page_title: William Thompson Walters
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: William Thompson Walters / Career / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Gravestone of w:William Thompson Walters, w:Ellen Harper Walters, w:Henry Walters, w:William Thompson Walters, Jr., w:Betsey Anthony, and w:Harriette M. Clark.
context_page_description: William Thompson Walters was an American businessman and art collector, whose collection formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum.
context_section_description: In 1846, Walters married Ellen Harper (1822–1862), daughter of a prosperous Philadelphia merchant and his wife. Together, they were the parents of two children that survived to adulthood, a son and daughter: 
  Henry Walters (1848–1931), who married Sarah Wharton Green (1859–1943), the widow of Pembroke Jones, in 1922.
  Jennie Walters (1853–1922), who married Warren Delano (1852–1920), a son of Warren Delano Jr. and a brother of Frederic Adrian Delano and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, in 1876.
  Ellen died young of pneumonia, contracted when they were traveling in England, in 1862.  Walters lived another thirty-two years until his death on November 22, 1894 at his home, Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore.  He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery, also in Baltimore.
caption: Gravestone detail
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