OLDEST NATIVE OF EBENSBURG IS DEAD
Mrs. Martha Tibbott Waters, Aged Ninety, Expires of General Debility
Was Married March 7, 1850
Ebensburg, March 7 – Mrs. Martha Tibbott Waters, relict of Edmund J. Waters, died yesterday morning at the Waters home in the East Ward, Ebensburg, In her ninety-first year. Her death was due to general debility. Mrs. Waters was one of the oldest natives 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 104 years ago, and the next oldest is Mrs. Mary Davis, who was born in Wales in 1815.
Martha Tibbott was born June 4, 1819, at Tibbot’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 Martha Tibbott were married in Ebensburg sixty years ago today. 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 will take place from the Waters home tomorrow afternoon, when the deceased’s pastor, The Rev. Henry Mahon, of the Christian Church, will conduct the obsequies, with interment in Lloyd Cemetery. Mrs. Waters was the oldest communicant identified with the Ebensburg Christian Church. |
