Obit: Green Watkins, Winn & Grant Parish Louisiana
Submitted by
Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
gedavies@iAmerica.net




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GREEN WATKINS
{Slave)
Winn Parish Enterprise, September 11, 1931

Death Claimed Old Slave Darkey On Sun. August 23rd

The death on August 23, of Green Watkins, colored, aged 86, at Atlanta
marked the passing of one of the last of the old time slave darkies of this
section.

Prior to the Civil War old "Uncle Green" as he was familiarly called by
both white and colored, lived and served as a slave in the old household of
Green Tegal (Teagle?) in Grant Parish.
After the war, he was servant in the homes of the following residents of
Colfax: M. C. Mosley, John Miller, Judge J. A. Williams, C. H. Teal, and J. H.
McNealey.

Later he made his home at Verda, where he served in the home of John C.
Calhoun, but for the last thirty years he had made his home in Atlanta.
He was married to Harriet Goff while living at Verda and to this union
were born sixteen children.

(Note:  This submitter knew for many years Lenard Watkins, probably the
youngest son of Green Watkins.  He was a most pleasant man, living in
Winnfield for many years, before moving to Shreveport late in life.  Mr.
Lenard Watkins, like his father, worked for many Winnfield residents
throughout the years, and never has anyone had anything bad to say of
Lenard.  Like his father, he had a large family, most of whom moved to the
Shreveport area with him in the 1980s.  My last visit with him came in the
late 1980s when I went to Shreveport to make an arrest of someone living in
the same neighborhood.  I did not realize I was in Lenard's neighborhood
until I got out of my car and heard a distinct, familiar voice calling my
name.  I was pleasantly surprised to see it was my old friend  Lenard.  He
had to take me to every yard nearby and introduce me as his friend from
Winnfield.