MRS. JOHN WATSON, Sec. 24; P. O. Livingston; was born in Lancashire, England, Sept. 18, 1827. She was married to John Watson in the Church of England, and came to America in 1848; stopped in New Orleans six months on acount of sickness in the family, and lost two children there with ship fever - Thomas and another child unnamed. They then came to St. Louis, where her husband worked in the coal mines one year, and then came to the town of Clifton, in which place he resided till his death. He followed mining until he bought the farm where his wife now lives; owned 170 acres of land. He died May 23, 1876, of congestion of the brain, aged 52 years, and was buried at Rock Church Cemetery, according to the Masonic Order, by Mifflin Lodge. The procession reached nearly a mile. It was estimated that there were over 1,000 persons in attendance. Mrs. Watson has seven children living - Winfield S., Catharine, Sarah, Elizabeth M., John W., Charles and James. Three deceased - Ann, Lincoln and one infant, not named, all buried in Rock Church Cemetery. Winfield married Ellen Stephens. Catharine, G. W. Hilbry, and Sarah, James Mundon, all living in the town of Clifton and farming, except Winfield, who keeps hotel at Livingston. Mrs. Watson has been a member of the M. E. Church for twenty years.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.