Some of the Ancestors of
Cora Estelle (Howett) Martin
(1882-1970)
Watson Line

GABRIEL WATSON married MARGARET BURNS.

The only information I have on this couple is their identification as the parents of Oliver Watson in the Herr genealogy.[1]

Gabriel Watson and his wife Margaret Burns had the following child, perhaps others:

  1. OLIVER WATSON b. at Pennsylvania on 30 July 1802.

OLIVER WATSON (Gabriel) was born at Pennsylvania on 30 July 1802 a son of Gabriel Watson and his wife Margaret Burns.[2] He died at Lower Chancelford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, on 1 June 1865.[3] He married on 16 June 1825 MARY B. (BARR) HARSH.[4] She was born at Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 30 July 1803, a daughter of Jacob Barr and his first wife Anna Bowman.[5] She died at Eden Township, Lancaster County, on 24 November 1882.[6] Mary had previously married on 1819 JOHN HARSH, who was born on 1792 and died on 1823.[7]

Mary Barr, the fifth of thirteen children, married at the age of sixteen. She and her first husband, John Harsh, had two children, each of whom lived only one day. John died after four years of marriage, leaving Mary a widow aged nineteen or twenty. Two years later she married Oliver Watson. Together they had twelve children, only six of whom lived to adulthood.

The 1830 Census reported the Oliver Watson family at Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, consisting of a man and a woman in their 20s and two girls uder 5.[8] This agrees with the information we have on the family from other sources: Oliver, 28, Mary, 27, Anna, 3, and Mary, 1.

The 1840 Census also reported the family in Lampeter Township. It listed age and sex categories as follows, with the possible identifications:[9]

age/sex category possible identity
male 30-39 Oliver, 37
female 30-39 Mary, 36
male 15-19 unidentified
male 5-9 Jacob, 9
female 5-9 Susan, 6
female 0-4 Fances, 4
female 0-4 Mary, 2
female 0-4 Martha, 5 months

The unidentified teenage male could have been a farm hand. Daughter Anna, 13, could have been working out or staying with another relative. George had died at three months, the first Mary at three years, John at five years, Elam at eleven months.

The 1850 Census reported the family at Bart Township as follows:[10]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Birthplace Other
26. Oliver Watson 53 M farmer PA
27. Mary Watson 46 F PA
28. Jacob Watson 19 M laborer PA school
29. Susan Watson 16 F PA school
30. Francis Watson 14 F PA school
31. Mary Watson 12 F PA school
32. Margaret Watson 8 F PA school
33. James Morican 12 M PA

Eldest daughter Anna had married in 1836. The Oliver Watson family was listed in the census immediately after the George Howett family. This is significant, as Jacob Watson would marry Hannah Howett later in that census year, and Frances Watson would marry Skipwith Howett three years later. A brother and sister married a sister and brother. Emanuel had been born and died in 1844. Martha was not reported, as she died on the census day, 1 June 1850.

In the following decade most of the family dispersed. Jacob married in 1850, and had moved to Illinois by 1858; Frances married in 1853, Susan in 1854. The much smaller family was reported in Eden Township (Quarryville Post Office) in 1860.[11] They may not have moved, as Eden Township had been formed out of Bart Township in 1855.

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
11. Oliver Watson 57 M lime burner PA
12. Mary Watson 56 F housewife $450 PA
13. Mary Watson 23 F seamstress PA
14. Margaret Watson 18 F common school teacher PA

Margaret married in December of that census year. Oliver Watson died by drowning at McCall's Ferry in 1865.[12]

The 1880 Census reported Mary Watson, 76, keeping house, at Eden Township, with her daughter, Mary Watson, 44, at home, and two granddaughters, Anna M. Watson, 14, and Mary Elizabeth Watson, 10.[13] I cannot identify the granddaughters. Mary died in 1882.

Mary Barr and her first husband John Harsh had the following children:[14]

  1. SOPHIA HARSH b. at Lancaster County on 18 December 1820; d. there on 19 December 1820.
  2. ANN ELIZABETH HARSH b. at Lancaster County on 20 March 1822; d. there on 21 March 1822.

