Emma Watkins Harmon was the daughter of my ancestors Josiah and Elizabeth
(Gowty) Watkins. Would like to hear from descendants of William and
Elizabeth Watkins Harmon.
I am also a descendant of Thomas McGahan, grandfather of George McGahan
mentioned below as husband of Mary J. Harmon. Thomas' daughter Jane married
my ancestor Nathaniel Lemming.
History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties,
Vol. 1, pp. 422-423; 1899
WILLIAM HARMON
One of the most prominent farmers and stock-raisers in Medina township,
Warren county, William Harmon, was born on the farm where he now resides,
July 27, 1857, a son of Abraham A. and Elizabeth D. (Dawson) Harmon, the
former a native of Ohio, where he resided until he came to Indiana, first
locating in Liberty township. After working there on a farm by the month for
several years, he purchased, in the early '50's, the farm on which our
subject now resides, and where he died November 26, 1874. To him and wife
were born five children as follows: Mary J., wife of George McGahan, a
prominent farmer of Medina township; Edna who married Beatrice Munson;
Martha J., deceased; Eunice, wife of Simon Thompson; and William, our
subject. At the time of his death Mr. Harmon had six hundred and forty acres
of well improved land, three hundred of which were in Medina township and
two hundred and forty in Warren township, but all comprising one farm. Mr.
Harmon was a self-made and a successful man. Mrs. Harmon died in 1887, aged
sixty-eight.
Our subject worked on the farm with his father until the latter's death,
when he took entire charge of the property on which he has since made his
home. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Watkins, who was born
in Maryland, October 7, 1853, a daughter of Josiah Watkins, who emigrated to
Indiana when Mrs. Harmon was a small child. Five children have been born to
our subject and his wife: Abraham, Lizzie, Oscar, Wilbur, and Alta, all of
whom are living and reside with their parents.
Mr. Harmon owns one of the finest and best-improved farms in Medina
township, consisting of six hundred and ninety-five acres, fifty-five acres
of which is in Warren township. He handles the finest breed of short-horn
cattle, sheep and hogs, which he feed and ships to market. His place is
located between Green Hill and Independence, one and a half miles west and
one mile south of the former town. In politics Mr. Harmon is a stanch
Republican..