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My Watsons were in Vigo county and my GGG grandmother was a civil war nurse there. Her
maiden name was Watson. Obit gives parents as William P Watson and Mary G Pickering. Their
children were born in Henderson Co., KY. They came to Parke Co. IN and later in Vigo Co.
William supposedly died young and Mary remarries to a Nathaniel Benson. The daughter, my
distant grandmother was Leonora Watson. She first married Levi Smith in Parke Co., IN.
They divorced around the time of the civil war and she remarried in TN to a Phemister. She
returned to Terre Haute and remarried to a Wright. She died in Terre Haute as did her
mother. Leonoras obit gave her as being buried at Arlington National Cem. I have found
that since then. Mary G and another son Richard are both buried in Terre Haute IN. If
anyone knows anything about Leonora and Levi Smith daughter Mary F Hobson I would
appreciate info. Mary lived in Terre Hayte too and had a daughter by Samuel Hobson. I find
nothing more on the dau!
ghter, but have Mary F Hobson obit saying she was taken to Chicago to be buried (She had
a half-sister living there).Daughter assumably dead by then.
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