Turner Breckenridge Watson

1872 - 1939  (66 years)

• Name	Turner Breckenridge Watson
  Alternate birth	15 May 1871	Grayson County, Texas   [1]
  Birth	15 May 1872	Denton County, Texas   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Feb 1939	Chico, Wise, Texas   [1, 3]
  Burial	Chico Cemetery, Chico, Wise, Texas   [1]
  Person ID	I35130	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Stanton Grainger Watson,   b. 1 Dec 1849, Monroe County, Kentucky d. 14 Oct 1905, Oklahoma (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Martha Ann Brown,   b. 12 Feb 1851, Kentucky d. 28 Feb 1930, Chico, Wise, Texas (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F20646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Ann Flowers,   b. 3 Nov 1876, Arkansas d. 25 Sep 1944, Bridgeport, Wise, Texas (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	10 Aug 1893	Healdton, Carter, Oklahoma
  Children	+ 1. Martha Louise Watson,   b. 27 Jul 1897, Oklahoma d. 27 May 1973, Weatherford, Parker, Texas (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F20645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Mysteriously, his death certificate gives his father as "Wyett S. Watson". His eldest son was named Wyatt Stanton Watson; his father-in-law was named Wyatt; but every other indication aside from the death certificate is that his father was Stanton Grainger Watson. About U.S., Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910, explanation on ancestry.com: In 1906, the U.S. Court of Claims appointed Guion Miller from the Interior Department to determine who was eligible for funds under the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845 between the United States and the Eastern Cherokee. In certifying the eligibility of the Cherokees, Miller used earlier census lists and rolls that had been complied by Hester, Chapman, Drennen, and others between 1835 and 1884. Copies of some of these rolls and the indexes to them are filed with the Guion Miller records and are part of this publication. There are an estimated 90,000 individual applicants from throughout North America included within this publication. From U.S., Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910 (citation details below): Turner B. Watson being duly sworn deposes and says: My name is Turner B. Watson. and I live in Chico, Tex. I am 56 years old. I claim 1/8 Cherokee Indian blood through my father Stanton G. Watson. He died three years ago at the age of 56. He was born in Monroe County, Ky. He came west in 1870. My father got his Indian blood through his mother, a Miss Kilman. I do not know her given name. I reckon I was about 12 years when Miss Kilman died in Ky. She must have been 1/2 Cherokee. She was quite an old lady at the time of her death. My father has often told me that my grandmother, this Miss Kilman was recognized as an Indian, but he never said that she lived with the Indians. She never got any money from the Government on account of her Indian blood. Her neighbors and friends recognized her as being an Indian. T B Watson Subscribed and sworn 15 Sep 1908, at Bridgeport, Texas. Recorded as rejected, 18 Apr 1911. [His brother Edward S. Watson also applied to be recognized as part Cherokee, and was also rejected.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S5846] Find a Grave page for Turner B Watson. [S4652] Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982, on ancestry.com. [S4652] Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982, on ancestry.com., date and county only.