George Watson 1795-1861
written by Lea Hartline. George is my husband’s 3rd great grandfather.
George Watson was born in Georgia on July 12, 1795 to Thomas Watson and Susanna Zachery. He had a twin sister Elizabeth Watson.
Thomas and Susanna had 12 children.
Census Records
1830 Monroe, Alabama George Watson has 14 people living in his home.The breakdown is White males under 18 is 4, White males over 18
is 1 White females under 18 is 4, White females over 18. Slaves 4 they are 2 males between the ages of 10-23 and one female under
10 and another aged 10-23.
1840 Monroe Alabama George Watson now has 21 people living in his home. The breakdown is as follows. White males under 19 is 6,
white males over 19 is 1, White females under 18 is 4, White females over 18 1. There are know 9 slaves Females under 23 is 5
with two of them being under 10, adult females slaves is 2 Both males slaves are listed as being between 10 and 23.
1850 Monroe, Alabama
George now has 28 in his home. It is actually a hard census to read because the numbers don’t add up however what is clear is
that George now has 18 slaves.
1850 Monroe, Alabama
George is a farmer with real estate valued at 2,000. After a little research I learned that prices of land in 1850 ranged between
3.68 to 21.73 an acre. Let us assume George paid the high prices that would mean he may have owned around 90 or so acres of land.
Monroe census is 136 pages and so I only looked at a few pages to see how he compared with his close neighbors in real estate value.
Next door Jackson Watson had 100 and on the other side William McWilliams had 300. It seems most people seemed to own around 250-1000
however, I did find one farmer who had 10,000. Living with George is wife Nancy and children Daniel, Frank, Josiah, Sarepta, Susanah
and Martha.
1860 Monroe, Alabama
George is living with wife Nancy and the following Susan Watson, Martha Watson, Jane Burt, Thomas Burt, Richard Burt and
Walton Brantley.
George Watson and his first wife Nancy Hurt’s children.Jackson E. Watson 1818-1865 second marriages first to Elizabeth Powell
and then to Henrietta Hinson; Betty Ann Watson 1819-?; Maryann Frances Watson 1822-1871 m:Christopher Wren Green 1818-1885
(in 1860 Christopher was a teacher but in other census records he was a farmer);Thomas Watson 1823-1823;William Watson and
Ann Jane Sampey;Lucinda Watson 1827-1891 m: James McMillan 1819-?;Nancy Watson 1828-1892 m:John Bowen 1818;
George Watson 1830-1902 m: Mary Ellen Andress 1833-1900;Daniel Grant Watson 1932-1863 m: Sarah T. Atkinson 1828-1923
(Daniel was a private in the 2nd Alabama Cavalry and died of a disease the day after Christmas 1863).Frank Watson 1834-1962;
Josiah Watson 1835-1903 m:Caroline V. Patrick 1839-1903.
George Watson and the children with his second wife Mary Nancy Rumbley. Sarepta Jane Watson 1838-m: Richard Newton Burt 1833-1860;
Susan Demage Watson 1840-1909 m:Whitson B. Green Jr. 1836-1925; Martha Ann Watson 1843-1921 m:William Bigby Green 1842-1923.
George Watson died on September 13, 1861 he was only 66 years old, but already he had buried one wife, Nancy Hurt and at
least 2 children. He died in Burnt Corn, Georgia and is buried with many of his relatives in the Watson-Green Cemetery in
Drewry, Georgia.
George (3rd Gen) was married twice. Once to Nancy Hurt who died in 1937 and then he married Mary Nancy Rumbley. Nancy Hurt is the
mother of Robert’s 2nd great grandfather William Worth Watson
