Father: Samuel ADAMS
Mother: Francis REID
Family 1 : William Pinkney WATSON
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| Henrietta Reid (Adams) Watson | ||
| In 1900
Census (Ed. 107 Sheet 12 Page 49A),
DeView Township, Woodruff
Co., dwelling 210, as Henrietta Watson, head of household, Jan 1848, a.
52, bp. NC (both parents' bp. NC) widower, married 9 years, gave birth to 9
children, 5 of which still survive, can read and write, rents farm #163
(occupation not listed). Children: Samuel F, b. Jan 1868, a. 32, bp. NC
(both parents' bp. NC), single, an employed farmer who can read and write, also
listed as renting farm #163; Benjamin, b. Dec 1880, a. 19, bp. AR (both
parents' bp. NC), single, an employed farm laborer who can read and write;
Lena, b. Nov 1881, a. 16, bp. AR (both parents' bp. NC), can read and
write; and Ora, b. Nov 1887, a. 12, bp. AR (both parents' bp. NC), can
read and write. Enumerated as Hennrieta R. Watson with her son, Samuel F. Watson in the 1910 Census for DeView Township. Living in dwelling #191. Her son, Benjamin Y. Watson, and his family listed living in dwelling #191 and the Henry J. Cariker family who is probably related in some way to one of her daughters is listed in dwelling #189. |
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| From the Arkansas Gazette, January 11, 1938 (copy from Terrie Treadway, a Watson/Reid family researcher): | ||
Sprightly Pioneer Woman Traveled 21 Days to Get to Arkansas from Carolina McCrory- Mrs. Henrietta Reid Watson will celebrate her ninetieth birthday, Monday January 17, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. M. Huff of McCrory, with whom she resides. She was born in Rockingham county NC in 1848. On January 25,1864 she was married near Reidsville, NC to William P. Watson, a soldier in the Civil war, and went to live with his people until the close of the war. Three years after her marriage, she came with her husband and baby to Arkansas. "Part of the way to Memphis we came on the train, and part on the river," she related. "It took us 21 days to make the trip from NC to AR. No railroad had been built between Memphis and Little Rock then, so at Memphis we took a boat. There was a big overflow, and after we left Memphis we didn't set foot on land until we reached Andrews Landing, in St. Francis County. "I had an uncle living two miles out in the bottoms from Andrews Landing, so we went out there and stayed until we got a place. We lived in St. Francis county several years, then moved to White county and stayed there 12 years before we come to Woodruff county and settled a McCrory about 50 years ago. There were only two business houses and few scattered residences in McCrory at that time. The railroad had just been completed through there." Father Owned Slaves Mrs. Watson, who is soft-voiced and pleasant-faced, is a diminutive person, less than five feet tall. She is a descendant of a family prominent in the early history of NC. Her uncle David S. Reid was governor of N.C. when she was a child, and she recalls that one of her brothers served as his private secretary. The city of Reidsville, with a population of about 6,000 is named for her grandfather who owned land where the city is located. Mrs. Watson's father owned land and slaves, and her brothers and sisters went to college. "But the war came along, and I didn't get to go to college," Mrs. Watson said. "And then when I was 16, I got married." "One of my childhood schoolmates was R. P. Richardson, whom we called "Bobby", and who later became one of the leading manufacturers of tobacco and snuff in the country." Mrs. Watson continued. "His family had plenty of money, and his lunch was always prepared by servants -- who were not very particular whether the food was just what Bobby liked or not. Usually, my lunch was better than his, so I divided with him." Mrs. Watson is unusually active for her age and takes a lively interest in affairs of the day. She belongs to the Methodist church and still attends it regularly. She reads the newspaper every day, and often reads magazines or books. The last motion picture she was at a Will Rogers picture shown in the Augusta soon after the actor's death, although, if there happened to be a picture that she especially wanted to see, she would go again. Occasionally she takes a 200-mile motor trip in one day, and then in the summer of 1936 she went to Texas on the train, and came back in an automobile which made the return trip in one day. Among her prize possessions are two old family Bibles. In the Bible which belonged to her husband's father, the oldest date recorded is the birth in 1762 of Abner Watson, Mrs. Huff's great-grandfather. The other Bible belonged to Mrs.Watson's parents, and the oldest date recorded in it is that of the birth of her father, Samuel Finney Adams, in 1807. Mrs. Watson's husband died in 1894. She has two daughters living, Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Lena Hartin of Arlington, TX. Her only living brother, Ruben Reid Adams, who lives in Benton, is 86 years old. She has 17 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren living. |
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From Terrie Treadway: |
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| Nettie Lee was the 2nd wife of Walter
Cariker. Her older sister Fannie Lee was his first wife. My grandmother
(Minnie) said the Fannie had died of swamp fever (malaria). Her father(Walter Cariker) also died of Malaria. Nettie Lee married a Walter Stevenson. She and their daughter Maggie died by the time my grandmother was three (ca 1903). I think she died either in childbirth or by malaria. Henrietta Reid Adams took in the children of Walter Cariker and her two daughters to raise. Ettie Cariker married a Wright and died in childbirth. Freda Gertrude died at 6-8 months old. Maynard, Walter Ray, and Minnie went to live with Henrietta and her youngest living daughter Ora Huff in McCrory, AR Woodruff Co. She first married Walter Cariker, son of Peter Jackson Cariker & Mary Jane Arnold, 29 Sep 1894 in McCrory, Woodruff Co, Ar. Born 17 Mar 1869. Died 29 Jan 1901 in McCroy, AR. Buried in MCCroy, AR. ...From audio taped interview of my grandmother Minnie Cariker Martin, Aug 1980: Minnie Martin speaking tells of grandmother living with Frederick W. Watson (father-in-law) during the Civil War. Toward the end of the war, the Northern soldiers were raiding and burning plantations at they moved into CSA territory. One day the Northern soldiers came on the Watson family home. Frederick W. gave Nettie R. a gold pocket watch and told her to hide it on her. "She said all she could hear was the beat, but she did know which was louder the watch or her heart." She slipped it into her bosom. Frederick W. went out on the porch to address the Yankee soldiers. He made the sign of the Masons. Luck was with the Watsons, because the captain of the Yankee soldiers on seeing the sign told his troops, "Don't harm anyone or take anything from inside this house. This is my brother Mason." F.W. had some fine horses. The Yankee captain told him they needed replacement horses, so they would leave their horses and take F.W.'s. And they did. F.W. was thankful that nothing else was taken, but sure did regret them taking his prize horses and leaving nags. |
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Listing in Cemetery Records of Woodruff County, Arkansas Volume II by Curtis A. Houston, for Odd Fellows Cemetery: South Half, p. 244: |
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| Watson, Henrietta Reid, b. Jan. 17, 1848, d. Sept. 8, 1941. | ||
| She is listed on the same marker as Samuel
Fred Watson, her son, and Etta Cariker Wright (b. Aug.
23, 1891 - d. Apr. 25, 1916). |
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| From Terrie Treadway (18 Jun 2003): | ||
| The picture that has the young family is of my grandparents, their children and the Watsons. From left to right: Boyce Martin Jr, William Daulton Martin (Bill), unidentified woman (I think is might be daughter of either Lena or Ora, either Beatrice Arnold or Jessamine Huff-just guessing), Aunt Lena, Grandma Watson, Aunt Ora, Minnie Cariker Martin, Betty Lou Martin, Boyce Martin Sr, and... Beverly Amarylis Martin. From the age of the children I would guess the picture would have been made around 1938. | ||
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