Descendants
of William Henry Watkins
Warren County, Indiana
Researched, Compiled and Submitted by Adina Watkins Dyer
First Generation
1. William Henry WATKINS [875], son of William WATKINS
and Mahala BUTLER, was born in Nov 1824 in Sussex Co., DE,
died on 25 Nov 1875 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN, and was buried in
probably Davis Cemetery,
Warren Co., IN. Another name
for William was Henry.
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Sussex Co., Delaware
Apprentice Indenture
Book B, pg. 185
May 25, 1832
Indenture WHITTINGTON RICARDS from Wm. HENRY WADKINS This
Indenture made this twenty-fifth day of May in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Witnesseth that WILLIAM O. REDDEN a Justice of the Peace
and ISAAC KINDER a trustee of the poor for Sussex County
and State of Delaware hath put and bound, and by their
presents do put and bind a certain minor by the name Wm
HENRY WADKINS and son of WILLIAM WADKINS late of Northwest
Fork hundred deceased whom it is represented to us is not
capable of supporting himself independently now of the age
of seven years and seven months as nearly as can be
ascertained, as an apprentice to WHITTINGTON RICARDS of
Northwest Fork hundred in the County and State afsd. to
him his executors administrators and assigns for and
during and until the full and time? and term of thirteen
years and five months from the day of this date hence the
said apprentice is to serve the said WHITTINGTON RICARDS
his executors administrators and assigns as an apprentice
for the term aforesaid and no longer. And the
said WHITTINGTON RICARDS for himself his Executors
Administrators and assigns, do hereby contract, covenant
and agree to teach or cause the said apprentice to be
taught the act trade or mystery of Farming to the best of
___ skill, knowledge and ability to well support and
clothe the said apprentice during the time of his
apprenticship and at the regular expiration of the said
term to furnish the said Wm. H. Watkins with two suits of
clothes suitable to his condition and to give him one
years schooling in the time anf forty dollars in cash at
the expiration of the term aforesaid.
In
Witness whereof, the said Wm. O. Redden Justice of the
peace and Isaac Kinder trustee of the poor aforesaid and
the said Whittington Ricards have hereunto in
the presence of each other set their hands and seals
the day and year herein before first written
Wm. O. Redden {seal} Isaac Kinder {seal}
Whittington Ricards {seal}
Signed sealed and delievered in the presence of Edward
Richards---Sussex County.
This Indenture was executed in the presence and with the
approbation of the subscribers a Justice of the peace and
trustee of the poor of Sussex County aforesaid, this
twenty-fifth day of May 1832.
Wm. O. Redden, J.P. Isaac Kinder, T.P.
This Indenture was lodged in the Recorder's office and for
the county of Sussex on the twenty-third day of June
eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
G.A. Ewing, Recorder
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[**William Henry Watkins was the half-brother of Josiah Watkins (my
ancestor); he married Amanda Marie Davis, Josiah's stepdaughter].
William married Amanda Marie DAVIS [842] daughter of William
McKendre DAVIS and Elizabeth J. W. GOWTY, on 22 Dec 1856 in Caroline
Co., MD.
Amanda was born on 8 Nov 1839 in Federalsburg, Caroline Co., MD,
died on 16 Nov 1920 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN, and was buried in
Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
Children from this marriage were:
2 F i. Ruth A. WATKINS [843] was born
in 1857 in Caroline Co., MD, died on 7 Jul 1878 in Tippecanoe Co.,
IN, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
3 F ii. Sallie WATKINS [844] was born about
1859 in Caroline Co., MD and died on an unknown date.
4 F iii. Amanda WATKINS [856] was born on 2 Dec
1860 in Unknown, died on 10 Feb 1861 near Federalsburg, Caroline
Co., MD, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co.,
IN.
(source for death and burial is a tombstone for William and Amanda's
children in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill. Amanda's name might
have been placed on the stone as a memoriam,
she is probably buried in the Caroline County, MD.)
5 F iv. Elizabeth F. WATKINS [1225] was
born on 9 Feb 1862 in Warren Co., IN, died on 17 Aug 1863 in Warren
Co., IN, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co.,
IN.
6 M v. John W. WATKINS [854] was born
on 20 Dec 1863 in Warren Co., IN, died on 28 Feb 1866 in Warren Co.,
IN, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
7 F vi. Laura J. WATKINS [855] was born on
24 Jan 1866 in Warren Co., IN, died on 21 Mar 1866 in Warren Co.,
IN, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
+ 8 F vii. Emma D. WATKINS [845] was born about
1867 in Warren Co., IN and died on 23 Mar 1892 in Green Hill, Warren
Co., IN.
