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Elizabeth Mary Watson

Female 1816 - 1883  (67 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth Mary Watson 
    Birth 5 Apr 1816  Limerick Co, IRE Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Census 17 Aug 1850  Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 35, born IRE 
    Census 24 Jul 1860  Central, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 40, born IRE, farmer 
    Census 21 Jun 1870  Central, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 50, born IRE, keeping house 
    Census 7 Jun 1880  Central, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 64, born IRE, parents born IRE/IRE, living with daughter's family 
    Death 4 May 1883  St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 5 May 1883  Calvary Cemetery, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4457  Family Tree
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2016 

    Father Ringrose Drew Watson,   b. 25 Oct 1785, Limerick, IRE Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1856, Fruit Hill Farm, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Frances Mahon,   b. 1798, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1872, Fruit Hill Farm, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 15 Mar 1815 
    Notes 
    • on 1850 census, there is Peter, age 33, born IRE, farmer, in household
    Family ID F1255  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas L Fitzwilliam,   b. 1793, Wexford Co., Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Aug 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jun 1846 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas L Fitzwilliam,   b. 2 Sep 1847, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1926, St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     2. Frances Anna Fitzwilliam,   b. 31 Aug 1849, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1870 (Age 20 years)
    +3. Elizabeth Mary “Lizzie” Fitzwilliam,   b. 16 Sep 1851, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jul 1941, St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     4. Antynette Isadora Fitzwilliam,   b. Oct 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F1264  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2016 

  • Notes 
    • At an unknown date Eliza Watson disposed of her property and returned to the home of her parents, Ringrose D. and Frances Mahon Watson, at Fruit Hill, St. Louis County. Her second child, Frances Anna, died in childhood. Eliza was apparently well-to-do with what she inherited from her husband and later on from her parents, and a farm, "Eagle Hill," from an uncle, John Drew Watson. She became an autocratic old lady and her daughter Elizabeth used to tell two stories of her: when she entered a room everyone had to stand up, she would select the chair she preferred and regally seat herself. Also, any publication which arrived at the family home, newspaper or periodical, must be given to her first; she would not read anything that had been opened by another. One obituary calls her a "woman noted ... for her positive spirit." Another reads:

      Mrs. Eliza Fitzwilliam, relict of Thomas Fitzwilliam, died at her old homestead, now the residence of Dr. J.J. O'Brien, Friday morning May 4th, 1883 in her 68th year.

      Another link is thus broken in the chain of old settlers of this county. Her father, Ringrose J. (sic) Watson, settled upon or near the place on which she died, in 1819, and where she remained up to the time of her marriage with Thos. Fitzwilliam of Milliken's Bend, La., in 1846. After the death of her husband in 1854 she, in company with her children, returned to this county where she spent the remainder of her useful life. She leaves two children, Thomas L. Fitzwilliam and Mrs. Dr. O'Brien, who will ever cherish and revere the sacred teachings of their departed mother.
    • from "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch", 4 May 1883, pg 5 (newspapers.com)
      FITZWILLIAM - On Friday, May 4, at 2:30 a.m., Elizy Mary Fitzwilliam, in her 68th year, relict of the late Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Milliken's Bend, La., and daughter of the late R.D. Watson of St. Louis. Funeral will take place form the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J.J. O'Brien, Fruit Hill, St. Louis county, on Saturday, May 5, at 2:30 p.m.