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting April 18, 1861, a few days after Sumpter was fired upon. He was a member of Company C Second South Carolina Infantry. Serving in the Virginia Campaign, he participated in the first battle of Manassas and at the engagements of Savage Station and Malvern Hill, after which he was transferred to a company of light artillery with which he served during the remainder of the war, surrendering in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For two years following the close of the war, Col. Waties lived in South Carolina, after which in March 1867, he came to Texas, stopping for a time in Galveston. He subsequently went to Fort Bend County, where for sixteen or eighteen years he was engaged in farming pursuits, beginning in a small way, but becoming in time one of the substantial planters of the county.
In 1872, while residing in Fort Bend, he married Miss Lalla Tomlinson, and being left a widower with three children by her death in 1880, he found it necessary to change his residence to a place where he could give his children better advantages in the matter of education and home training than he was able to give in the isolated country home, and accordingly in 1885, he moved to Houston.
Here in November 1890, he was elected Clerk of the Civil District Court of Harris County, and was reelected to the same in November 1892. Col. Waties is a Democrat in politics and was elected each time to the position he holds as the nominee of his party. He has filled the office of District Clerk very acceptably, having added greatly to his own popularity and raised the grade of public service since he has become an incumbent of this office. He is a member of Morton Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and of Richland Chapter No. 44 of the same order, as well as of the B.P.O.E. He is also Colonel of the First Calvary of the Texas Guards.
Col, Waties has no family, except the members of his immediate family, in his state. His mother died in Virginia; his father died in South Carolina. In the later state, his only brother also died, and there resides his only sister, Mrs. E.P. Waring. He has two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, and one son John.
>From the book "History of Texas". Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1895.
James Rives Waties received his early education in the select schools of Charleston and entered the high school of that place with the intention of taking a thorough scholastic course when his studies were interrupted by the opening of the war. He was among the first to offer his services to the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting April 18, 1861, a few days after Sumpter was fired upon. He was a member of Company C Second South Carolina Infantry. Serving in the Virginia Campaign, he participated in the first battle of Manassas and at the engagements of Savage Station and Malvern Hill, after which he was transferred to a company of light artillery with which he served during the remainder of the war, surrendering in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For two years following the close of the war, Col. Waties lived in South Carolina, after which in March 1867, he came to Texas, stopping for a time in Galveston. He subsequently went to Fort Bend County, where for sixteen or eighteen years he was engaged in farming pursuits, beginning in a small way, but becoming in time one of the substantial planters of the county.
In 1872, while residing in Fort Bend, he married Miss Lalla Tomlinson, and being left a widower with three children by her death in 1880, he found it necessary to change his residence to a place where he could give his children better advantages in the matter of education and home training than he was able to give in the isolated country home, and accordingly in 1885, he moved to Houston.
Here in November 1890, he was elected Clerk of the Civil District Court of Harris County, and was reelected to the same in November 1892. Col. Waties is a Democrat in politics and was elected each time to the position he holds as the nominee of his party. He has filled the office of District Clerk very acceptably, having added greatly to his own popularity and raised the grade of public service since he has become an incumbent of this office. He is a member of Morton Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and of Richland Chapter No. 44 of the same order, as well as of the B.P.O.E. He is also Colonel of the First Calvary of the Texas Guards.
Col, Waties has no family, except the members of his immediate family, in his state. His mother died in Virginia; his father died in South Carolina. In the later state, his only brother also died, and there resides his only sister, Mrs. E.P. Waring. He has two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, and one son John.
>From the book "History of Texas". Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1895.
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