Hi Carolyn, I've been distracted from research for awhile but I can always get pulled back into the WATERS. Yes, you nailed it, Elizabeth Almira WATERS (1831-1893) was daughter of John McIntire WATERS (1801-1891) and Margaret BRIGGS (1805-1872). From "The Waters Family" article by S.D. Campbell: John McIntire Waters, second child of Samuel Waters, was married in 1825 to Margaret Briggs, son [sic] of Benjamin. He was born on the 4th of July, 1801, in the old William Smith house where he first went to housekeeping the year he was married. He afterwards lived in Mifflin county, then came back to Tell, then to the farm of Gen. A.P. Wilson, (afterward owned by Valentine Schmittle), then moved to Black Log Valley where he lived in what the boys all remember as the ‘rain-splltter’ house, build by Hugh Logan. He also resided for a time in the old log house at the south end of Shade Gap where Billy Frick, the shoemaker, once lived. Their children were: Samuel H., Margaret Jane, Elizabeth, Martha, David, Arabella, Caroline and Rosella. Mount Union Times newspaper Huntingdon Co., PA 22 March 1907 [transcribed from microfilm borrowed from Pennsylvania State Library (interlibrary loan) 7 June 2001 by K. Doyle] This is Mike Gifford's line and he probably has much more information about them than I. William Simpson McMATH (1831-1899) was indeed the son of John McMATH (1787-1880) and Catherine WHITE (1801-1864). I found a book of the family on Heritage Quest: “Memorials of the McMath family: including a genealogical account of the descendants of Archibald McMath, who was born in Scotland about the year 1700,” John Mortimer McMath, Detroit: Speaker Print. Co., 1898-1937, 570 pgs., heritagequest.com. I noted a couple more of your recent posts and think I have more for you. Later, Kathryn _ Kathryn Doyle check out my new blog for the California Genealogical Society http://calgensoc.blogspot.com/ ----- Original Message ---- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:17:37 -0500 From: "Shearer" <cks@pa.net> Subject: [PAHUNTIN] McMath -Waters William McMath married Elizabeth Waters, 24 Apr 1856, Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church, Fannett Twp, Franklin Co, PA. Can not find them or their parents in Franklin County. Was William the son of John and Catherine McMath of Tell Twp, Huntingdon Co? There is a Watters family in Tell Twp in 1850 with a daughter Elizabeth age 18. They are listed on pg 258, just 2 pages from the McMaths. The name appears to be Marentine Watters, age 48, wife wife Margaret. Is this the right Waters family?