This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WATSON, HEARN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CdB.2ACE/213.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your post on my Watson family and your work searching for wills... I am pretty certain that all my SC Watsons would have been found in Sumter (and later Lee) County; they all came from Johnston NC in the very early 1800s, and they probably departed to TN in around 1827 on their way to TX (they never made it, and some returned to GA) I found some of the Watson wills in my brief visit to the Sumter Co. Courthouse this last August, but none that I was really pursuing... the ones I most need are for Obediah Watson (ca. 1765 - ??), Thomas Watson (ca. 1790-1829), and Dempsey Watson (ca. 1794 - ??). It is likely that Obediah and Thomas actually died in Tennessee somtime 1829-1835. Because of my unfamiliarity with the courthouse scene, however, I am not certain that I found everything will-wise or death record-wise that could be there in Sumter..