Brief Life History of Margaret Florence
When Margaret Florence Watson was born on 27 February 1864, in Junction City, Geary, Kansas, United States, her father, John Andrew Watson, was 30 and her mother, Matilda Jane Atkinson, was 28. She married Oscar Lawrence Olson on 3 July 1878, in Morris, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Delavan, Morris, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Liberty Township, Dickinson, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 29 August 1923, in Junction City, Geary, Kansas, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Morris, Kansas, United States.
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- M J Watson in household of J A Watson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Margaret Watson, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Margaret Florence Watson Olson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish: patronymic meaning ‘son of Wat’, a pet form of Walter that was particularly common in Scotland and northern England. See Watt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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