[1299] This person is presumed living.
_____________________
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_Alexander Blaine BROWN _|
| (1808 - 1863) m 1833 |
| |_____________________
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|--Mary Blaine BROWN
| (1847 - 1919)
| _John NEVIN _________+
| | (1776 - 1829) m 1802
|_Elizabeth Finley NEVIN _|
(1811 - 1897) m 1833 |
|_Martha MCCRACKEN ___+
(1779 - 1854) m 1802
[1392] This person is presumed living.
_David NEVIN ________+
| (1782 - 1848) m 1810
_Edwin Henry NEVIN ____|
| (1814 - 1889) m 1837 |
| |_Mary PIERCE ________
| (1791 - 1861) m 1810
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|--Caroline Josephine NEVIN
| (1853 - 1904)
| _____________________
| |
|_Ruth Channing LITTLE _|
(1815 - 1892) m 1837 |
|_____________________
_John REDMAN ________+
| (1667 - 1732)
_Solomon REDMAN _____|
| (1690 - 1749) m 1714|
| |_Mary _______________
|
|
|--Stewart (Stuart) REDMAN
| (1716 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary STEWART _______|
(1680 - ....) m 1714|
|_____________________
[1126] This person is presumed living.
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_William Ezekiel WATKINS _|
| |
| |__
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|--Jesse Jernigan WATKINS
| (1776 - 1837)
| __
| |
|_Betsy JERNIGAN __________|
|
|__
[741]
WATKINS, JESSE (ca. 1776-1837). Jesse Watkins, early Texas settler,physician, and Indian commissioner, the son of William Ezekiel andBetsy (Jernigan) Watkins, was born at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, about1776. He married Mary McCorkle there, and they became the parents ofseven children. Watkins moved to Texas sometime in the early 1830s andwas living in Nacogdoches by 1836. In September 1837 he wascommissioned by Sam Houstonqv to travel to the three forks of theTrinity River in what is now Dallas County to negotiate a treaty withthe Kichai, Caddo, and Tawakoni Indians. Watkins never reached hisdestination. According to his interpreter, Luis S�nchez, he wascaptured and burned at the stake by a band of Cherokees. Two yearslater, at the battle of the Neches,qv Watkins's son-in-law, Capt.Robert W. Smith,qv shot and killed the aged Cherokee Chief Bowlqv asBowl sat on the ground, wounded, following the battle. Smithapparently believed that Bowl had been responsible for hisfather-in-law's death.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, June 6, 1937. Frank W. Johnson, AHistory of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker and E. W.Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt.1916]).
Cecil Harper, Jr.
[742] Killed by Cherokee Indians.
[743] Applied for citizenship in 1835. Entrance Certificate 1835. FirstClass Headright #490.