OBIT: WATSON, Martha, 1935, Pendleton Co., KY
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Subject: OBIT: WATSON, Martha, 1935, Pendleton Co., KY
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OBIT: Watson, Martha, 1935, Pendleton Co., KY

MISS MARTHA WATSON OBIT

   Miss Martha E. Watson was born Oct. 2, 1858, in Pendleton 
County, KY, and passed on at her home at Charleston, Ill., 
Oct. 28, 1935, following a short illness.
   Miss Watson was the daughter of Joseph M. and Hannah Colvin 
Watson and lived the early part of her life in Pendleton 
county.  After her father's death in 1882 she went to Illinois 
to make her home with her sister, Sarah, and her husband, Dr. 
P.M. Duvall, and remained there the rest of her life except 
for a few visits to her Kentucky relatives.
   Since the Duvall family passed on, she was alone, but spent 
the last two winters in Kentucky with her sister, Mrs. Mary E. 
Applegate, and other relatives and was planning to return for 
another winter.
   She was one of a large family and is survivied by one 
sister, Mrs. Mary E. Applegate; three sisters-in-law, Mrs. 
Belle Watson of Covington, Mrs. Lizzie Watson of near Falmouth 
and Mrs. May Watson of Chicago, Ill.  She is also survived by 
one niece and five nephews in Fort Worth, Texas, Leslie Duvall 
of Charleston, Ill., Maurice Watson and family of Chicago, 
Miss Blance Watson of Covington, Miss Hallie Applegate and 
Mrs. Kirtley B. Woolery of Falmouth, and B. Watson Applegate 
and wife and Beverly Watson of new Falmouth.
   She was buried in Pleasant Grove cemetery in Pleasant Grove 
Township in Illinois.
   Miss Watson joined the Falmouth Baptist Church in early 
years and always retained her membership here.  She was a 
loyal church woman and a fine Christian character.

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