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Felthan H Watson

Male 1902 - 1987  (85 years)


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  • Name Felthan H Watson 
    Birth 1902  St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 16 Apr 1910  St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 8, born MO, living with parents 
    Census 29 Jan 1920  St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 17, born MO, living with parents 
    Census 12 Apr 1930  St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 28, born MO, lawyer in own office, living with father 
    Death 26 Oct 1987  Bethesda, Montgomery, MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12899  Family Tree
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2016 

    Father Andrew Henry Watson,   b. 8 Jul 1868, St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1958, St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Mother Mary Brennan,   b. Jan 1871, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 22 Jan 1914, Calvary Cemetery, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Marriage 1896 
    Family ID F4740  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jeanette Campbell McCormick,   b. 30 May 1914, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, SCOT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4742  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2016 

  • Notes 
    • from "The Washington Post", 28 Oct 1987
      FELTHAN WATSON, 85, a Washington lawyer who was a retired Justice Department trial attorney, died of a heart ailment Oct. 26 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He lived in Bethesda. Mr. Watson was a native of St. Louis and a graduate of St. Louis University and its law school. He practiced law in Missouri before serving as a U.S. government attorney in China from 1934 to 1938. During those years, he helped direct investigations into the sinking by Japanese forces of the USS Panay, a gunboat on the Yangtze River patrol. He then moved here, and was special assistant to the U.S. attorney general before entering the Navy in 1941. His duties during the war included tours as a Navy lawyer and as a gunnery officer aboard the carrier Ranger. In 1946, Mr. Watson joined the Justice Department's office of alien property. He retired as a trial attorney in the general litigation section in 1972. Since then, he had engaged in the private practice of law. Mr. Watson was a member of the Army & Navy Club and the Little Flower Catholic Church in Bethesda. Survivors include his wife, Janet C. Watson of Bethesda, and one sister, Lila Huppert of Okmulgee, Okla.