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Subject: [INPARKE] Re: BURFORD and WATSON families
Date: 1 Apr 2003 12:09:05 -0700


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History of La Salle County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens : also a condensed History of Illinois, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history.
(Chicago: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1886, 1770 pgs). p. 378; Amassa Watson was born Dec. 1, 1825, in Portage County, Ohio, a son of Stephen and Sabra Watson, native of Rhode Island and Connecticut respectively. When he was six years old his mother died and his father again married. At the age of twelve years he accompanied his father and step-mother to Parke County, Ind., where they lived on a farm for five years, and in 1842 brought a farm in Brookfield Township, La Salle Co., IL, on which they resided until their death. Our subject was reared on a farm and recieved a fair education. He was married Sept. 24, 1848, to Almira Burford, of Parke County, Ind., and of six children born to them, four are living--William, Melinda A., Levi C. and Lewis A. Mr. Watson resided on the homestead farm till 1863 when he moved to Ottawa, Ill, where he was engaged in business till 1865. He then removed to Seneca and for many years was one of the prominent builders of this place, and at the !
same time carried on a rather extensive plaing and grist mill. For the past several years he has spent the winters in Florida, where he has an interest n a large orange grove in Volusia County. He is an enterprising business man and a public-spirited citizen, and he and his wife are both respected members of society. He has served s Trustee of Seneca and also as Assessor and School Direcotr. He is a member of Seneca Lodge, No., 532, F. & A. M. In politics he is a Prohibitionist.

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