9 F viii. Jessie WATKINS [847] was born in 1869 in
Warren Co., IN and died on 2 Oct 1885 in Warren Co., IN.
+ 10 M ix. William W. WATKINS [848] was
born in Aug 1871 in Warren Co., IN, died in 1940 in Warren Co., IN,
and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
+ 11 M x. Edgar Westfall WATKINS
[849] was born in 1873 in Warren Co., IN, died on 10 Feb 1954 in
Warren Co., IN, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren
Co., IN.
12 M xi. Henry A. WATKINS [850] was born
about 1875 in Warren Co., IN and died on 15 Sep 1893 in Green Hill,
Warren Co., IN.
Second Generation
(Children)
8. Emma D. WATKINS [845] was born about 1867 in Warren Co., IN
and died on 23 Mar 1892 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
Warren
Republican
Warren County, Indiana
April 1, 1892
EMMA DAVIS
The subject of this sketch died March 28d, 1892, at her mother's
home, in Green Hill, Indiana, aged 25 years and 15 days.
Interment occurred in the
Davis Cemetery. Deceased was a wife of James Davis and
daughter of Amanda Watkins. She leaves four little children,
the youngest being 7 months old.
Death, silent and unseen, has entered another home, leaving heavy
clouds of sorrow about the lives of its inmates and making new
deep furrows on
their souls. But the sun light of hope, strengthened by a
steadfast belief in man's immortality, illumes their sorrow and
wins them from despair. I think of
no more beautiful words than these of Mazzine's: "Though our
hearts be heavy with sorrow, let it not be the withering dry
atheistical despair which would
make her sad above, but the pious, loving, consecrated grief
making us better--better loving, more devoted to the truths she
taught, more bound to all
that she loved. Let us do nothing that she would not
approve. Let death be the christening to a renewed
earnestness, to the high, religious belief, to all
the immortal hopes which nourished her angel
soul." A Friend ~
Minneapolis
Journal
Minneapolis, MN
Date of death: May 24, 1937
JAMES M. DAVIS
Funeral services for James M. Davis, 74, 2421 Ninth street south,
who died Friday will be at 2:30 p.m Monday in the
Riverside-Farrington chapel,
Riverside and Twentieth avenues south. Burial will be in
Crystal Lake cemetery. He was born in Troy, Ohio, and had
lived in the city 10 years.
Surviving are his wife, five sons, William, Williamsport, Ind.;
Clarence, Newton, Leonard and Elmond, Minneapolis; five daughters,
Mrs. Albert Olson, Algona, Iowa; Mrs. Myron Seenstrum, Reamer,
Minn.; Mrs. Hugh Salisbury, Mrs. Melvin Smith, Minneapolis;
and Mrs. Walter Notch, Pontiac., Mich.
Another obituary, unknown Minneapolis newspaper.
FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR JAMES M.
DAVIS
Funeral services for James M. Davis, who died Friday at his home,
2421 Ninth st. S., will be conducted Monday at 2:30 p.m. at
Riverside-Farrington memorial chapel.
Mr. Davis, born in Troy, Ohio, had
lived here 10 years. Survivors are his wife; five sons,
Clarence, Newton, Leonard and Elmond, all of Minneapolis, and
William Davis of Williamsport, Ind., and five daughters, Mrs. Hugh
Salisbury, Mrs. Melvin Smith, both of Minneapolis; Mrs. Matt Notch
of Pontiac, Mich.;
Mrs. Myron Stenstrum of Reamer, Minn., and Mrs. Albert Olson of
Algona, Iowa. Burial will be in Crystal Lake cemetery.
Emma married James M. DAVIS [846] on 15 Mar 1885 in Warren Co.,
IN. James was born in 1853 and died in 1937 in
Minneapolis, MN.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 13 M i. William W. DAVIS [4019] was
born on 20 Jan 1886 in Warren Co. , IN.
14 M ii. Clarence DAVIS [4575] was born in
Aug 1888 in Warren Co. , IN and died on an unknown date in
Minnesota?.
15 M iii. Leonard DAVIS
10. William W. WATKINS [848] was born in Aug 1871 in Warren
Co., IN, died in 1940 in Warren Co., IN, and was buried in Davis
Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
William and Rosa Watkins
were living in Marion Co., IN in 1930. His occupation was
carpenter.
