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Marriage is from Burleson Co., TX marriage records. Vol 1 pg 187.
Year: 1860
Individual: Watson, John County/State: Burleson Co., TX Location:
Caldwell P.O. Page #: 127
Individual: Watson, John County/State: Burleson Co., TX Location: Blue
Branch P.O. Page #: 147
Marriage Index: AR, MS, MO, TX, 1766-1981
F452 s: FLAMINGHAM, L A Miss WATSON, John 06 Aug
1855
Came to Texas when 6 years old with his parents.
See Burleson Co., TX, Bk B, pg 337 for guardianship of his minor children.
Confederate Muster records, Pvt., Co. A, Allen's Reg't Texas Infantry
(Texas State Troopers'), enlisted Apr 1, 1862 @@ Camp Terry, TX, 29 years
old, died of Typhoid fever in Little Rock, AR, final statements sent home.
Census
1860 WATSON JOHN Burleson County TX 127 Caldwell P.O. Federal Population
Schedule TX 1860
1860 WATSON JOHN Burleson County TX 147 Blue Branch P.O. Federal
Population Schedule TX 1860
John Watson 27 Farmer $1600 GA
S. 26 IN
Willis 4 TX
Mary 2 TX
Pascal 2 months TX
Land;
Preemp certif. 160 File #1478, Milam 3rd class, granted November 4, 1856,
witnesses, Robert Lilly and John Turner.
State of Texas Land Patent, September 15, 1859 Bk G pg 620.
Taxes;
1854 Burleson Co., Texas Tax Rolls, John Watson paid taxes on 1 Negro
valued at #1200, 2 horses at $140, Total value taxed, 1340, & $.50 poll
tax, & $2.51 state tax, & $1.25 county tax.
1855, Burleson Co., Texas Tax Rolls, Taxpayer #424, John Watson taxed on
1 Negro at $1100, 2 horses at $150, & poll tax$.50, State tax $2.38, &
County tax at $1.19.
1856 Burleson Co., Texas Tax Rolls, Poll tax $.50, State tax $.50, &
County tax $.25.
1857 Paid taxes on 160 acres worth $220, located on the Yagua.
1859 Burleson Co., TX State Land records G-620, land from Smith Hamilton,
April 1 1859. State of Texas Land Patent Sept. 15, 1859.
John was privately tutored. When he came of age he went to the court in
order to become guardian of his siblings. His wife's family lived on the
next farm over, their marriage was conducted by a neighbor who was a
methodist minister. They lived in the "Blue Branch area. The value of
their estate was $1600. Enlisted in the Texas State Troopers at age 29.
He was in the same unit with his brother James P. who had joined at age
16. John died in a Confederate Hospital, he had served 10 months before
dying of Typhoid fever. His wife remarried in 1865. She later deeded
the Watson land to Mollie and Pascal. Son Willis is not found after the
census of 1880. He is living with his Aunt Elizabeth and her family and
sister Mollie in Burleson. In 1888 when Sarah made the land transfer,
Willis is not mentioned.
Terry, Camp, (Travis County) 4th Military Sub-District (Southern Texas)
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