Father: Frederick W. WATSON
Mother: Jane SCOTT
_John WATSON _+
_Abner WATSON _______|
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_Frederick W. WATSON _|
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Full name and date of birth is from the Watson Family Bible: "Frederick Wilson Watson was born Jan 7, 1851."
I have been unable to find this individual in the 1880 Census for Woodruff County. From Terrie Treadway, Watson Family researcher (email: 25 Aug 2004): |
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We know that Fred Wilson was with his parents, F.W and Jane in the 1870 census. But he was not in White County in the 1880 census. Checking on familysearch.org, I could not locate him in Arkansas doing a census search. He may have struck out on his own the same time Onslow did(after the death of F.W in 1878) as neither of them are in the 1880 Arkansas census. The key for migration of the Watson's I am confident is good cheap farmland. All the areas that the Watsons lived in are really good farmland places off of the White River. There is about 50 miles separating all three places where they lived.
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North Carolina F.W. Watson died Jan 11 1893 Heirs : O. W. Watson, W. P. Watson, H. L. P. Watson Administrator: O. W. Watson
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| Watson, F. W. Drawer 7, Folio 26, Roll 39 Fred W. Watson died 11 January 1893. On 2 July 1894, O. W. Watson appointed administrator. Wife: Mrs. Lula Watson. The physician's bill and bills for coffins indicate the Watsons died near the same time. Also in this file are some receipts, 1869-1872, for the estates of a J. C. Watson and a Carrel Watson, deceased, probably the same man. In 1869, the administrator was John L. Irwin. In 1872, the administrator was J. N. Bosley. |
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| Watson, Carrel Drawer 7, Folio 27, Roll 39 See also folio 30 below. On 30 January 1869, John L. Erwin , adminstrator of the estate of Carrel Watson, deceased, asked for an order to sell personal property. |
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| Watson, J. Carole Drawer 7, Folio 30, Roll 39 Died 28 December 1868. On 23 January 1869, John L. Irwin appointed. Heirs: Netty Ann and Jannetta (or Jannella) Watson. On 13 June 1871, Joseph N. Bosley appointed administrator-de-bonis-non. |
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This evidence that this Fred Watson listed above, is the son of F. W. Watson, is circumstantial. He could be a member of an unrelated Woodruff County, Watson family which there appears to been at least one in the county during this same period of time. Also, there is no information in the Watson Family Bible who his wife might be. However, the O. W. Watson who was appointed administrator could be Onslow Womack Watson, his brother and the son of the senior F. W. Watson. There is a listing for an O. W. Watson in the 1894 tax rolls for McCrory.
Diana Bradley has since found the following material (which had been submitted to the Rootsweb World Connect records) in response to the loose probate records above which I had come across: |
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| Name: Fred WATSON Sex: M Death: 11 JAN 1893 in AR Marriage: Lulu G.(Lou) DILLIN b: 2 JUN 1865 in Marengo, Iowa Co., IA Married: 29 DEC 1891 |
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| Name: Lulu G.(Lou) DILLIN Sex: F Birth: 2 JUN 1865 in Marengo, Iowa Co., IA Birth: 2 JUN 1865 in Union Twp., Knox Co., OH Death: 14 AUG 1892 in AR Death: in AR Note: Lived in AR in the middle 1940s.[?!] Born: 2 Jun 1865. Died: 14 Aug 1892. |
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From Terrie Treadway's email, 25 Aug 2004: |
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...The Lulu was Lula Dillin and her family was from Iowa. I looked on the rootsweb site and found info on her ancestry. A Peter Dillon is supposed to be her ancestor. Now that is interesting. ...There is a possible Wright-Dillon connection in Guilford County, NC connected through Dillons- Patricks and Wrights. The Guilford Dillions supposedly go back to the same Peter Dillion as the Iowa Dillions. ...E.A Wright's family was in Guilford County, too. Maybe some of those Wright and Dillion found each other in Arkansas. Just throwing a wild guess, but probably when visiting kinfolk, F.W. Jr. met Lula Dillin.
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From her follow-up email 26 Aug 2004: |
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As usual my supposin' gets me in trouble. The Dillion of IA and the Dillions of NC are probably two different lines. IA Dillons come from NJ-TN-OH-IA, Dillons of NC came from MD-PA-NC. Only one branch of the IA went to NC and they don't initially look to be close to Guilford. So don't know how our F.W Jr met Lula Dillin. I guess while avoiding the census man, he was "making hay while the sun shined". Evidently, after "sowing his wild oats" for a while, he came back to kinfolk. Larry, I still think that there may be a Wright connection back in NC. Did you check some of the Quaker meeting houses in Guilford for your Edward Wright? There were quite a few of the Wrights as well as other families that came from PA who were originally Quakers. The Quakers were good at record-keeping of births marriages, etc. But as they married outside the faith, they were kicked out of the church. Then they didn't care about writing their names down- lost track.
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In an article, "Post Office at McCrory, Arkansas", in Rivers and Roads and Points in Between, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Spring, 1980), pp. 2-6, it is indicated that a Fred Watson was the second postmaster for McCrory: that he was appointed July 16, 1889, and that the third appointment of postmaster was a reappointment of the first postmaster, Thomas Edwin Bonner, was on April 17, 1893. This would some what fit with our Fred Watson's death in January however, it is not known at this time if this is really him. From Terrie Treadway: |
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As to being the postmaster, Frederick Wilson son of F. W. maybe him... Frederick Wilson would have been 38. It also listed Billy Ray Cariker as a current rural carrier. That Cariker is grandson of W. P. [William Pinkney Watson]
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This page created on 07/07/02 14:32 . Updated 08/27/03 23:07.
