"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 TWP.

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CYRUS A. WATSON, farmer and stock-grower, was born in this township August
17, 1829, and is the eldest of five children born to Thomas and Mary Ann
(Royston) Watson, natives respectively of Virginia and Tennessee, and of
Welsh and Irish descent. They erected the first log cabin in Madison
Township in 1819, and came here to reside in 1823, having purchased two
farms, and also having entered about 400 acres of land. Here Thomas Watson,
who had served his country in the war of 1812, died in 1856; his widow
still survives, at the age of seventy-seven. Cyrus A. Watson was reared a
farmer, and at his majority began for himself by clearing away the forest,
the country still being more or less a wilderness; he is now the owner of
a well improved and well stocked farm of 200 acres. December 12, 1869, he
married Susan, daughter of Daniel and Frances (Langyer) Thornberry, all
natives of Virginia. To this union one child, Samuel, was born January 17,
1871. Mr. Watson is a Freemason, an Odd Fellow and a Democrat, and has held
the office of Township Trustee four terms. His wife is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

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