U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Watson, William Scott (b. 1820) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 684-685 William Scott Watson was born April 11th, 1820, on what has always been known as the old Watson farm, and on which he with a large number of brothers and sisters were reared. He was a soldier of the late Civil War, a member of Company K, Third Maryland Regiment. He enlisted in the spring of 1863, and was mustered out on May 27, 1865. On December 12th, 1844, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia McKinney. To this union were born two children, Edwin M. Watson, born June 14th, 1846, and Joseph S. Watson, born March 29th, 1848. Death visited this home first on April 19th, 1849, taking the wife and mother of the above named children. Mr. Watson remained a widower until 1853 when on July 18, of that year he was again united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Huggins, youngest daughter of John and Mary Huggins. She was born July, 1835, and died March 15, 1891. To this union nine children were born as follows: Terresa Ellen, born May 7, 1854, married to Thomas B. Riley of Tunnelton, W. Va.; William A. Watson, born February 4th, 1856, married to Nancy Jane Sinclair, daughter of Robert and Jane Sinclair, of Sinclair, W. Va. Their children are Dr. Elmer E. Watson, of Albright, W. Va,, Ernest W. Watson, Ass't. Cashier of the Tunnelton Bank, Tunnelton, W. Va., Alonzo Bedford, who died at the age of three and one-half years. Sinclair Watson died in infancy. Ila Grace, wife of Dr. W. W. Bucklew, of Fellowsville, W. Va., and William J., associated with his father in the mercantile business at Tunnelton, W. Va; Clarissa Ione, born March 22nd, 1858, wife of George H. Rodeheaver, of near Lenox, W. Va.; Mary Anne, married (first husband), Daniel Miller (second husband), _____. She was born July 7, 1860. Harriet Melissa, born July 30th, 1862, wife of Ira Travis, of Buckhannon, W. Va. Julietta, born December 16th, 1865, died May 28th, 1872. Ulysses Grant, was born March 29, 1868, married Priscilla Herring of near Herring, W. Va., and a half sister of Geo. A. Herring, of Kingwood, W. Va. David E. Watson, born September 27th, 1870; James Schnoble, born July 2nd, 1872, died March 3rd, 1910, from injuries received from being struck with a fast train and knocked from the Benwood bridge near Wheeling, W. Va. He was hurled a distance of about fifty feet to the ground, sustaining a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken at once to the City Hospital at Wheeling, and all the medical aid possible summoned, but his injuries were considered fatal from the beginning and he died in a few days, being unconscious most all of the time. He had been in the employ of the B. & O. R. R. Co., for a number of years and had worked himself up to a good position, being foreman of a carpenter crew. While yet a very young man, he had been given charge of some very difficult jobs in which he at all times proved himself equal to the task. He was held in high esteem not only by the officials of the Baltimore & Ohio Company, but by every man that worked under him, the latter coming in a body from Wheeling to Masontown, to attend his funeral. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------