Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Watkins, Francis F. 1851 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FRANCIS F. WATKINS. The owner of the excellent farm on section 3, Millington
Township, Tuscola County, is he whose name appears above. He is a native of Ohio
and was there born January 10, 1851. He is a son of Benjamin F. Watkins, a
native of Ohio, whose whole career was identified exclusively with that State
and the vicinity in which he lived. In his young manhood he married Miss Emma C.
Johnson, a daughter of Jerry Johnson, a native of Maryland. From their union
three children were born, two sons and one daughter. Our subject's father
enlisted in the late war in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, but was later
transferred to the Nineteenth Ohio.

  He was discharged after a month's service, but re-enlisted and died at
Cleveland at Camp Taylor, April 9, 1863. He was a farmer by occupation and was
distinguished for many excellent and manly qualities. Politically he was a
Republican. He was a member of the State Militia and was Lieutenant of an Ohio
Regiment. Our subject was reared in the Buckeye State, receiving in his boyhood
a fair common school education.

  Mr. Watkins was married July 26, 1874 to Margaret Forsythe, a daughter of
Henry Forsythe, a native of Scotland, who settled first in Canada, but later
removed to Ohio. During the latter part of his life he lived in Millington
Township, Tuscola County, where he died. The wife still survives and resides
near our subject. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis F. Watkins have been born five
children, their names being Guy, Lucy, Mina, Mabel and Frank. Mrs. Margaret
Watkins died September 18, 1882. June 15, 1884, our subject was married to Miss
Rosalie Minns, a daughter of Philip Minns, a native of England, who came to the
United States when a young man. He was a sailor in early life, but settled in
Macomb County, Mich., over forty years ago, where he lived a few years then
removed to New York and finally came to Millington, where he died in 1889, his
wife having died several years before him. Our subject and his present wife have
had three children, two of whom are living—Mary and Olive. Emma is deceased.

  Our subject located on one hundred and two acres of land, half of which he
sold. Besides this tract upon which he lives he owns forty acres in Vassar
Township. On coming here it was as wild as possible, but he has cleared it and
now owns a good home and pleasing surroundings. Socially Mr. Watkins belongs to
DeWitt Tent, No. 69, of Millington Lodge, K. O. T. M. Politically he is a
Republican. While living in Ohio he was the incumbent of various township offices.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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