When Margaret Waters was born on 12 December 1841, in Bulloch, Georgia, United States, her father, Amos V. Waters, was 29 and her mother, Mary Mollie Waters, was 27. She married William Donaldson on 15 March 1859, in Bulloch, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 45, Bulloch, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 10 August 1896, in Bulloch, Georgia, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Statesboro, Bulloch, Georgia, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin , Hiskey ).
History: James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
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