"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD,
EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W.
TEPPLE
MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MADISON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 357
BENJAMIN R. WATSON, farmer and carpenter, was born in this township October
21, 1838, and is the fourth of the five children born to Thomas and Mary
(Royston) Watson, natives of Virginia and North Carolina, and respectively
of Irish and English extraction. Benjamin Watson was reared on a farm, but
received a good educaton at the subscription schools, and subsequently
taught in the public schools of Morgan County for seven and one half years.
November 22, 1859, he married Elizabeth Woodward, a native of Morgan
County,
who bore him four children--Thomas B., Mary M., Andrew I. and Alfred.
December 14, 1874, Mr. Watson, having lost his wife, married Rachel M.
Perisho, a native of Clarke County, Ill. As a farmer, Mr. Watson owns and
manages a farm of fifty-six acres, and as a carpenter has followed the
trade
for over thrity yers. He was one year Secretary of Grange Lodge, No. 1246,
at Brooklyn, Clay Township, and in politics he is a Democrat.
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