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| Page Five-- Watson Roots |
| More Notes on Tom Watson: Eva Hathaway Perkins, a niece by marriage to Tom shared that once back in the twenties- at her father's house- Tom and Alice had come for a visit and was about to sit down to the table to eat....Alice had cooked Lima Beans.... She noticed that Tom was undoing his overalls and she asked, "Tom, what are you doing"? He replied, " I am gonna jump in that bowl of soup and see if I can find a lima bean"! I can imagine the beans were few. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom was born and grew up in Henry County, Al. , a very rural farmland in the South East part of the state. Back then in the 1800's most people were farmers. His father, Julius More Watson had moved to Al. in the late 1850's where he met and married Sarah Parker, daughter of John and Susannah Parker. He had several Watson Cousins who had moved to Henry and surrounding counties who had come from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. His Scottish immigrant forefather's sailed the rough sea of the Atlantic Ocean several generations earlier and settled in the Colony of Maryland and brought with them the ways and customs of their upbringing in Dundee , Scotland... The Watson's were a clannish people and in some ways that still holds true in the Watson Family. The Civil War devastated the economy of the south and in some cases it took generations before most people could get back on track. When agriculture gave way to an Industrial Society people bacame more urban than rural and a whole new way of life came into being. All of we Americans were immigrants at some point and time in our family history. Today, it is more Spanish , Asian, etc...than from Europe and Britain. But our generation is closer to the white men who came and forged out a place, little by little- fighting back not only Indians but the Motherland (England). As in all times in our history - men and women have lost their lives for this freedom we enjoy today. Colonial America was a beautiful story about to begin and all our ancestor's played a part in that beginning. The story goes on... the script will never be finished as long as we are a people, no matter where they come from. They come for freedom which is America! --------------------------------------End------------------------------------------------------- |
| *asterisks beside a name denotes the direct line from James Watson b. 1624 in Scotland to children of Julius More Watson's offspring. |
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