Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: David Allen WATKINS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, April 2008 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ David Allen Watkins was born near Knighton, England, February 27, 1847, and died March 12, 1918, being 71 years and fourteen days of age. He was the youngest of ten children of David Watkins, all of whom have long since died. From England his father brought him, direct as a child, to Green County, Wisconsin, where he was reared on a farm. For the last three years, he has made his home with his niece, Mrs. Tirza White, of Lincoln Street, this city. The funeral services were conducted today at Mr. Bigelow's undertaking parlors by Rev. Ezra P. Whitton and Mrs. Gaddis. Interment was at the Welsh cemetery. Mr. Watkins was held in high esteem by his neighbors, as well as by close relatives, Mr. W. A. Bourbeau, whom he befriended as a small boy, caring for him in a fatherly way. March 14, 1918, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin