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Kay Cunningham

 

The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 20
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 14, 1904

DEATH OF MAJOR WATERS.

     When news reached the city Tuesday about noon that Major P. B. Waters had passed away at his near town, our citizens were terribly shocked, although the end had been looked for several weeks.
     Deceased was taken ill about four months since and from the first he seemed to realize that. his and was near although his friends were hopeful of his recovery.  For a time he seemed to rally and was able to make the trip to Lampassas where it was thought the change might prove beneficial, but in this they were mistaken and he was brought Monday evening. 
     In the death of Major Waters the town of Rosebud and surrounding country loses an enterprising and progressive citizen, me who was always ready with his time and means to advance the interests of the community in which he lived.  Of high and noble character, honest to a fault, and always ready to do an act of kindness where deserved.
     Deceased was a Mason and also Past Chancellor of Sam Read Lodge Knights of Pythias and was buried in Woodland cemetery yesterday about noon with Masonic and Pythian honors, the assemblage of friends and acquaintances being the largest ever witnessed here. 
     He leaves two brothers and two sisters, - Mrs. E. W. Bragg and Miss Sallie Waters of Montgomery. Ala., Col. Dick Waters of Amarillo and Capt. Jack Waters of this city, to mourn his loss, besides a large number of true friends, and the News joins in extending condolence to the bereaved family. - Rosebud News.

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