Craig - I am researching a WATSON (David Watson born 1797 and his brother Greenberry Watson)line that came out of North Carolina and settled in Madrid Bend, Fulton, KY. I don't think our lines are related and I don't have any info on the names you showed, but who knows? Fred At 01:59 AM 1/23/00 , Craig Beeman wrote: >"Hello again Cousins!" > >Am finally to the point that I'm willing to stick my next out and >state that James WATSON's wife was indeed far more likely being >Jean CRAIG, sibling in "Our CRAIG Family," than Jean HOUSTON. > > > Name: James WATSON Sex: M > Birth: 1738 Place: ,Franklin,PA > Chr: Place: > Marr: Spouse: Jean CRAIG-1512 > Marr: Spouse: > Marr: Spouse: > Death: 5 Dec 1802 Place: ,York,SC >Burial: Place: ,York,SC > >Father: David WATSON-64181 Mother: Hannah-64628 >Notes---------------------------------------------------------------- >Of York Co., SC. Died in his 64th year. Buried Beerseba Cemetery. > > > >My primary reasons for so believing are not founded solely on the >applications of four ladies who joined the D. A. R. between 1900 and >1950, stating that relatives had Bible records indicating that she was >Jean CRAIG. > >1. Samuel CRAIG was a signatory to the estate of Gilbert WATSON. > >2. WATSON families went to the same area of western KY (Calloway, >Graves, Livingston, etc.) that "Our CRAIG Family's" Margaret (CRAIG) >WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants were to go, and if not at >the exact same time, not far removed from same. > >3. Gilbert WATSON went to Madison Co., IL, by 1820, at likely the same >time as did Robert CRAIG, brother of my family's John CRAIG. > >4. WATSON family descendants went to Pike Co., MO, by 1816, at likely >the same time as did John BRYSON, husband of Elizabeth CRAIG, sister >of my family's John CRAIG. > >5. Some of Margaret (CRAIG) WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants >would also go to Pike Co., MO, at a later date, and intermarry with WATSON >family descendants. > >6. Have come across but a single researcher who backs the Jean HOUSTON >attribution of the Joe HART Genealogical Collection, and she has stated that >she has not tried to follow up on the Rowan Co., NC, estate to verify Joe >HART's >attribution. > >7. Have yet to come across a single WATSON family researcher of the Rowan >Co., NC, WATSON families who claims that James WATSON of York Dist., SC, >was ever in Rowan Co., or knows of any Rowan Co., NC, WATSON family in that >time frame who was to go to York Dist., SC. > >8. Have yet to come across a single HOUSTON / HUSTON family researcher >who knows anything substantive of this, and only one to date that had even >heard of this "controversy". > >9. In so far as naming patterns for descendant families, I am not aware of >any first or second born descendant, whose birth order and middle name >having been HUSTON or HOUSTON, would best suggest that Jean, wife of >James WATSON, was a HOUSTON. To this end, I contend that it might be >just as easy to build a case for either Hannah, wife of David WATSON, to >have been Hannah HOUSTON, or for (Martha?), likely mother of "Our CRAIG >Family" to have been a Martha HOUSTON. > >Item: James Houston WATSON, b 1792, was either the second or third >known child born to David WATSON and Mary McCORD. Might Mary >McCORD have been a HOUSTON family descendant? > >Item: Levina Houston WATSON, b 1799, was second known child born to >John WATSON and Margaret BYERS, but logic would suggest to me that >if she were being named for her grandmother, she would have likely been >named Jean Houston WATSON. Might Margaret BYERS have been a >HOUSTON descendant? > >Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1810, was the fifth known child born >to Robert HEMPHILL and Ann WATSON. > >Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1830, was the third known child of >Alexander HEMPHILL and Margaret WILSON. > >10. As the researcher who volunteered to go to the Rowan County, NC, >court house and try to locate a probate packet for Mary (MORRISON) >HOUSTON, failed to find one, I really don't know whether none exists, >or whether only that he failed to locate same. > > > >To this end, I am now prepared to: > >1. Try to obtain photocopies of any and all documentation for all four D. >A. R. >applications stating that she was Jean CRAIG. > >2. Try to make contact the D. A. R. chapters where those ladies' applications >were processed to see if the local D. A. R. chapter might possibly have >something >in their chapter libraries to help provide clarity to this situation. > > >Please shoot me down, if you have come across anything, or might know of >anyone who has provided a single shred of evidence contributing to the >possibility that she was Jean HOUSTON, other than the assertion of the Joe >HART Genealogical Collection, and the previously mentioned occurrences >of Huston or Houston as a middle name. > >Still keeping my fingers crossed that someone, a far better family researcher >than I, might have discovered something far more substantive than the case >that I've laid out above. If I were fortunate enough to know as much about >WATSON and HOUSTON families, as I know about CRAIG family, perhaps >there could be an even better case built for Jean being Jean CRAIG, or Jean >HOUSTON, but for now, my money is on James WATSON's wife being Jean >CRAIG, sister to the other siblings in "Our CRAIG Family!" > >Will go to the corner of the room and hide should any of you be able to shoot >down every single point that I've laid out above! <G> > >TTYL > >Craig > >"Always looking for Cousins!" > > >==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== >Have questions about the Jackson Purchase? Visit the Jackson Purchase FAQ >site at: >http://users.arn.net/~billco/jacksonfaq1.html