Biography of Cyrus C. Walters, page 548.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Cyrus C. Walters, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, was born in 
Wayne County, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1840, the eldest son of Joseph and Sarah 
(Nixon) Walters.  In October, 1846, his parents moved to De Kalb County, 
Ind., and settled on a tract of unimproved land, moving into a cabin without 
doors or windows, and with the ground for a floor. Here he was reared, his 
youth being spent in assisting his father.  He attended the district school 
a few weeks each winter when his services were not required on the farm, and 
by application in his leisure hours was qualified to teach when he was twenty 
years of age, a vocation he followed five years during the winter.  He was 
married April 10, 1862, to Sarah Donaldson, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, 
daughter of Henry and Jane Donaldson.  After his marriage he settled on a 
part of the old homestead, where he lived a year and then bought a farm 
where he lived till 1872, when he began the study of law, but a year later 
he abandoned it and engaged in the hardware business a year.  In February, 
1876, he bought the farm of 120 acres in Concord Township, where he has 
since lived.  He is a member of the Hacker Lodge, No. 326, A.F. & A.M.  
In politics he is a Democrat.  To him and his wife have been born five 
children---C.B., of St, Joseph, Ind., Joseph, M.L., Ford and Frank.

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