Lee-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Watson, Ann August 14, 1843 - November 5, 1917
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John Simmons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007486 June 14, 2018, 12:06 pm

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Author: John Simmons

Ann was born in 1843 near Americus in Marion County, Georgia. Her parents 
were Henry Weaver and Permelia Deloach.  Ann was in Russell County, Alabama 
in 1860. She was married to George W. Watson in April of that year and J.W. 
DeLoach was her guardian. George and Ann began their life together and 
started a family. They lived near to George's parents and his siblings. 
Ann's brother, Thomas ,and her uncle, Larkin Weaver, also lived nearby. 

 War came to the south and to Alabama in 1861.  Ann's husband enlisted with 
the 45th Alabama Infantry. Ann's brother, Thomas J. Weaver joined with 
George and then went off to war together. Thomas had married George's 
sister, Susan A.R. Watson earlier in 1858. 

George was in battle at Stone's River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Thomas was 
captured during the Atlanta Campaign near Dallas, Georgia and was later 
paroled and exchanged. After the war Ann and George resumed their lives and 
endured the Reconstruction era. In 1866 a new county was created. The 
Watsons now lived in this new county of Lee. It was created from portions of 
Chambers, Russell, and Tallapoosa counties.  Ann and George had 9 children 
by 1880 and they lived in Ridgegrove west of Opelika in Lee County.  In 1896 
Ann lost her husband. He was killed in a dispute with a neighbor over hired 
help. He was buried at Farmville Cemetery in Lee County and this left her a 
widow. She applied for pension as a widow of a Confederate Soldier. In 1909 
Ann purchased land in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 27, Township 20, Range 
25. By the next year when the census was taken she was living with her son 
William and his family. She  passed away in 1917 in Lanett, Chambers County, 
Alabama. 

Ann and George had 10 children and the census of 1900  indicated that 7 of 
those children were living. 


Additional Comments:
Her place of burial has not yet been determined.

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