Margaret Louise WATERS^{[1, 2]}

1904 - 1954  (50 years)

• Name	Margaret Louise WATERS
  Birth	30 Mar 1904	New Bern, Craven Co, NC   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	1930	New Bern, NC   [3]
  	1930 New Bern, stenographer
  Death	28 Oct 1954	New Bern, Craven Co, NC   [1]
  	Margaret was found dead on 28 October 1954 in a bathtub at her home, 801 Broad Street in New Bern. Her death was ruled "suicide" by drowning. She was 50 years old.
  Burial	31 Oct 1954	Chadburn, Columbus Co, NC   [1]
  	Her body was interred at Chadburn Cemetery in Chadburn, North Carolina on 31 October 1954.
  Person ID	I60856	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Gilbert Stanley WATERS,   b. 6 Oct 1868, Beaufort Co, NC d. 15 Feb 1950, New Bern, Craven Co, NC (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Margaret Mae SCALES,   b. 26 Oct 1875, Raleigh, Wake Co, NC d. 19 May 1945, New Bern, Craven Co, NC (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1892	Raleigh, Wake Co, NC   [4]
  Notes	problem with birth dates for first two children
  Family ID	F2740	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(unknown) POWERS   d. Before 28 Oct 1954
  Marriage	After 7 Apr 1930  [3]
  	Margaret was listed as single in the 7 April enumeration of the 1930 census.
  Family ID	F6440	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		1910 US Census / Waters, Gilbert S. New Bern, North Carolina.
  		1920 US Census / Waters, Gilbert S. 131 Broad Street, New Bern, North Carolina.
  		1930 US Census / Waters, Gilbert S. 131 Broad Street, New Bern, North Carolina.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1744] Margaret Waters Powers, North Carolina death certificate no. 23062 (1954). [S3938] G.H. Waters will (1933), Beaufort Co, NC Will Book 5, pp. 369 - 370. [S1742] 1930 US Census / Waters, Gilbert S. [S3939] Jim and Esther Chauncy, abstractors, Chauncy & Chauncy,Abstracts of Marriages and Deaths of Extant Washington, NC Newspapers, Volume 2 1884 - 1904, ((Washington, NC: Beaufort County Genealogical Society, 1994)). Waters - Scales marriage, p. 20.