William married Rosa D. HOCK [853] on 14 Feb 1897 in
Warren Co., IN. Rosa was born in Jan 1879 in
Indiana, died in 1943 in Warren Co., IN,
and was buried in Davis Cemetery,
Green Hill, Warren Go., IN.
11. Edgar W. WATKINS [849] was born in 1873 in Warren Co., IN,
died on 10 Feb 1954 in Warren Co., IN, and was buried in Davis
Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
Edgar ran a blacksmith shop in Green Hill and can be seen in this photo. (photo is from the book, Green Hill and Medina Township
of Warren County, Indiana; An Historical View, by Vanda
Wilson)
Edgar married Lavinia BIDDLE on 22 Mar 1911 in Warren Co.,
IN. Lavinia was born on 11 May 1888 in Dayton,
Tippecanoe Co., IN and died in Aug 1962 in Warren Co., IN.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 16 F i. Frieda R. WATKINS [1322]
was born on 19 Oct 1911 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN and died on 21
Jan 1987.
17 F ii. Vera H. WATKINS [1411] was born in
1913 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN, died in 1913 in Green Hill,
Warren Co., IN, and was
buried in Davis Cemetery, Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
18 M iii. Paul E. WATKINS
+ 19 F iv. Irma Joy WATKINS
+ 20 F v. Lela N. WATKINS
21 F vi. Georgia WATKINS
+ 22 M vii. Donald WATKINS [1398] was born on 25
Nov 1925 in Green Hill, Warren Co., IN, died on 14 Mar 2002 in
Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN,
and was buried in Tippecanoe Memorial Garden, Tippecanoe Co.,
IN
+ 23 M viii. Robert WATKINS
+ 24 F ix. Bernice WATKINS
25 F x. Barbara WATKINS [1401] was
born on 31 Jul 1928, died in 1933, and was buried in Davis Cemetery,
Green Hill, Warren Co., IN.
Third Generation
(Grandchildren)
13. William W. DAVIS [4019] was born on 20 Jan 1886 in Warren
Co. , IN.
William married Hannah COTTRELL [4545] . Hannah
was born in 1896 in Indiana.
The child from this marriage was:
26 M i. Norman V. DAVIS
16. Frieda R. WATKINS [1322] was born on 19 Oct 1911 in Green
Hill, Warren Co., IN and died on 21 Jan 1987.
Frieda married Charles GAVIN.
The child from this marriage was:
27 F i. Constance WATKINS
19. Irma Joy WATKINS
Irma married Carl J. STRASSER
20. Lela N. WATKINS
Lela married Vernon CARR .
22. Donald WATKINS [1398] was born on 25 Nov 1925 in Green
Hill, Warren Co., IN, died on 14 Mar 2002 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
Co., IN, and was buried
in Tippecanoe Memorial Garden,
Tippecanoe Co..
Lafayette
Journal and Courier
March 15, 2002
Lafayette, Indiana
Donald E. Watkins, 76, of
2949 Harding Rd., died at 8:55 a.m. Thursday, March
14, 2002. He was born in Green Hill on Nov. 25, 1925,
and had lived most of
his life in the Lafayette area. He married Anita C. Hobson
on June 19, 1959,
and she survives.
Mr. Watkins was a construction worker with Laborers and Hod
Carriers Local 274
for more than 20 years, retiring in 1989. He served in the Army
during World
War II and was a member of American Legion Post 492. He enjoyed
gardening,
watching sports and playing cards.
Surviving with his wife are a daughter, Rebecca L. Hale of Dayton;
two
brothers, Paul E. Watkins of West
Lafayette and Robert "Bob" Watkins (wife:
Margaret) of Lafayette; and three sisters, Georgie Watkins of
Lafayette, Irma
Strausser of Kentland and Lela Carr (husband: Vernon "Spud) of
Monticello.
Funeral Notice:
Friends may call at Hippensteel Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m. Sunday.
Service in
Hippensteel Chapel at 10 a.m. Monday, with Gene Muston
officiating. Burial in
Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette. Surviving is 1
granddaughter, Cassie
N. Jordan. Preceded in death by his parents, and 3 sisters, Freda
Gavin,
Barbara Watkins and Bernice Schaffer
Donald married Anita BALIFF
23. Robert WATKINS
Robert married Margaret J. SHRUM
Children from this marriage were:
28 F i. Susan E. WATKINS
29 F ii. Debra L. WATKINS
30 M iii. Steven R. WATKINS
24. Bernice WATKINS
Bernice married Stanley SHAFFER