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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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