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William McWaters
William McWaters (ca. 1844-1875) was an American gunfighter from Missouri who once rode with William Clarke Quantrill. Though not as well known today as the likes of the James-Younger Gang, McWaters did belong to that fraternity of dangerous men spawned by the Kansas-Missouri border wars and American Civil War.
==Early life==
William McWaters〔Contemporary Newspaper accounts on McWaters' life reported that he was born in 1844 in Platte County the year after the Platte County flood. Family genealogist have often recorded his birth as falling on March 7, 1845 in St. Charles County〕 was the second of eight children raised by Missouri native Hugh McWaters and his Kentucky-born wife Mary. He lived on farms across Missouri in Platte, St. Charles and Cedar counties〔Hugh McWaters - 1850-1860 US Census Records〕 over the first sixteen years of his life.〔(Mcwaters The Desperado Who Headed the Riot in the Nebraska Penitentiary—Sketch of His Life- St. Louis Globe-Democrat, (St. Louis, MO) Tuesday, June 08, 1875; pg. 2; Issue 20; col B )〕 In the late1840s McWaters' father, along with John Salmon (a relative of his mother) and a John Dyer, were arrested in St. Charles County for beating up one Alexander Balbridge. The case was later thrown out on grounds that the original court documents failed to list a prosecutor.〔(Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents For Pleading and Practice 1903, Volume 16 pg. 703 )〕〔(Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Missouri ). Volume 10 1847〕
According to an 1875 newspaper biographical sketch, McWaters, when not yet thirteen, participated in a pro-slavery raid across the Missouri border into Kansas. When the American Civil War broke out some five years later, McWaters joined a group of guerilla fighters, commonly called bushwhackers. On September 3, 1861, his group sabotaged a bridge that led to the derailment of a Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad train that carried Union soldiers among its passengers. The attack, which became known as the Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy, killed nearly twenty passengers and crew and injured scores more.〔
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