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Submitted: 3/15/16 • Approved: 3/15/16 • Last Updated: 3/29/18 • R788970-G0-S3
1863 - 1949
William Henry Watson, 86, of 315 A. Cottage Grove, blacksmith here for over fifty years, died in a Kirksville hospital Wednesday evening at 7:15 o'clock. Mr. Watson fell at his home on May 3 and fractured his left hip.
Funeral services will be held at the Robert B. Davis Memorial Chapel Friday afternoon (June 3) at 2:30 pm conducted by Fred P. Hanes, pastor of the Kirksville Methodist Church. Interment will be in Maple Hills Cemetery.
Mr. Watson, the son of William and Elizabeth Jane (Adams) Watson was born one and one-half miles north of Brashear on March 31, 1863. He was married to Idella Brown on March 28, 1888 and to this marriage two children, twins, were born. Mrs. Watson died August 4, 1931.
He is survived by the children, Mrs. W. C. Unash, of 208 E. Harrison and Ethren H. Watson of 315 S. Cottage Grove, one grandson, William F. Unash, two great-grandsons, William Charles and Ronald Paul Unash and one half-sister, Mrs. Allie Collop of Whitter, California. Four brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
Mr. Watson learned blacksmithing when about sixteen years of age from his brother, Lark Watson. He was associated with W.H. Steele in a shop at Brashear for a short while and 55 years ago he came to Kirksville and opened a shop here which he conducted until a few years ago when he was forced to retire on account of this health.
The body is at the Robert B. Davis Funeral Home, corner of Jefferson and Elson Streets.
Spouse:
Mary Idella Brown Watson (1860 - 1931)
Children:
Eva Louise Watson Unash (1889 - 1978)
Ethren H. Watson (1889 - 1965)
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