Oliver Watson and his wife Mary Barr had the following children:

  1. ANNA T. WATSON b. at Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, on 12 December 1826 ; d. on 18 October 1898; m. on 1 December 1846 HENRY FRAELICH, b. at Pennsylvania on 8 January 1824, d. on 9 August 1864.[15] Children of Anna and Henry:
    1. Susan Fraelich b. at Pennsylvania on 17 January 1848, d. at Strasburg Township on 19 December 1925; m. about 1867-8 George Aument b. at Pennsylvania on September 1845. Child of Susan and George:[16]
      1. Anna Aument b. at Pennsylvania on March 1870.
    2. Elizabeth Fraelich b. at Pennylvania on 8 March 1849, d. at West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, on 29 August 1918; m. Josiah Zittle b. on 2 August 1842, d. on 29 July 1925.[17]
    3. John Fraelich b. at Pennsylvania about 1850-1. d, at Conewango Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 25 February 1933; m. Rebecca ________.[18]
    4. Amos Fraelich b. at Pennsylvania about 1851-2.[19]
    5. Mary A. Fraelich b. at West Lampeter Township on 24 February 1856, d. there on 15 March 1934; m/ Benjamin F. Harnish.[20]
    6. Levi Fraelich b. at Pennsylvania about March 1860.[21]
  2. GEORGE WASHINGTON WATSON b. at Strasburg Township on 15 February 1828; d. there on 11 May 1828.[22]
  3. MARY E. WATSON b. at Strasburg Township on 2 May 1829; d. there on 19 November 1832.[23]
  4. JACOB B. WATSON b. at Strasburg Township on 13 April 1831; d. on 11 May 1903; m. on 24 October 1850 HANNAH A. HOWETT, b. at Maryland on 13 February 1823, d. on 10 October 1872, child of George Howett and Hannah Brown.[24] Children of Jacob and Hannah:[25]
    1. Hannah Mary Watson b. at Pennsylvania on 31 August 1841, d. on 9 December 1933; m. at Bourbon County, Kansas, on 30 July 1871 Luther Abraham Sprague b. at Macon County, Illinois on 19 April 1843, d. at Huntley, Harlan County, Kansas, on 7 October 1897.
    2. Emma ann Watson b. at Pennsylvania on 8 November 1854.
    3. Elias G. Watson b. at Pennsylvania on 28 July 1855
    4. Thadius Herr Watson b. at Pennsylvania on 17 Frebruary, 1856, d. at Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, on 28 March 1932.
    5. Jacob King Watson b. at Illinois on 13 September 1858.
    6. John B. Watson b. at Illinois on 18 July 1860, d. at Neosho, Newton County, Missouri, on 14 October 1838.
    7. George Oliver Watson b. at Illinois on 27 September 1862.
    8. Elmer Rice Watson b. on 25 June 1864, d. on 30 August 1864.
    9. Miriam Howett Watson b. on 17 October 1866, d. on 30 December 1867.
    10. Jesse Watson b. at Illinois about 1868-9.
  5. JOHN A. WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 21 July 1832; d. there on 12 January 1838.[26]
  6. SUSAN M. WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 8 February 1834; d. there on 22 November 1866; m. on 23 February 1854 JACOB HELM, b. at Pennsylvania on 28 March 1833, d. at Strasburg Township on 17 March 1916, child of Jacob Helm and Elizabeth Blainey. Jacob m(2). BARBARA WEINER b. at Pennsylvania about 1835-6.[27] Children of Susan and Jacob:
    1. John Martin Helm b. at Lancaster County on 16 November 1854, d. at Strasburg, Lancaster County, on 20 January 1924; m. Sarah Hillis.[28]
    2. William E. Helm b. at Lancaster County on 7 July 1856, d. at Middletown, Dauphin County, on 23 April 1924.[29]
    3. Irene Helm b. at Pernnsylvania about February 1860.[30]
    4. Mary E. Helm b. at Lancaster County on 21 June 1862, d. at Lancaster, Lancaster County, on 23 November 1927; m. William Walker.[31]
    5. Milton Oliver Helm b. at Pennsylvania on 21 June 1864, d. at Leacock Township, Lancaster County, on 27 April 1909.[32]
    6. Walter B. Helm b. at Lancaster County on 6 April 1866, d. at West Lampeter Township on 8 March 1937; m. Mary C. Pflaumer.[33]
  7. FRANCES H. WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 7 November 1835.
  8. MARY L. WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 23 June 1837; living in 1880.[34]
  9. ELAM WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 12 October 1838; d. there on 9 September 1839.[35]
  10. MARTHA WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 5 December 1839; d. there on 1 June 1850.[36]
  11. MARGARET WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 22 August 1842; d. at Lancaster on 19 April 1918; m. on 20 December 1860 THOMAS EAGER, b. on 22 June 1827, d. on 28 September 1895.[37]
  12. EMANUEL WATSON b. at Lancaster County on 19 May 1844; d. there on 22 June 1844.[38]

