There dwelt near Tennyson Indiana one Henderson Watson and family. My father did not tell me the name of his wife but said that she "was the most wonderful person that he ever knew. Henderson did not seem to be to much concerned about anyone but himself and was not much help to his family when the Civil War began. He and his three sons joined the 120th? Indiana Volunteers and left Grandmother and the seven girls to get along the best they could. At times they did not know where the next meal was to come from. But the Lord seem to provide. Once when they were without food a cow came to their house with milk spraying from her tits. So to the relief of the cow and satisfaction of the family she was milked. Another time when food was gone, a pig came wandering in and did not get to wander away. When she was old she lived with her children, going from one to the other. All she had, she carried in a basket. When we saw her coming, we ran to meet her. She never did anything wrong. If our clothes were mended and the patch was not right and the child complained, we would say "grandma did it", it became a work of excellance and a piece of art. If the bread was not just right and it was hinted that grandma baked it, it became a delicacy. yes, she was a wonderful woman; a great personality and a tribute to humanity. I am sorry papa didn't tell me more about her.
She had a son, Hayden, who was married twice. I do not remember the name of either wife. It seemed that families do not care as much for the second wife as the first -- whether through jealousy, whether only the good of the first is remembered or whether one was just better than the other. To this first marriage there were sons and daughters. Some of them I remember. The first one was born after Uncle Hayden came from the war and so he called him General. The boy was without a name until he finally named himself Charles. He later went to Missouri. I know nothing more about him. Another was Thomas who was a bunch bad. He never married and as I remember was murdered - it seems like, here memory fails me, by a nephew. Another son was Samuel (Sam) who married twice. By the first wife there was a son, Herman. Sam's wife died during Herman's infancy and he was adopted and raised by John Powers. Then Sam married Ethel Thomas and they had a son. His name I forgot. Both of Sam's boys were doctors. Both boys married but the youngest boy and his wife separated. Sam taught school all his life - was talented in music. They had a daughter who married her cousin Charles M. Skelton. They had three sons, all of whom died before the age of 5. Another child named Cordia(?) who married Herman Dre(can't read). Cordia and Herman had three children: Marjorie, Charles and Robert.
Another daughter married a man named Leigh. He died and left her with some children.
It seems to me that one married James Phillips, but here again memory failes me.
By his second marriage, there was two children born. A girl named Daisy who married a Hobbs and they had a daughter. Then there was a son, John Wesley, who married a lady from Rockport.
Samuel Watson was the second oldest son. I do not remember whom he married. He married a girl from the South during the war and they had a daughter Liva. The wife came up and lleft the daughter with his mother and she was reared by Grandma Watson as one of her girls. We were to call her Aunt. She married Martin Kron and they had two boys. One named William, who had some children. I do not remember anything about the other. They had a son, "Teed", who had three daughters: Birdie, Gurtha and Opal. Birdie has some children; Gurtha married a policeman in Evansville and I think they separated; and Opal married. Don't know nothing further of her. Another son was Jonathan Andrew Daily who married and left no children. He was a teacher.
William Daily Watson (Uncle Doc) was married three times. He married two sisters and by one of them he had two children: Lucinda who married Sherman Garrison to whom was born three girls, Iva, Fannie and Irene. Iva married Norman Hoskinson and they had children. Fannie married a Rhodes and they had a son, Max, and he a son Mike who is 18 (Christmas 1968). Irene married Springston (a doctor) and they have a couple of boys. Another boy was Harvey who married a Shoptaugh. They had a daughter, Ethel, and a son. Uncle Doc then married Ellen Johnson and they had a daughter, Mayme, who married Dr. Cook. She died about a year aftey her marriage.