This clipping was given to me over 10 years ago when found in an old bible by a family member. RELICS GIVEN TO SOCIETY IN CITY PRESENTED BY MISS MYRA ELIZABETH WATSON FROM DAVID W. CASE - FAMILY -------------------------------- Pioneer Settlers in Clayton Section of County - Bowl Hollowed from Cherry tree and Quilts Among Articles -------------------------------- Miss Myra Elizabeth Watson 620 North State street, Chicago, Ill, has recently sent to the Jefferson County Historical society many relics that have been in her family since David Warham Case and his wife came to the Clayton section of Jefferson county as pioneers. Among the curios sent by Miss Watson is a bowl hollowed out by hand from an underground knot of cherry tree. The size and shape of a modern mixing bowl, mark visible inside lead to the conclusion it was used for that purpose. Hand quilted by Lydia Barney Watson almost ten years before the Civil war while the 13 year old girl was living with her grandparents in Depauville, a quilt, pink basket pattern on a background of white and pink squares, still is fresh and unfaded. One of the pieces of hand weaving is a sheet of fine linen spun and woven more than 100 years ago by Mercy Lydia Clark Case, the pioneer wife of David Warham Case. A collection of daguerreotype and old pictures, with notation on each, together with an indexed family album almost serve as a history of the Case fmily line since the pioneer days in Jefferson county and the line of the Watson family. David Warham Case, often referred to as Warum Case, was born in Otis;Mass, Feb. 16,1788 as was Mercy Lydia Clark Case Sept. 26, 1791. They were married March 3l, 1809 and came as pioneers, to Jefferson county. The first of the Watson line represented in the collection is A Evans Watson, son of Oliver E. Watson of Oswego, born in 1845 and the picture bears the note that he was a descendant of Sir Lewis Watson who was born in 1584 and immigrated to America in 1650. He was the inventor of Smutt Purifier. Another inventor member of the family mentioned by Miss Watson was Orlando Case of Watertown, son of Warum Case. Dorothy Case Beasley descendant of John Case born 1591