Hi, I wonder if you might have any info on a Benjamin Watson living in Barbour County in 1838, who sold land there in Irwinton (now Eufaula) to my ancestor Larkin Armstrong and a John C. Brazell 1/2/1838. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: MANDOL1@aol.com <MANDOL1@aol.com> To: ALCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com <ALCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:35 AM Subject: [ALCOFFEE] WATSONS >I am still looking for my WATSONS in Coffee, Dale, and Geneva counties. >GGG-grandfather, BRIGHT WATSON disappears from census 1860 (Newton, Dale Co) >but no burial place, death date, or further records. His daughters, >Louise/Louisa and Frances K (or middle initial "R").....no further record >after 1850 & 1860. 1850 Frances K ("R"....perhaps Rebecca?) is age 17 and >living in household with her parents, Bright and Mary Watson. 1860 >Louise/Louisa Watson lives with her "widowed" mother Mary Watson in Newton, >Dale Co, and is age 14....born GA 1846-47. Does anyone have information on >who Frances and Louise/Louisa married? Was Bright Watson a brother (or son) >to Reddick Watson? > >In 1860 Bright Watson's widow, Mary, lived in Newton next to Bright Byrd and >Esther Matthews.....2nd wife of Bright BYRD. 1870 Mary Watson lived next to >her daughter Mary and Jefferson Meyers in Rocky Head near Ariton. 1880 Mary >Watson lived in Clintonville with son Joseph Howell Watson and in 1888 >apparently lived with son Isaac A. Watson near Slocomb, Geneva Co AL. Mary is >buried at Pilgrim Rest Cem in Houston Co west of Dothan. Mary Watkins Watson >- 1808- 1888. >