Dead end with my Walters genealogy

Question

No info (other than names) of g-g-grandfather, John A. Walters (killed in nitroglycerine explosion). Lived in Butler PA around 1880. Son: Perry Dana Walters (my great-grandfather, also killed in explosion in 1927).

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Hi Kristina, we would need a little more information to help out. Do you have a profile started for him? Providing a link to that would be good. 

It would be helpful to have a birth date, was he married? Names of children etc. Where was he living at time of death, where was the explosion? 

I did a search for the explosion but not totally sure if this is the one you meant? Could not find his name associated with it. 

 https://butlerhistorical.org/items/show/41

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Here is an article about that explosion that says a third man may have been in the truck but he is not named. There are some people on the injured list by the name of Walter/Walters. Is this your family?

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11676224/lick-hill-nitro-explosion/

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Perry Dana Walters was born Jan 9 1881 in Prospect Penn., he died Oct 14 1927 in Shelby Montana.  His father John A Walters and his mother Mary Elizabeth Roberts 

Death Certificate for Perry Dana Walters

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Looks like Perry married Ollie D. Kirk  Looks like this was a 2nd marriage.  First one was to Catherine Stanton in 1898, which was over by 1900.  He is listed as divorced in the 1900 census.

wedding announcement

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Here is the 1870 census for John A. Walters and his wife Elizabeth Roberts. 

1870 Census

1880 Census

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Perry Dana Walters died in an explosion in Shelby Montana and we have the actual newspaper with this as the headline “six hundred and eighty courts of nitro blows up - Walters killed.” The date of this article was Friday oct 14, 1927.

Answer 1

newspapers.com has an obituary for his wife which adds some information about the family, but does not mention her former husband - The News-Herald of Franklin, Pennsylvania - 26 Nov 1926, page 10 - Mary Elizabeth Walters died in Los Angeles hospital, born in Venango county, June 27, 1847.  Lived with daughter Nellie Zahniser of Huntington Park, California.  Dana Walters of Shelby, Montana another survivor, among others

Answer 2

Perry Dana Walters  has a findagrave ID 132490325

Answer 3

Best way to do this is to start a profile.  I took the liberty of starting one here:

Walters-9605