History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . ntil her fourteenth year. Thenshe went to Texas, and there grew to young womanhood, being nineteen years old whenshe came to what is now Olive, then called the Bull Well Point. There was thennothing at Orange, and nothing worth while at Santa Ana. After their marriage, Mrs. Watson settled on their ranch at Olive, and Mrs. Watson brought up herthree stepchildren. .\s has been sai
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . ntil her fourteenth year. Thenshe went to Texas, and there grew to young womanhood, being nineteen years old whenshe came to what is now Olive, then called the Bull Well Point. There was thennothing at Orange, and nothing worth while at Santa Ana. After their marriage, Mrs. Watson settled on their ranch at Olive, and Mrs. Watson brought up herthree stepchildren. .\s has been said, in early days, David Watson was a sheepman; and keeping thou-sands of sheep, he had a full complement of herders, cooks and other employes. Whenhe disposed of his sheep, he bought a grocery store, which he managed for twentyyears. He also became the owner of a grain farm of 300 acres. When he died, heowned the twenty-four-acre ranch at Olive, and also 160 acres near Newhall, LosAngeles County. On this ranch of twenty-four acres, Mr. Watson died on October 17,1919, after an illness of about four years. He was a member of the Christian Churchat Orange, and was interred in the new cemetery south of HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 615 Mrs. Watson, who also owns a ranch of eight acres near Olive, is a daughter ofJohn and Eliza (Wood) Stewart, both of whom were natives of and married in father was a school teacher, and died when she was a baby, followed to the gravesoon after by her mother. They left four children. She was brought up by her grand-mother, Agnes Wood of Georgia, who passed away when our subject was twelve yearsof age. Sarah Stewart then went to live with her oldest sister, who was married andresided in Texas; and from the Lone Star State, she came with her brother, RobertStewart, now the rancher at Stockton, to Southern California, in June, 1869. , like her husband, is also a member of the Christian Church. In many lines have since fal
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