Schley-Grady-Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Watson, Mary Butrill March 25, 1942
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 April 3, 2007, 5:23 pm

The Ellaville Sun  Friday, March 27, 1942  No. 3
GRANDMOTHER OF LOCAL TEACHER PASSES AT 99
Mrs. Mary Buttrill Watson, member of a distinguished Georgia family and 
grandmother of Miss Ruth O'Kelley, Ellaville school teacher, died at Cairo, 
early Wednesday.  She would have reached her 100th birthday in October.  Mrs. 
Watson had a number of friends here, formed on visits to her granddaughter.  
She was the subject last summer of a Sun feature story, recounting experiemces 
as a refugee in the War Between the States.  Remarkably active, she showed 
little trace of extreme age and enjoyed riding in an automobile more than 300 
miles a day.  Mrs. Watson who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. L.L. 
O'Kelley, had been ill for three weeks.  She was born near Griffin, October 
25, 1842, the daughter of Asa and Mary Buttrill, pioneer Butts county 
settlers, and became the wife of the late Capt. Larkin Douglas Watson, taking 
an active part with him in the development of the county.  In addition to Mrs. 
O'Kelley, she is survived by a son, Col. L.D. Watson, Jr., of Gainesville; 12 
grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/obits/w/watson7151gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.7 Kb