Full name and date of birth is from the Watson Family Bible: "Benjamin Younger the 4th Son of Wm P. & Nettie R. Watson was born December the 29 A. D. 1880."

His death is listed as "Benjamin Younger Watson died July 10th, 1934."

Benjamin worked in a sawmill in Patterson making barrel staves according to Joe Holland, his nephew.

He is listed in the 1910 Census, DeView Township, Woodruff Co., AR (Ed. 68, sheet 137, page 194), as Ben Y. Watson, a. 29, bp. AR (both parents bp. NC), a farmer. Ennumerated with wife, Lena, a. 26 (married for 7 years), bp. AR (both parents bp. NC), and two daughters: Freddie J., a. 5, bp, AR and Ora, a. 1/12 bp. AR.

He is listed in the 1920 Census, Patterson (Ed. 55 sheet 242 page 2 line 91), Woodruff Co., AR, as Benjamin Y. Watson), a. 39 bp. Ark. (father, b. NC, mother b. NC), occupation: Night Watch Stave Mill. Enumerated with daughters, Buddie J., a. 15, Olive O., a. 11, and Katherine, a. 4, and sons, Benjamin H., a. 9, Herman H., a. 6 and William, a. 1.

It is assume that Freddie and Buddie are the same person as well as Ora and Olive (O. = Ora).

Listing in Cemetery Records of Woodruff County, Arkansas Volume II by Curtis A. Houston, for Fakes Cemetery, Unmarked Graves, p. 199:

Watson, Benjiman Younger, b. Dec. 29, 1880, d. July 10, 1923. Listed with wife and son.

From Terrie Treadway, Watson Family researcher (email 19 Jan 2003):

I just talked to my Mom, who remembers as a young girl (about 8 according to BYW's date of death) going with her Mom to see him -Uncle Ben-at Patterson when he was so sick. He died of what Mom called dropsy (congested heart failure-which runs a lot in the family). She said that two of his girls Freddie and Ora lived close by, because they spent one night with Ben and other with the daughter. Mom said Ora Howard (called her Ora Lee) moved to New Jersey. She recalled the name of Lee Francis Howard as her son and thinks the reason Ora Lee moved up to New Jersey was because of Lee Francis. He may be still living.

The Watson family photo which my family had and that I had reasoned could be Uncle Ben and Aunt Lena's family, was finally identified in March of 2003, by Iva Burnham, Benjamin's granddaughter, who had the same photo in her collection. Terrie Treadway had gotten in contact with her.

Benjamin is also mentioned in a 1915 letter by Etta Cariker Wright to her step-sister, 15 year old Minnie Delcemia Cariker. He was one of Minnie's favorite uncles.