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Subject: Re: [OHCLER] WATSON lines
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:53:33 -0400


This is not my Watson line. My John Watson was the son of Zadoc Watson, son of Zedikiah.

In a message dated Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:21:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, carol wilson <> writes:

>June & others,
>   Are any of your WATSON's related to a Constantine Smith WATSON b 10 May
>1832 in Clermont Co?  He married Margaret Jane MC GEE and he was the son of
>Jonathan WATSON and Phoebe Elizabeth SMITH.
>   Constantine was the youngest of children including these WATSON siblings:
>James Smith, Abraham, Sarah, Melinda, Nancy and Mary (Polly),
>all believed to have been born in Clermont Co.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carol Wilson
>Mason, WI
>
>
>At 08:43 AM 6/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>Jacqueline,
>>
>>The cemetery i spoke of is in the town of Neville. It is the IOOF cemetery,
>it has
>>other names.
>>The city fathers not having any brains had it cleaned out with a hedge-hog.
>knocking
>>down stones and generally destroying it. Many of the stones were pushed
>over the
>>embankment. In the 60s Bertha Minnick and i dug many of them out and laid
>them on
>>the bank. The very large stones were still standing. The ones i wanted only
>had foot
>>stone that someone had scraped the initials in.
>>
>>If you think i am angry, i am, still.  Can not believe anyone could be this
>stupid.
>>
>>June
>>Some of my surnames:
>>GELVIN, PRIMMER, HANCOCK, WATSON, METZGER, BOLANDER/BOLENDER Clermont &
>Brown Co.
>>THOMAS, DeWITT, PUTMAN Fayette & Ross Co.
>>
>>
>>Jacqueline Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> June:  was the  Neville cemetery in town?  Reuben Young is buried there and
>>> it says Washington Twsp. Jacqueline
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "B. June Babcock" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 9:39 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [OHCLER] Another family cemetary located.
>>>
>>> > Hermon,
>>> >  Do you have a copy of :Shaking the branches" or know where there is one.
>>> > If memory serves me right, there is a McKibben in the Neville cemetery in
>>> town .
>>> > Related to the Gelvin family
>>> > Thank you, June
>>> >
>>> > HERMON B FAGLEY wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Merrill Bolender,Brownsburg,In,+,Felicity High about '53-54, and son of
>>> > > Herb
>>> > > Bolender,Bolender's Apple Orchard,Bolender Rd,w Felicity in the 1940-50
>>> > > era,
>>> > > was here yesterday. Merrill is author of "Shaking the Branches-a
>>> > > Historical
>>> > > Review of my Linage traced thru the Bolender and Shinkle Families".
>>> > >    Anyway,Merrrill mentioned a small family cemetary on his dad's old
>>> > > farm.
>>> > > In a woods,on uneven land created by at run,in the s w corner of the
>>> > > intersection
>>> > > of Ohio Rt 756,and Bolender Road,west of Felicity,Franklin township,S E
>>> > > Clermont co
>>> > >  are a few tombstones-MCKIBBEN-being the one Merrill remembered. Over a
>>> > > mile
>>> > > south,at the west end of Hopewell Rd,out of Feliciry,lies Hopewell
>>> > > Methodist church's
>>> > > cemetary on the old Hugh McKibben farm.  Hugh's family is buried in
>>> > > Hopewell.
>>> > > Joseph McKibben was 1st elder of Smyrna Presbyterian,Smyrna Rd, east of
>>> > > Felicity.
>>> > > Other McKibben's tombstones were found by the D.A.R. ladies in the
>>> 1950's
>>> > > in Bethel,
>>> > > Laurel,Williamsburg,and other cemetaries,but they missed the cemetary on
>>> > > Bolender's
>>> > > farm. The D.A.R. ladies who copied 10 volumes of Monument Inscriptions
>>> > > [til 1900] in the 1950's were mostly from Williamsburg and Bethel. I'm
>>> > > sure they missed many cemetaries
>>> > > far from home,though they got the churchyards-mostly.
>>> > > I know my mother went with Lanb ,[and Sargent?] researchers to a family
>>> > > cemetary on the hillside west of Felicity-Cedron Rd,in s e Franklin
>>> > > township s e of Felicity a few.
>>> > > Remember,s e Clermont was settled 20 years before monuments could be
>>> > > purchased.
>>> > > It also has pre-historic indian graves at the top pof the river hills
>>> > >
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