NOTES

1Theodore W. Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr: and His Direct Lineal Descendants (Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: T. W. Herr, 1990), p. 73.
2Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73. Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Eden, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1122, p. 420, household 159, Oliver Watson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
3Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73. "The Old Must Die," obituary, Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Intelligencer, 29 November 1882; Newspapers+ (newspapers.com : accessed 18 June 2020). p. 7.
4Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73.
5Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73. Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Bart, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 787, p. 47A, household 61, Oliver Watson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 May 2015); NARA Microfilm Publication M432; Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
6Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73. "The Old Must Die."
7Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 73.
8Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 153, p. 473, Olover Watson; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 June 2020); NARA microfilm publication M19; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
9Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Lampeter Twonship,Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 467, p. 389, Oliver Watson; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 June 2020); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
101850 Census, Bart, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 787, p. 47A, household 61, Oliver Watson family.
111860 Census, Eden, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1122, p. 420, household 159, Oliver Watson family.
12"The Old Must Die."
13Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Eden, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 176, roll 1143, p. 532B, household 82, Mary Watson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
14Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
15Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212. Longeneckers Reformed Mennonite Cemetery, West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 18 June 2020), Anna Fraelich; Created by: Jack W.Singleton, Photo added by Rebecca Rinehard; Henry Fraelich; Created by: Jack W.Singleton, Photo added by Rebecca Rinehard. 1860 Census, Strasburg, Lancaster Couinty, Pennsylvania, p. 802, household 254, Henry Fraeligh family.
16Information on Susan, spouse and child, is from: Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 123593, Susan Arment, 1925; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 June 2020); Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11, Series 11.90. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 33, p. 5, household 83, George Arment; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 June 2020); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
17Longeneckers Reformed Mennonite Cemetery, West Lampeter Township, Elizabeth Zittle; Created by: Carolyn Y Lowe Shifflett, Photo added by Tina Miller; Josiah Zittle; Created by: Carolyn Y Lowe Shifflett, Photo added by Tina Miller. 1860 Census, Strasburg, Lancaster Couinty, Pennsylvania, p. 802, household 254, Henry Fraeligh family.
181860 Census, Strasburg, Lancaster Couinty, Pennsylvania, p. 802, household 254, Henry Fraeligh family. Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 16664, John Fraelich, 1933.
191860 Census, Strasburg, Lancaster Couinty, Pennsylvania, p. 802, household 254, Henry Fraeligh family.
20Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 29730, Mary A Harnish, 1934.
211860 Census, Strasburg, Lancaster Couinty, Pennsylvania, p. 802, household 254, Henry Fraeligh family.
22Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
23Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
24Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212. Hepler Cemetery, Hepler, Crawford County, Kansas, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 18 May 2020), Jacob Watson; Created by: T.V.F.T.H., Photo added by prairieflower; Hannah Watson; Created by: T.V.F.T.H., Photo added by prairieflower.
25Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 433. Bainbridge Cemetery, Huntley, Harlan County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 18 May 2020), Mary Sprague; Created by: RWAL; L. A. Sprague; Created by: RWAL; information provided by informant. Filer Cemetery, Filer, Twin Falls County, Idaho,, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 18 May 2020), Thaddeus Herr Watson; Created by: For Get Me Not. Thrasher Cemetery, Spurgeon, Newton County, Missouri, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 18 May 2020), John Watson; Originally Created by: Jody, Maintained by: Judie. 1860 Census, Durham, Hancock County, Illinois, roll 184, p. 972, household 5004, Jacob B. Watson family. 1870 Census, Durham, Hancock County, Illinois, roll 226, p. 111B, household 83, Jacob Watson family.
26Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
27Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212. 1850 Census, Bart, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 787, p. 47A, household 61, Oliver Watson family. Georgetown Methodist Cemetery, Georgetown, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 18 June 2020), Susanna Helm; Originally Created by: Dana Dancy, Maintained by: Steve Dierwechter, Photo added by Miabeth. [Note: date of birth is 13 March 1834 based on age at death on grave marker]; Jacob Helm; Originally Created by: Dana Dancy, Maintained by: Steve Dierwechter, Photo added by Miabeth. 1860 Census, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, p. 48, household 262, Jacob Hellem family. Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1354, p. 7A, household 100, Jacob Hellem family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 June 2020); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
28Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate7583, J Martin Hellem, 1924.
29Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 40719, William E Helm, 1924.
301860 Census, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, p. 48, household 262, Jacob Hellem family.
31Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 105801, Mary E Walker, 1927.
32Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 33032, Milton O. Helm, 1909.
33Pennsylvania Department of Health. Death Certificates, 1906–1967. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2020.
34Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212. 1880 Census, Eden, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 176, roll 1143, p. 532B, household 82, Mary Watson family.
35Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
36Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.
37Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 42037, Margaret Eager, 1918. Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212. Strasburg Cemetery, Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Find a Grave, digital images (gindagrave.com : accessed 18 June 2020), Thomas Eager; Created by: Carolyn Y Lowe Shifflett.
38Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr, p. 212.

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