Sketch of Thomas Watson, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Thomas Watson and his wife, Elizabeth Donnell, of Ireland, had three
sons: Thomas, Robert and William.  Mrs. Watson having died, her 
husband came to America with his three sons, and settled in North
Carolina.  Robert and William died young.  Thomas married Sarah T.
Harris, daughter of John Harris, a Revolutionary soldier, and settled
in St. Louis in 1837.  There he became associate editor of the Miss-
ouri Argus, and subsequently purchased the paper.  In 1842 President
Van Buren appointed him Postmaster at St. Louis, a position that he
filled for four years.  He was subsequently appointed Land Agent for
the State of Missouri by President Polk.  Mrs. Watson died in 1865,
in her 73rd year, and he died in 1870, in his 83rd year.  They had
nine children, five of whom survived their parents, viz: Henry, Emily,
Julia, Sarah and Thomas.  Henry was married twice; first to Miss Hay,
of Tennessee, and second to Maria Bergen.  He resides in St. Louis.
Julia lives in Mississippi, unmarried.  Sarah married John Jordan, of
Pensacola, Florida.  Thomas has been a Presbyterian minister for about
thirty two years, and is one of the leading divines of that denomina-
tion in this State.  He is pastor of Dardenne Church, in St. Charles
County, which was organized in 1819, and was the first Presbyterian
Church established west of St. Louis.  Mr. Watson married Nancy McCluer.

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