Member of Church of Christ. In 1834 the family migrated to Washington County, Ohio and settled in Liberty Township, mear Germantown. Mr Walters was chosen first Township Officer 2-April-1838. In 1848 William and John Walters set aside ground for a cemetery in what was know as Pawpaw Valley Cemetery. November 1869 William with some of his children and families left Marietta OH on flat-boats and came down the Ohio River to Perry Co. IN. The trip consumed several weeks. He was a farmer.