WATSON, Isaac Jason
| Birth Name | WATSON, Isaac Jason [1] |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | more than 62 years |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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| Birth | 1803 | Wilkes Co., GA |
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| Death | after 1865 | TX |
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Parents
| Father | WATSON, Luke |
| Mother | ?, Mary An |
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Families
| Married | Wife | DARNELL, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||
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| Married | Wife | DENT, Louisa | ||||||||||||
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Narrative
Jason Isaac's father died when he was 13, leaving several other younger siblings at home. His inheritance consisted of the "expense of an education."
He won the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery in Wilkes Co. GA, the record of which names him as living in the Hamocks district of that county. That year he evidently sold the land and moved to Alabama, where several other family members had moved.
In the 1830 census Jason Watson is in Marengo Co AL. There are no children in the household, but there is a young man 15-20 years with them, and Jason and his wife are 20 to 30 years old (p 341).
He and his family appeared in Attala Co MS in 1840. Evidently this is where John Jarrett was born in 1834.
The index of land records in Cape Girardeau Co., Missouri, shows Jason listed a few times from 1846 until he sold land early in 1850. There are a couple more Jason Watson deeds from Cape Girardeau Co., MO. One is dated May 1849, just before he moved to Texas in 1850. A book of marriages that took place in Cape Girardeau Co. lists Jason Watson as a Justice of the Peace in the Byrd Township.
He came to Johnston Station, TX in 1850 with his wife and at least three of his children, Epsey, Lucinda, and John (Jarrett), who appear on census records in 1854. Two older daughters, Sarah and Mary Ann also came to Texas with their husbands. Louisa is named with Jason on an early deed in Tarrant Co., but does not appear on 1854 census records. (from Rose-Stroud Family [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.com?op=GET&&db=:1461169&id=I103])
Documentation that I have seen to the contrary (for example, J T Clay's family group sheets, based on family oral history and they 'should' know: she was his great-grandmother after all!), Ada Lucinda Watson would seem to be the Issac Jason WATSON's daughter by Louisa DENT, not Elizabeth DARNELL. Otherwise, all the dates are wrong...
