TENNESSEE STATE RECORDS - BIOGRAPHIES - Elsworth Watson
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Elsworth Watson

Surnames:  Miller, Flory, Quakenbosh (Quakenbush),
Stalcup, Hunter, Payne, King, Horn, Gamron, Owens,
Stillens, Troy, Winings

Locations:  Douglas Co., IL; near Dayton, OH; Pennsylvania;
Vermilion, Kansas; Tennessee; Virginia; Arthur, IL; 
Chesterville, IL

Elsworth Watson, a progressive farmer of Richland township,
was born January 15, 1877, in Center township, the same county.
He was only two years old when his father died.  He went to
school and during the winter months, working for his board
and serving as a farm hand during the rest of the year.  He
married Susan Flory, February 21, 1889, after which he farmed
in Center township, Greene county, for two years, and for a 
short time in Richland township.  In 1892 he went to Douglas
county, Illinois, and farmed there for a period of ten years.
In 1903 he returned to his native township and bought over 
three hundred acres of land, where he still lives.  He has
a fine farm, over two hundred acres of which are in cultivation.
He raises a great deal of stock of all kinds and carries on
general farming.  He is a Democrat.  His wife was the daughter
of Noah E. and Maria (Miller) Flory.  He is a native of 
Pennsylvania.  He came to Ohio, near Dayton, and then to Greene
county, Indiana, locating near Tulip.  He was a cooper by
trade.  He died in 1892.  His widow is living in Richland 
township, Greene county, Indiana.  She went to Ohio with her
parents when young.  Her grandfather was John Flory, a native
of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of Greene county, Indiana.  
Noah E. Flory and wife had thirteen children, namely:  Catherine,
who married James Quackenbosh, of Vermilion, Kansas; Elizabeth,
who married William Stalcup, of Richland township; John, a
farmer of the same locality, who married Ida Null; Henry, a 
preacher and farmer, who also lives there; Mary, Callie, Riley,
Noah and Ella, all deceased; Jacob, a farmer in Richland 
township; Susan, the subject's wife; Samuel, a farmer of 
Douglas county, Illinois, who is married; Thomas, who married
Alverta Hunter; they live in Tulip, Indiana.  They subject
and wife have seven children, as follows:  Dexter, Charles
and Harley, twins; Clyde, Nettie, Vesta and Albert.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Daily and Quintella
(Payne) Watson, natives of Greene county.  He died in September,
1879.  She married James M. King, of Tennessee, who died in 
a few years, and she married a third time.  Christopher Horn
was her last husband.  They lived at Koleen, Indiana.  The
Watsons were natives of Virginia and were pioneers of Greene
county, Indiana.  Daily Watson grew up in Center township
and attended the neighborhood schools, working on his father's
farm.  he was always a farmer, and a member of the Christian
church.  He and his wife had three children.  They are:  Marion,
an attorney and real estate dealer at Arthur, Illinois; he
married Josie Gamron; Elsworth, the subject of this sketch;
Daily, a farmer near Chesterville, Illinois, who married Esther
Owens.  There were five children from the second marriage of
the subject's mother, namely:  Irvin, deceased; Lusette, wife
of Franklin Stillens, of Arthur, Illinois; Rosetta, wife of 
John Troy, and Viola, single, both of Arthur, Illinois; Albert,
a carpenter, who married Della Winings, of Arthur, Illinois.


Source:  "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. 
with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co.,
Indianapolis, IN, 1908.