Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . inated by his own comrades, he having attemptedto escape turther service in the army. The mother of our subject was born children to Missouri. She spent the latter years of her life in Greene countvdying here in 1900 at the advanced age of eighty years. She was a woman?of heroic mettle and after the death of her husband returned from Arkansasto the arm m this county and reared her small children in cnmf„rt andrespectability, and gave them such educations as cou
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . inated by his own comrades, he having attemptedto escape turther service in the army. The mother of our subject was born children to Missouri. She spent the latter years of her life in Greene countvdying here in 1900 at the advanced age of eighty years. She was a woman?of heroic mettle and after the death of her husband returned from Arkansasto the arm m this county and reared her small children in cnmf„rt andrespectability, and gave them such educations as could be obtained ,n thatday 111 the country schools. _ James AAatson grew to manhood on the home farm in Greene countvhaving been but two years old when his parents brough him here from a Ining. He received his education in the district schools. In the earlv Cavaln-in Tr IT l T ^ ^ *^- Eighth MissouriS ; W *^^^ ^ ?? *- Union army and saw consider- abk haid service, taking part in many of the campaigns and battles of thatted ,„,ent. He was incapacitated for some time as a result of sun-An^:uZr^ - ^ honorably discharged in. mi;. AM) MRS. .lAMKS WATSON. GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 929 After returning home from the war Air. Watson resumed farming w hichlie continued in Greene and Christian counties in an eminently satisfactorymanner, becoming owner of \alual>le and productive farming lands, whiclihe brought up to a high state of improvement and culti\-ation and on whichhe carried on general farming and stock raising on a large scale up to a few\ears ago. when he retired from the actixe duties of life and is now livingretired, surrounded by all the comforts necessary to happiness in old age, asa result of his earlier years of activity. j\lr. Watson was twice married, first, in 1861, to [Martha Ann daughter of Walter Brashears and wife. She was a native of Tennessee.•She sur\ived twenty-eight years after her marriage, her death occurring in1889. In the year 1S93 ^^J.
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