Elias was born in 1840. He was the son of Morris Watson and Ann Russell. He married Sarah Rockwell in Iowa. [1]
He passed away in 1900. [2]
Source Information Ancestry.com. Iowa, U.S., Marriage Records, 1880-1951 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Iowa Department of Public Health. Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1951. Textual Records. State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.
"California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP71-FF1J : 9 December 2020), Elias M Watson in entry for George Morris Watson, 1931.
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