This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Watson, Rosser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/33.1 Message Board Post: My name is Anne Cox. I am a decendant of William Henry Watson. I recently found that his mother was Mary Susan Shaw and his father was William Frank Watson who went by Frank in the 1880 Census when he was located in Cass County, Texas. It list their children as William, Ada, Lucy, Pinkney, Thomas E., and Lillie. In a 1900 Census it lists Frank and Susan as William and Mary, which are their first names and they lived next door to their son WIlliam Henry Watson and wife Minnie Lyda. They lived in Delta County, Texas in 1900 and up. It took me a year to figure out that Frank and William Frank Watson were the same person. I am currently working on the continueing ancestry of William Frank Watson and I believe that his father was John T.(or L) Watson born in 1823 in South Carolina. He lived in Rusk county, Texas near his father Dempsey. It looks like he was widowed when William Frank and his sister Martha were small. He may have remarried a young lady named Piety or Deaty Robert! s. From other Census records they had another son John and daughter Ara. Dempsey was born in North Carolina and lived in Georgia and Rusk County Texas. There are two possibilities for his father that come up. Lebon or Soloman Watson. I'm not sure who yet, but I am currently working on it. I myself, am not familiar with the Watsons. My great grandmother was Lula Watson(lucy misspelling on 1900 Census). My grandfather is still living and just remembers that when he went to her funeral that there were lots of Watsons he had never met. He doesn't know any of them. He said there was a huge Watson ranch in Delta County Texas, but I am barely on to who they may be. Lula married James R. Rosser. He was killed at the Railroad when my granfather was only 6 months old.