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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

F. D. WATSON.
    F. D. Watson, automobile dealer of Huntsville, handling the Ford cars, was
born in Hall county, Georgia, near Gainesville, in 1890. He is a son of W. M.
and Nancy (Hausen) Watson, who were also natives of Georgia and on coming to
Arkansas in 1892 settled in Madison County. There the father purchased a farm,
on which he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1918. His father
was David Watson, who was born in South Carolina, hut in early life removed to
Georgia, where he died at the advanced age of ninety years. He had served under
General Longstreet as a Confederate soldier in the Civil war. The maternal
grandfather of F. D. Watson was David Hausen, who was born in Georgia, and came
to Arkansas, where his remaining days were passed, his death occurring when he
had reached the age of eighty-eight. His daughter, Mrs. Nancy Watson, survives
and is now living with her son. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, to which her husband also belonged and his political allegiance was
given to the democratic party. They became parents of eight children: Minnie,
the wife of Calvin Stanfield, residing on a farm in Madison county; Garland, a
farmer, living in Fayetteville, Arkansas; J. A., a salesman with the Bear State
Oil Company at Springdale, Arkansas; E. M., whose home is on a farm near
Fayetteville; F. D., of this review; Paul, a teacher in the schools of Madison
county; Luther, living on the old homestead farm; and Lee, who is living with
his  brother, F. D. Watson, and attending school.

    In his youthful days F. D. Watson mastered the branches of learning taught
in the schools of Huntsville and then took up the profession of teaching, which
he followed for eight years, imparting readily and clearly to others the
knowledge that he had acquired. He then purchased a store which he conducted for
three years and in 1918 he established the Ford plant and has continued in this
business to the present time. He not only maintains a Ford agency but handles
all kinds of supplies and his business is now one of large proportions.

    In 1910 Mr. Watson was married to Miss Addie Dyer, who was born in
Huntsville, a daughter of J. W. Dyer, a well-known farmer of Madison county. Mr.
and Mrs. Watson are the parents of four children: Era, Carl, Mildred and
Stanley, all yet in school. Mr. Watson and his family attend the Methodist
Episcopal church, and he belongs also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He has always voted the democratic ticket since age conferred upon him the right
of franchise, hut has never sought nor desired office as a reward for party
fealty, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business
affairs. His close application, unfaltering energy and thoroughness have been
the salient features in the success which has come to him, making him one of the
representative young business men of the city.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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