Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist., SC Marion, Marion PO # 350/350
Isham H. Watson 38 Farmer $25,000/14,000 SC
Nancy 36
Alex F. 11
Geo E. 9
Mary J. 7
D. J. 3 m
N. McD. 1 m;

!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Hillsboro, Nichols Depot PO # 1/2
George E. Watson 19 Merchant $-/- SC;

!CENSUS:1880;

!DEATH:From "The Pee Dee Index" - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;

!PROBATE:Marion Co, SC Probates Vol III # 2007 G. E. WATSON died intestate on 23 Oct 1885, leaving widow who has since delivered a female child (not named);

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 199-206
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Isham H. Watson, the third son of old man Isham, married a Miss McDuffie, sister to the late Sheriff McDuffie; by her he raised three children, two sons and a daughter; the sons were George E. and Duncan I., the latter named for his two grand-fathers, Isham Watson and Duncan McDuffie; the daughter (Janie), married our fellow-citizen, J. D. Montgomery. Isham H. Watson's first wife died of small-pox during the war; he married again. Miss Mary Nichols, who survives him, childless.
George E. Watson went West, and married there; some months after marriage, Geo. E. died suddenly, and left his widow, to whom a posthumous daughter was born, who takes and has the name of her father, George Elmore ; the widow and daughter are both now in Marion. ;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 199-206
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George E. Watson went West, and married there; some months after marriage, Geo. E. died suddenly, and left his widow, to whom a posthumous daughter was born, who takes and has the name of her father, George Elmore ; the widow and daughter are both now in Marion. ;