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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Mrs. A. B. Watson is Gone
One more of the earliest of Chase
county's settlers answered the last call when Mrs. A. B. Watson passed on last Thursday, March 22nd. From the time that most of the present generation of women of Cottonwood Falls can remember, Auntie Watson,
has been second mother to the young matrons of the town.
She was one of those rare women who was always giving heed to the cares and griefs of other folks. Hardships and griefs had been her school and she had learned lessons which can only be learned through sorrow and privation.
Wherever help was needed you would find her and this was in the days when helpers were few. Wherever there was a broken heart Auntie Watson would be found with the healing sympathy which could come only from one who had had a broken heart of her own. The
boys of forty years ago will remember when her son, Roll, was accidentally killed. If ever there were two broken parents they were Mr. and Mrs. Watson. But the agony of that experience became the solace to many another broken heart. If ever there was a Christian Cottonwood Falls, Auntie Watson was one of them.
Mrs. Watson, with her husband, came to this county among the earliest settlers, in July, 1859. When they came there were only three houses in Cottonwood Falls, two owned by Isaac Alexander and one by A. D. Finley, father of G. E. Finley.
In 1860 Mr. Watson built them a cabin just north of where the Leader office now is. This cabin was 14 by 16 feet and was all in one room. Governor Robinson, the first governor of Kansas, was entertained over night in this one-room home and he was very ardent in his praise of the hospitality of the Watsons.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Watson was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1840. When she was four years old her parents moved to Lee county Iowa. On June 2, 1856 she was married to Aaron B. Watson in Franklin county Iowa. To this union were born six children, two of whom, Mrs. E M Clark of Udall, Kansas and Mrs. C C Clark of Phoenix, Arizona, survive her. Mr. Watson died February 4, 1909.
Mrs. Watson died at Osawatomie, Kansas, Thursday, March 22 and her body was brought back to the home town where she had spent most of her life and where live her friends and was laid to rest in Prairie Grove cemetery beside her husband and among her friends of other years who have gone before. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian church, Monday, March 26.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Mar 22 1923.
by Lorna Marvin
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