The photo added by NE MO was taken from the 1911 History of Adair County, Missouri by E.M. Violette and photos were done by W.M. Denslow. Photo appears on page 680.

Lewis Walters married his first wife, Mary Ann Wirtman/Wortman, on August 27, 1854 and they had one child: Martha Jane Walters.
Lewis married a second time to Rachel Jane Cook on August 9, 1856 and they had sixteen children all linked below.
Lewis married a third time to Mary Josephine Price Strait on October 23, 1912 in Adair County, Missouri.

This family can be found on the 1870 Adair County, Mo. federal census, page 36, living in Morrow Township, household #64 with the following family members:
WALTERS, Lewis--------34-M-TN
WALTERS, Rachael J.---31-F-IN
WALTERS, Martha J.----14-F-MO
WALTERS, Rachael E.---11-F-MO
WALTERS, Louisa E.-----5-F-MO
WALTERS, James M.------5-M-MO
WALTERS, Leah----------1-F-MO

THE HISTORY OF ADAIR, SULLIVAN, PUTNAM AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES, MISSOURI published in 1888 by Goodspeed Publishing Co., pages 1031 & 1032.
---Lewis Walters, a farmer and stock raiser of Morrow Township, was born in 1836, and is the eldest of eleven children of William and Jerusha (Lay) Walters, both natives of East Tennessee, born in 1817 and 1818, respectively. They were married about 1835, and in 1841 moved to what is now Adair county, locating first northeast of Kirksville, and the year following settled on Spring Creek, Morrow Township, where William became one of the substantial and successful farmers, living there until his death in 1873, which occurred during the vigor of his manhood. He was a man of no education. His father, John, was a Virginian by birth, and came of Welsh ancestors, and served in the War of 1812. Mrs. Walters was a daughter of Lewis Lay, a native of Virginia, who afterward located in Morrow Township, where he lived until 1878, when he immigrated with his son to Gallatin County, Mont., where he died in 1879, being eighty-two years of age. Mrs. Walters died in 1868. Her grandfather, Thomas Lay, was also a Virginian, and an old Revolutionary soldier, who came to Adair county in 1841. Our subject was born in Grainger County, Tenn., but was reared at home in the woods of Morrow Township, when the country was filled with wild and ferocious animals. His school life did not exceed nine months, and was passed at the rudest of log houses in the forest. Mr. Walters is truly one of the pioneer boys of the county, and nearly all the changes and improvements which have been made have passed under his observation. In his boyhood days it was the custom of the people to make an annual trip on the Mississippi River, taking the products of their region, such as hides, pelts, honey, beeswax, venison, hams, etc., and upon their return bringing the next year's supply of groceries. The milling was done at a distance of about thirty miles, in some of the other counties. He married in 1854, to Miss Mary Ann Wirtman, and they have one child, Martha Jane (wife of Franklin Bain, of Dubuque, Fergus County, Mont.). Mrs. Walters died in 1855, and in 1858 he married Miss Rachel Jane, daughter of Thomas B. and Leah Cook, a native of Dearborn County, Eng., and they have had sixteen children, ten of whom are living. They are Elizabeth (wife of J. W. G. Sloan), Louisa E. (wife of J. R. Sloan), James M. (of Montana), Jonah W., Andrew L., Phoebe M., Henry Lee, John S., George M. and Nellie L. Since his marriage he has been a resident of his present farm, with the exception of the two years between 1878 and 1880 spent in Montana Territory. He now has 320 acres in Section 2, on Spring Creek, Morrow Township, twelve miles northwest of Kirksville, making a good sized farm, all the result of his own hard labor. He at first purchased but eighty acres from the Government, and farming and stock raising have been his sole occupations. In 1864 he joined Company B., Thirty-ninth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and after about eight months service in Northeast Missouri was discharged, in 1865, on account of disability. He has been a Democrat all his life, and cast his first presidential vote for Douglass in 1860. He and his wife are member of the old Regular Baptist Church. He distinctly remembers seeing the Sioux Indians when a child.

This family can also be found on the 1900 Adair County, Mo. federal census, page 134 A, living in Morrow Township, household #154-154 with the following family members:
WALTERS, Lewis-------Apr1836-64-TN-TN-TN
WALTERS, Jane--------May1839-61-IN-NY-MD
WALTERS, Jonah W.----Dec1870-29-MO-TN-IN
WALTERS, John S.-----Oct1879-20-MT-TN-IN
WALTERS, George W.---Oct1883-17-MO-TN-IN
WALTERS, Nellie M.---Feb1885-15-MO-TN-IN
COLLINS, Mary--------Oct1870-39-MO-KS-MO, a servant.

The following is from the History of Adair County, by E.M. Violette, Professor of History, State Normal School, Kirksville, Mo. Published by The Denslow History Company, 1911 - Biographical, Lewis Walters, pages 677 and 681.
---LEWIS WALTERS was born in Grainer County, Tennessee, April 25, 1836, a son of William and Jerusha (Lay) Walters. He was married August 9. 1856, to Rachel J. Cook, daughter of Thomas and Leah Cook. Mrs. Walters was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, May 3. 1839. They had seventeen children: Rachel E., born August 17, 1858, now Mrs. J.W.G. Sloan; Mary A., March 11, 1860, died July 31, 1861; William T., September 26, 1861, died December 10, 1862; Hugh A., December 23, 1862, died October 10, 1868; Jerusha L., March 8, 1864, died August 14, 1864; Louisa E., December 20, 1865, and James M., same date, twins; Louisa is now Mrs. James R. Sloan; Leah G. and Laura G., January 12, 1869, twins; Laura died the same day of her birth, and Leah died October 6, 1870; Jonah W., December 29, 1870; Lewis A., November 14, 1873; Phoebe M., April 11, 1875, now Mrs. Solomon Shoop; Henry L., January 16, 1877; John S., October 19, 1879; George W., October 25, 1882; Nellie L., February 20, 1884, now Mrs. John Russell. Mr. Walters was first married to Mary A. Wortman, August 27, 1854. They had one child - Martha J., born September 28, 1855. She is now Mrs. John T. Sneath. The first wife died November 2, 1855.
---Mr. Walters came to Adair County with his parents in 1841, the same year the county was organized. There was only one house in Kirksville. The family drove through with an ox team, taking about eight weeks to make the trip. They settled in Morrow township, where Jack Megrew now lives. Mr. Walters lived at home till grown, then married and entered the land he now owns. He has lived and farmed on the same place all his life, except the time spent in the army, and two years, 1878 to 1880, in Montana. He owns a farm of 500 acres, one mile east of Stahl. He is a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, Percheron horses, and Poland-China hogs.
---Mr. Walters joined Company B., 39th Missouri Infantry, in 1864, and served till the close of the war. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Baptist Church.

Also see Missouri Death Certificate #32725 for more information including the following:
Full Name: Lewis Walters
Male, White, Married
Date of Birth: April 25, 1836
Birthplace: East Tennessee
Date of Death: November 5, 1915
Place of Death: Morrow township, Adair County, MO.
Cause of Death: Uremic Poison
Contributory: Prostatitis
Burial: McGrew Cemetery on Nov. 6, 1915
Name of Father: William Walters, b. Tenn.
Mother's Maiden Name: Jerusha Lay, b. E. Tenn.
Informant: Mrs. Nilli P. Megrent, Kirksville, MO.