Notes for: Nancy Nutter
There is some question as to the date and place of birth of this William M. Watson. Age 45 given at time of 1860 Census would put birth in about 1815, while age given for the 1870 and 1880 Census would put birth ca 1819. Age 53 given at time of his second marriage, in Sep 1871, would put birth ca 1818. Age 72 given at the time of his death in Feb 1890 would put birth ca 1817 or 1818. His place of birth is given as Harrison County in the record of his second marriage, but as Mercer County in his death record. Harrison County would seem more likely.
1850 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumeratd on Jul 23 1850:
William Watson, 31, farmer; Nancy, 30; Malinda, 8; Sarah, 6; Juliet, 4; Martha, 1; Mary, 1.
(Note: The adjoining household reported was that of John G. Hart & his wife Malinda Ann Nutter, sister of William's wife Nancy. Ninety-six years later, in August 1946, William & Nancy Watson's great-grandson, Armand Leon Brown, married Geneva Pauline Gaston, the great-granddaughter of John & Malinda Hart.)
1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia):
William Watson, 45, farmer; Nancy, 40; M. A. (female), 18; S. (female), 16; J. (female), 14; Martha, 11; Mary, 11; Jane, 9; Loyd, 8; Marion, 2.
Nancy (Nutter) Watson died on June 29, 1869.
1870 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest Twp):
William Watson, 51, farmer; Nancy J, 18; William L, 15; Francis M, 12; Amanda V, 9; William E. Crichfield, 5.
(Note: William E. Critchfield was the grandson of William & Nancy Nutter Watson. His father, also named William E. Critchfield, had died in the Civil War in Aug 1864 a month before he was born, and his mother, Malinda Ann Watson Critchfield, had remarried John William Wyatt in Pennsylvania in 1866.)
The widower William Watson remarried widow Ellen J. (Stinespring) Leggett on Sep 25 1871.
1880 Census, Roane Co, WV (Spencer District), enumerated in June 1880:
William Watson, 61, farmer; wife Ellen J, 50; dau Amanda V, 19; granddau Eva I (?), 7.