According to his own testimony on an affidavit in his pension files that he was born in Fayette County, Alabama, in 1842.
Private- Company G 50th Alabama Infantry CSA. Enlisted October 15,1861 at Northport, Alabama. He was wounded at Dalton, Georgia. His Military Pension was applied for and received in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. ADAH
Name: A.H. Watson
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Alabama
Regiment: 50th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
Company: G
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Film Number: M374 roll 47
He lost a finger at the Battle of Dalton (Georgia) in 1864. It is unknown whether First Battle of Dalton (February) or Second Battle of Dalton (August). He was "furloughed in March [1865] and was at home when surrender was made".
Amos' work history, like many of his era and geography was not glamorous. It did involve more than simply farming, though. In 1860, his farming father apparently having passed away, he was a 17-year-old laborer on the farm now run by his mother near Northport, Alabama. In 1880, he was still a farm laborer in the same part of Tuscaloosa County.
Things took an interesting turn sometime before 1900, when the family was living on 11th Avenue in Meridian, then the largest city in Mississippi and a Southern hub of manufacturing. While Amos and his wife, both in their upper fifties, had no listed occupation, two of their children were weavers. Based on pension records, it may have been difficult for him to work at this time, and the older children may have been the main breadwinners.
At age 68 in 1910, he was granted a Class 4 Soldiers and Sailors Pension due in part to "old age and blindness". There were previous applications in 1894, 1897, and 1898, but it is unknown whether or not they were approved. According to a 1912 affidavit in his pension files, he had reached 70 years of age and was solely dependent upon his pension for his living; therefore, he was petitioning to be moved from a Class 3 pension to a Class 2 pension.
In 1910, Amos and his wife, Mary, were living in an empty nest back near their family in Tuscaloosa County. He was recorded in the Census that year as performing odd jobs. Mary died in 1914, and Amos followed in 1915. They are buried together in Spencer Hill Cemetery in Tuscaloosa County.
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