Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Kerby's, Cat Fish PO # 11/11
Saml Watson 45 Farmer $6000/6500 SC
Frances 40 f
W. J. 13 m
Milton 14
S. J. 10 m
S. P. 7 m
Magnolia 5
Stonewall 3
Kate Bethea 18 Domestic;

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 297 Samuel P. WATSON, 18 (1861/62) born SC, father born SC, mother born SC;

!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. 162-166
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Another daughter of Captain William Page married the late Samuel Watson, and is dead ; she left at her death, W. Joseph Melton, S. P. and Stonewall C. Watson, and two daughters, Sophronia and Maggie. W. Joseph Watson removed to North Carolina. Melton is dead, without child or children; he married a daughter of the late Charles Moody, who still survives. Sophronia was the first wife of John K. Page ; she left two sons, Samuel and Ernest. Maggie married Frank Easterling, a very worthy citizen, and is doing well. ;

!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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Samuel Watson, the fourth son of old Isham, married, first, a Miss Page, and by her had sons, W. J. Watson, Melton, S. P. Watson and S. C. Watson, and two daughters, Sophronia and Maggie.
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S. P. Watson, third son of Samuel, married a Miss Bryan, near Little River, in Horry County is a physician; he left a few days ago, with his family, for Oklahoma ; he practiced medicine in Latta, and left his beautiful and comfortable home in Latta unsold; he sold his plantation to J. K. Page; he has seven children; he made a trip to that far off land last winter, and bought thirty acres of land in the suburbs of Oklahoma City, at $90 an acre; the city is growing so fast that his place is no longer in the suburbs, but is now in the city; his purchase has already quadrupled, and there is no telling what his thirty acres of land will be worth in the near future; the city now has 20,000 inhabitants. ;

!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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S. P. Watson, third son of Samuel, married a Miss Bryan, near Little River, in Horry County is a physician; he left a few days ago, with his family, for Oklahoma ; he practiced medicine in Latta, and left his beautiful and comfortable home in Latta unsold; he sold his plantation to J. K. Page; he has seven children; he made a trip to that far off land last winter, and bought thirty acres of land in the suburbs of Oklahoma City, at $90 an acre; the city is growing so fast that his place is no longer in the suburbs, but is now in the city; his purchase has already quadrupled, and there is no telling what his thirty acres of land will be worth in the near future; the city now has 20,000 inhabitants. ;