OBIT:  WATERS, Margaret Tibbott; 1910; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 11 Mar 1910
Volume 44, Number 10


Mrs. Waters Dead 

Margaret Tibbott Waters, relict of Edmund J. Waters, died Sunday morning at the Waters home in 
the East ward in her ninety-first year.  Her death was due to general debility.  Mrs. Walters (sic) was 
the oldest native of Ebensburg and was the third oldest person living at the county seat.  The oldest 
resident is the venerable James Gallagher who was born in Ireland 105 years ago and the next oldest 
is Mrs. Mary Davis, who was born in Wales in 1814.

Margaret Tibbott was born June 4, 1819 at Tibbott's Mill in Cambria Township and was a daughter of 
Jabez and Eleanor Reese Tibbott, the latter being the first white child born in the vicinity of 
Ebensburg.  This was in 1797.  Edmund J. Waters and Margaret Tibbott were married at Ebensburg 
sixty years ago.  Mr. Waters was a Justice of the Peace for forty years and expired at Ebensburg on 
December 11, 1878.  Mrs. Waters is survived by a son and two daughters:  A. J. Waters, a Justice of 
the Peace of Ebensburg and Mrs. Margaret Kruis, both at home and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Emeigh of 
Wilmore.

The funeral took place from the Waters home Tuesday afternoon when the deceased's pastor, the 
Rev. Mahon of the Christian Church, conducted the obsequies with interment in Lloyd cemetery.  Mrs. 
Waters was the oldest communicant identified with the Ebensburg Christian Church.