When Charles Eugene Watson was born on 12 April 1882, in Lassen, California, United States, his father, Milton J Watson, was 29 and his mother, Ella Isabel Bassett, was 21. He married Nettie Miller on 16 February 1910, in Coos, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Prosper, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 33 Cunningham, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 19 January 1954, in Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Masonic Cemetery, Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States.