From "the Family of James Washington Winters, Sr." by Pauline Winters McCullough.
He started the Texas branch of the Winters family. He was a War of 1812 veteran who left Tennessee in a covered wagon with his family in August 1834 and arrived in Nacodoches in December where he received the title to an original Spanish land grant and the same year held a headright certificate to the land that eventually became the town of Old Waverly.
Old Waverly is essentially a ghost town today, near New Waverly, Texas. All that remains is a cemetery and a Presbyterian church.
James W. Winters' father was Thomas J. Winters, who served 84 months in George Washington's Continental Army. The home where James was born in 1773, in Halifax, North Carolina, was robbed by Tories during the American Revolution.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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