Tabitha Ann (House) Watson (1846 - 1937)

Born 5 Mar 1846 in Thomasville, Oregon, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Robert King — married 28 Jul 1870 in Howell County, Missouri, USA

Descendants

Died 9 Feb 1937 at age 90 in Birch Tree, Shannon, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Tabitha House was born 4 Mar 1846 in MO (according to her death certificate and her obituary)^[1][2]
Her tombstone says: born 5 Mar 1846 ^[3]
She was the daughter of Hollingsworth House & Milly Thomas

1860 Oregon County, MO, Moore twp^[4]
Halensworth, House - 44, b TN
. . . . Eliza - 19 Mo
. . . . Mary 15 Mo
. . . . Jacob - 11 Mo
. . . . Martha - 9 Mo (b 1851)
. . . . Abraham (m) - 6 MO
. . . . Tabitha (f) - 5 Mo
. . . . Martain (m) - 1 Mo

She married 1st to Robert King, July 28, 1870, Howell County, MO^[5][6]

They had 2 children: William Fletcher (b1873) and Dora
Robert died about 1877

Tabitha married 2nd Samuel Hamsford Watson, 19 Nov 1879 in Highland Township, Oregon County, Missouri by B E H Warren (filed at clerk's office 17 Dec 1879) ^[7]
OR Married Samuel Watson 28 Dec 1879 in King Chapel, Missouri ^[8]

Tabitha and Sam had 8 children.

Sam died in 1925, age 69.
Tabitha died in 1937, age 80.
Both buried Union Hill Cemetery, Oregon County, MO

Tabitha died 9 Feb 1937 in Birch Tree, [Shannon County], Missouri (according to her death certificate and her obituary) ^{[9] [10]}
But her tombstone says she died 9 Jan 1938.

Sources

1. ↑ Missouri Death Certificate No. 13796, 9 February 1937
2. ↑ Tabitha Ann Watson Obituary, newspaper clipping, sent to Ginger R Smith via email, 19 May 2006 by Wanda Watson, wagawa1@charter.net, Yakima, WA
3. ↑ Tabitha Watson Headstone, Union Hill Cemetery, Oregon Co., MO
4. ↑ 1860 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH87-P7Y
5. ↑ Ancestry.com, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 7 March 2012), Robert King & Tabitha House, 28 July 1870, Howell Co., MO; Note: Tabitha was indexed as “Tabetha Couse”
6. ↑ Tabitha Ann Watson Obituary, newspaper clipping, sent to Ginger R Smith via email, 19 May 2006 by Wanda Watson, wagawa1@charter.net, Yakima, WA
7. ↑ Ancestry.com, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 7 March 2012), Samuel H Watson & Tabitha King, 19 Nov 1879, Oregon Co., MO, ; Notes: Tabitha was indexed as "Talitha King."
8. ↑ Tabitha Ann Watson Obituary, newspaper clipping, sent to Ginger R Smith via email, 19 May 2006 by Wanda Watson, wagawa1@charter.net, Yakima, WA
9. ↑ Tabitha Ann Watson Obituary, newspaper clipping, sent to Ginger R Smith via email, 19 May 2006 by Wanda Watson, wagawa1@charter.net, Yakima, WA
10. ↑ Missouri Death Certificates, - https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00013796.PDF