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Lydia Cushman (Lyon) Watson (abt. 1835 - 1898)

Lydia Cushman Watson formerly Lyon
Born about in Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 63 in Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Lydia was born in 1835, in Halifax, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Obadiah Lyon and Sarah Paddock. Lydia's father died in 1846. In 1850 Lydia and her siblings are living with the widow Sarah, in Halifax, Massachusetts.[1]

On 3 July 1860, Lydia married John Watson, the son of William Watson and Margaret Holbrook, in Stoughton, Massachusetts.[2]

In 1880, the family is living in Randolph, Massachusetts. John works in a boot factory.[3]

1880 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John Watson Self Male 45 Massachusetts
Lydia Watson Wife Female 45 Massachusetts
Wm H Watson Son Male 9 Massachusetts
Ellen A Watson Daughter Female 5 Massachusetts

Lydia died 22 January 1898, at age 63 of apoplexy, in Halifax, Massachusetts.[4]



Sources

  1. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD97-4YZ : 22 December 2020), Lydia C Lyon in household of Priam Lyon, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  2. "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHKF-VM4 : 23 October 2020), Lydia E. Lyon in entry for John Watson, 1860.
  3. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHXZ-Z4F : 19 February 2021), Lydia Watson in household of John Watson, Randolph, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 528, sheet 217A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,549.
  4. "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWCX-XQZ : 2 March 2021), Lydia C. Lyon Watson, 22 Jan 1898; citing Halifax, Massachusetts, v 482 p 649, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 961,525.




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