A biographical sketch of son Philip E. Waters was published in the 1887 "Kentucky: A History of the State":

   PHILIP E. WATERS, born in Oldham County, Ky., in November, 1860, is a son of Richard and Jane (Henshaw) Waters, natives respectively of Shelby and Oldham Counties.    His maternal grandfather, Philip Henshaw, came from Orange County, Va., in an early part of the present century, and settled where young Waters now resides, near Goshen, Oldham County, and his father, Richard Waters, who was born in 1825, is a leading business man of Louisville, and one of the largest land owners in Oldham County.    Philip E. has control of over 865 acres, and makes a specialty of buying live stock, for the Louisville market.    Mr. Waters was married October 1, 1886, to Miss Lucy Stovin, of Orange County, Va.    He is a free Mason.