OBIT: Elias M. WATSON, 1900, Formerly of Quarryville, Lancaster County, PA

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Death of Elias M. Watson

A paper from Beloit, Wis., contained the following marked copy: “A letter from
George Watson announces the death of his father, Elias M. Watson, formerly of
this city, which occurred on Saturday night 12-29-1900, at Omaha. The remains
will be brought to this city for burial on Jan. 2.” 

Elias M. Watson was a former resident of Drumore township, and was the third-son
of Morris and Anna Watson, of the Unicorn.  We [He] was well and favorably known
here for many years, and helped to fill the quota for Uncle Sam’s army three
times—the last time he joined a Maryland Light Artillery and was sent to the
defenses of Washington where he remained until the close of the war. After the
war was over, he married Miss Ruth A. Drennen and then removed with his family
to the west in 1869, and in 1873, he settled in Beloit, Wis.  In 1874, Mr.
Watson lost his wife, but later he married a western lady who still survives
him, also four children, three to the first and one to the second wife. Mr.
Watson was 60 years of age.


Quarryville Sun, Friday, January 18, 1901