_Henry Watkins ___
_Thomas Watkins ___|_Katherine Pride _
_Joel Watkins ___|
| | __________________
| |_Elizabeth Pride __|__________________
_Silas (Seldon) Watkins _|
| | __________________
| | _? Gresham ________|__________________
| |_Rhoda Gresham __|
| | __________________
| |_Barbara holcombe _|__________________
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|--John W. Watkins
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| _Henry Watkins ___
| _Edward Watkins ___|_Katherine Pride _
| _John Watkins ___|
| | | __________________
| | |_ 3_wives _________|__________________
|_Phoebe (Patty) Watkins _|
| _William Hancock _
| _Samuel Hancock ___|__________________
|_Phoebe Hancock _|
| _Robert Hancock __
|_Johann Hancock ___|_Johann Ligon ____
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A generation earlier, according to a book of Alabama History, there was a Dr. John Watkins and a Joel W. Watkins who settled at Mardisville in about 1750. It also says that Dr. John Watkins saved the life of Elizabeth Stroud at Ft. Claiborne, AL who had been injured by Indians during a raid on 13Mar1818. Also a Dr. John Watkins was elected as a member of the constitutional convention for Alabama on 2Mar1819. On 18Mar1833 John Watkins was fined $1 by the county treasurer. In 1836 Dr. John Watkins was listed as a resident of Mardisville , AL. But this began before our John Carter was born.
According to J. W. Carter, he lived on the Chocolocco Creek near Talladega, at what was later known as the Tom Best Place. Major Bowie lived there after Watkins sold the place and mover to Texas. Old Marble Springs Church is at the foot of the hill of the Tom Best Place. Robert Jemison and E. S. Jemison were neighbor of Charles Carter.
James Watkins Carter called him Major John Watkins in his letter to Miss. Jemison in 1927. He said that he was named after him. According to some notes by J. W. Carter, "Major Watkins, father of Dr. John Watkins, from whom I get my middle name, came to Texas in 1858 and settled in LaGrange, TX, with his father, mother, wife, brother Dr. Robert Watkins, his wife (my sister) Sallie Carter and some slaves. After 4 years they all moved to Brenham, TX. They died there and are buried in the cemetery in Brenham. Dr. John Watkins was the last to die after treating a yellow fever epidemic in which 600 people died."
In the records of Wilcox County, AL by Marilyn Davis Barefield, ISBN 089308-636-3(GEN 976.1B248), 1988, I found a record of a marriage of John Jameson and Winniford Ratcliff performed by A. Saltmarsh J.P. on 26Dec1826, with Nathaniel Jameson Security. This looks like his parents from the names, the place, and the time. There is quite a lot about John Watkins, the Jamesons, and the Radcliffs in this book of court records. This must have been where these three families got together.
Lisa spent some time in the La Grange, TX LIbrary the week of Aug24, 1997 and found the following census records.
1860 Round Top, Fayette County, TX (7 miles from LaGrange) John Watkins 75 male Gentleman 9085 acres VA Elizabeth 61 female LA
1870 Brenham, Washington County, TX Elizabeth Watkins 70 female (can't read) GA John 9 male in school TX Eugene 6 male at home TX Musee 4 female TX
REFERENCES
95-106613:Ewing, Evelyn Jones. Watkins families of southern Virginia /. [Emporia, Va.] (115 Walnut Circle, Emporia, 23847), E.J. Ewing, c1994. 169, [16] p, ill. maps, 29 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: CS71.W335 1994
89-80207:Stutesman, John Hale. Some Watkins families of Virginia and their kin. Baltimore, Gateway Press San Francisco, CA, Orders to J.H. Stutesman , 1989. ix, 588 p, ill., 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: CS71.W335 1989
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