Source: A Contribution to The History and Genealogy of Colonial Families of Rockingham County, Virginia SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL, by J. Houston Harrison Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants, of the Family of HARRISON and Allied Lines Joseph K. Ruebush Company, Publishers Dayton, Virginia, 1935 Pages 605-606 Algernon Sidney watson, b. February 11, 1838, d. April 6, 1905, was a properous farmer and orchardist of Covesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. He was born at "Cove Lawn," where he resided, and was the son of Daniel Edward Watson, (d. 1882), and wife Mary Woods Harris, of "Cove Lawn," and the grandson of Wilkins Watson, of Amherst County, Virginia, and wife Polly, nee Tucker, of Lexington, Virginia. While a student at the University of Virginia, he resigned to enter the Confederate Army, and served throughout the war, eleven months as Stonewall Jackson's courier, and was with the latter at Chancellorsville. As a memento of his services on one occasion, the noted leader presented him with his own sword. Dr. Daniel Edward Watson was a widely practiced county physician of Covesville. His father, Wilkins Watson, was the son of Edward Watson, b. October 14, 1746, d. November 20, 1839, and wife Annie, nee Noble, b. June 14, 1746, d. April 12, 1812. Edward Watson and wife were married July 9, 1772, and had children --- William, b. August 25, 1773, Annie b. February 9, 1775, Alexander, b. December 9, 1776, d. June 7, 1815, John, b. December 6, 1778, Lucy, b. February 13, 1781, d. May 1809, Lilley, b. December 30, 1782, and Wilkins, b. September 13, 1785, m. 1st, December 12, 1809, Polly H. Tucker, b. August 17, 1794, d. August 20, 1838, m. 2nd, March 23, 1843, Elizabeth Ann Henley. Wilkins and Polly Watson had issue --- Daniel Edward, as above, b. October 30, 1810, m. 1st, May 15, 1834, Mary Woods Harris, b. 1811, d. July 23, 1871, m. 2nd, January 22, 1873, Martha Jane Hart; Alberta, b. April 1, 1813, d. November 19, 1813; William Henry, b. May 18, 1815, m. June 7, 1838, Susan C. Dunnington; Ann Eliza, b. July 28, 1817, d. December 25, 1859, m. May 31, 1836, James E. Horner; Judith H., b. December 6, 1819, m. October 19, 1841, Matthew F. Harris; John James, b. April 5, 1822, m. November 11, 1847, Louisa H. Williams; Mary Wikins, b. April 13, 1824, d. October 30, 1832; George Alexander b. December 31, 1827; Mariah Louisa, b. August 6, 1830, m. November 23, 1848, Lafayette Steptoe; and Lucy Jane, b. September 28, 1832. Wilkins and Elizabeth Watson had issue --- Wilkins, b. May 22, 1845, Edwin, b. May 2, 1847, and Lillie Virginia, b. December 31, 1848. Wilkins Watson d. October 4, 1856. (See Watson family Bible.) May Wood Harris, the wife of Dr. Daniel Edward Watson, was the daugher Henry Tate Harris,b. 1787, d. March 8, 1845, and wife Mary Woods Harris, b. August 24, 1788, m. April 16,,, 1811, d. March, 1874, the daughter of Capt. Benjamin Harris, b. January 30, 1754, d. March 25, 1834, and wife Mary Woods, b. February 20, 1767, m. September 27, 1785, d. August 15, 1844. Benjamin Harris served in the Revolutionary War, first as a private, then as a corporal, in the Virginia Continental Line, and from 1779 to 1782 was a Captain. He joined Lafayette's forces in 1781, and was at the seige of Yorktown. Capt. Harris was the son of William Harris, b. 1706, d. September 25, 1788, and wife Mary Netherland, b. 1719, d. May 20, 1799, and the grandson of Matthew Harris, b. 1687, d. 1727, and wife Elizabeth Lee, m. 1716, d. 1784. (D.A.R. Lineage--- National No. 235343) Dr. Daniel Edward Watson, and wife Mary's children were --- Mary W., b. April 5, 1835, d. March 29, 1873, m. 1st November 9, 1853, William M. Harris, m. 2nd Stephen Rodgers; Henrietta V., b. August 8, 1836, d. March 22, 1862, m. December 6, 1855, James N. Anderson; Algernon Sidney, as above, m. May 21, 1873, Mary Louise Wheeler, b. at Lynchburg, Virginia, (1856), dau. of John Vernon and Missouri (Pettijohn) Wheeler; and Ann Eliza, b. January 18, 1841, d. June 16, 1897, m. January 28, 1863, Dr. Hawes N. Coleman, d. July 21, 1877. (Watson family Bible.) A. Sidney Watson and wife Mary Louise had issue --- D. Edward, resident of Crozet, Virginia, m. Elizabeth Garnett, of Charlottesville; Pearl, m. Dr. Montie L. Rea, of Charlottesville; Robert A., b. October 29, 1877, resident of Charlottesville, (V. P. and Trust Officer, Peoples National Bank), m. Sadie R. Baggarly, of Rappahannock Co., Carrie Lee, m. Arthur V. Greenway, of New York City, native of England; Florence Ethel, m. Rev. George W. Taylor, of Va. Conference, M. E. Chruch, South; Sidney Dunnington, d. 1910, unmarried; Nellie Cleveland, m. M. Daunis McBryde, of Louisiana, now resident of Richmond, Virginia; Berta Steptoe, as above; and Frederick Lewis, ex-Mayor of Charlottesville, m. Mary Waddell, of Charlottesville, (See, History of Virginia, pub. by American Historical Society, Vol. IV, pp. 49, and 283.) Please make any responses through HH or H-COLONIALVA so that others may be helped. Ira L. Harris III Evansville, Indiana