Richard Price WATSON

ABOUT 1792 - 11 Feb 1860

Father: Abner WATSON
Mother: Mary PRICE
Family 1 : Eliza COOKE, ABOUT 1792 in Cumberland Co., VA; ABOUT 1818, Cumberland Co., VA

  1.  Emaline C. WATSON, b. ABOUT 1815, Virgina; m1. Michael L. Woods, b. ABOUT 1808, Tennessee; m2. 30 Oct 1830, Prince Edward Co., VA, Willis W. PENICK, d. ABOUT 1840.
  2.  Susan Sandifer WATSON, b. 17 Apr 1818, Cumberland Co.?, VA; d. 22 Jan 1879, Mississippi; m1. 02 Jul 1834, Perry Co., AL, Willis NALL; m2. 13 Feb 1840, Dallas Co., AL, William ANTHONY, b. BEFORE December 1843, Perry Co., AL; m3. ABOUT 1845, Yazoo Co., MS, Allen E. KNOTT, d. Yazoo Co.?, MS

Family 2 : Elizabeth "Betsey" McGEHEE, b. ABOUT 1798, Nottoway Co., VA; d. July 1877, Prince Edward Co., VA

  1.  Elizabeth William WATSON, b. ABOUT 1820, Prince Edward Co., VA; d. AFTER 1831, Prince Edward Co., VA.
  2.  Nancy Motley WATSON, b. AFTER 1831, Prince Edward Co., TX
  3.  Benjamin William Frederick John Abner Joseph WATSON, b. 09 Jun 1828, Prince Edward Co., VA; d. 16 Sep 1872, Ellis Co., TX; m1. 15 May 1850, Harrison Co., TX, Mary E. SCOTT, b. ABOUT 1835, MS; d. BEFORE February 1854, Harrison Co., VA; m2. 27 Feb 1854, Harrison Co., TX, Margaret R. OVERSTREET, b. 28 Jul 1835, Alabama; d. 22 May 1870 in Ellis Co., TX

Family 3 : Mary CAMP


                                      _Benjamin WATSON   _
                       _John WATSON _|
                      |              |_Agnes ALLEN________
 _Abner WATSON _______|
|                     |               _______________
|                     |_Hannah ALLEN_|
|                                    |_______________
|
|--Richard Price WATSON 
|
|                                          _______________
|                       Richard PRICE     |
|                     |                   |_______________
|_Mary PRICE         _|
                      |                     _______________
                      | Mary DEJARNETTE    |
                                           |_______________

Notes:

Initial listing from Terrie Treadway.
Additional material from Dorothy Hankins.

From Dorothy Hankins (9 Jan 2004 email):
  Two days ago at the Library of Virginia I finally came upon the answer to Richard P. & Elizabeth Watson's divorce that I had been seeking for a number of years. The divorce was indeed granted! A letter in the Virginia Historical Society written by the wife of a Mississippi descendant of Richard P. Watson & 1st wife Eliza Cooke (looking into the Virginia Watsons in the 1930s) states that the divorce was never finalized. My thoughts on the divorce wavered between "it was and it wasn't" granted, although I leaned toward believing that it was. I thought that there should have been some finalization with Elizabeth McGehee Watson's petition papers I had seen in the Archives earlier...but there was nothing in them to indicate the outcome, so I was left wondering. R.P. was called a scoundrel by some of his neighbors in Prince Edward. To me, he was colorful enough to be the central figure in an early American novel, with a few characteristics like his grandmother Mary DeJarnette. But not so colorful as the bigamist some had thought. He married Mary Camp of Davidson County, TN, August 27, 1839.
Richard P. Watson was the eldest child of Mary "Polley" Price and Abner Watson of Cumberland and Prince Edward counties, VA; later of Rockingham County, NC. It is such a pleasure bringing together the loose ends of genealogical puzzles!
  

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