Walter Sillers Sr. (March 2, 1852 – January 3, 1931) was an American lawyer, politician, businessman, and planter in Mississippi.
[4][5] Sillers ran multiple cotton plantations, labored by African-American tenant workers after Emancipation, that he had inherited from his family.
[4] As a cotton planter, he played a prominent role in the economic and agricultural culture of the Delta region.
He advocated for crop control policies via the development of planter's cooperatives throughout the Southern United States.
[7] He advocated for Congressional approval for the separation of flood control from the provisions of the Rivers and Harbors Act.
In 1884 he moved to Rosedale from Beulah after the death of his first wife and infant son, Walter, shortly after the boy was born.