Margaret Waters

Brief Life History of Margaret

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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Family Time Line

William Donaldson
1834–1895
Margaret Waters
1841–1896
Marriage: 15 March 1859
Marrietta Donaldson
1859–1940
William Henry Donaldson
1862–1931
James Richard Donaldson
1865–1937
Wayne D Donaldson
1867–1952
John Morgan Donaldson
1869–1936
Admiral Lacount Donaldson
1873–1955
Lemuel Donaldson
1876–1900

Sources (17)

  • Margaret Donaldson in household of Wm Donaldson, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Margarett Waters - Government record: birth-name: Margarett Waters
  • Georgia Marriages, Liberty Georgia

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1861

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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