Display Patriot - P-314609 - Evan Thomas WATSON

Evan Thomas WATSON

SAR Patriot #: P-314609

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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A132399

Birth: 15 Jun 1759 / Alblemarle / VA
Death: 15 Jun 1834 / Bowie / TX

Qualifying Service Description:

Enlisted Sept 1777, Captain Robert Harris' VA Company
Enlisted fall 1778, Captain Mark Leet's VA Company
May 1781, Captain John Martins's Company
1781, Captain Benjamin Harris' Company
Sept 1781, Captain John Miller's Company
At Yorktown Surrender of Cornwallis.

Additional References:

Rev War pension S 30770

Spouse: Lucy Coleman
Children: Lucy;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1998-08-17	TX	1557	Maxwell Herring Jr (147552)	Coleman

Burial:

Center Ridge Cemetery_(C-0379285)

Location:

Maud / Bowie / TX / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

634313

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

33.319560 / -94.345888

Find A Grave Memorial #:

203755383

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

1 Jun 2024

Comments:

Image taken and provided with permission from compatriot William Watts (TX) member 190516.
One of fifty-nine Revolutionary War veterans buried in Texas. He is the only known veteran buried in Bowie County
Death was recorded on 15 June 1834 at Miller County, Arkansas. He wasburied in the Wright Family Cemetery. When Texas became a State a large part of Miller County became Bowie County, Texas. The Wright Family Cemetery was on the land that was annexed by Texas.
Marker is a cenotaph. Marker coordinates are at the cenotaph.
Actual burial site is unknown.Cemetery now under Lake Wright Patman

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Take Hwy 67 W to Maud, TX take second set of railroad tracks turn by the old Braley's drug store and go down past the school and it is on the right. The cemetery is located on Hwy 8, across from FM 2624.

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: James Edward Mitchell
Evan T. Watson from his residence was initially mustered by draft lottery on Sept 1, 1777 into an Albemarle County company of the Virginia (7th) VA militia rgt., commanded by General Thomas Nelson, Jr. His Captain was Robert Harris and the Lieut was Ralph Rogers; the company marched from Richmond to guard Williamsburg, Little York and Hampton prior to the end of his 1st two month campaign tour of military duty.

During the fall months of 1778 (Private) Watson was drafted for a 2nd campaign tour into Captain Mark Leek’s Albemarle County company and ordered to march to Cabin Point, where they joined under command of General Benjamin Lincoln for forty days before his discharge and return home.

In May 1781, Watson re-enlisted for a 3rd tour of duty from Albemarle County in a company commanded by Captain John Martin; LieutColonel Holt Richardson (7th) VA Rgt., Major General Lawson’ s Bgde., under Governor Thomas Nelson, Jr. His Albemarle County company was ordered to march north toward Culpeper and the Rappahannock (south fork) at Raccoon Ford to rendezvous with Generals Wayne and Marquis de Lafayette outmaneuvering British army and Lord Cornwallis. The rgt was ordered to accompany General Thomas Nelson, who had become Governor, to Staunton where the Legislature had been relocated to avoid capture by Lord Cornwallis’s British army. Governor Nelson was escorted to Charlottesville where the Legislature had relocated, when his two month term ended and he was discharged.

That same month, several days after his 3rd tour ended, Watson was drafted for his 4th campaign tour in Captain Benjamin Harris’ company as a substitute for John Martin of Albemarle County. He re-joined the Colonel Richardson’s (7th) VA militia rgt below Richmond to march with the main American army to Williamsburg, stopping for several days at several locations including Chickahominy to defend the capital of Richmond. He was discharged after serving two month and three days service.

Immediately after the expiration of his last tour, Watson was drafted to serve a 5th campaign tour in Captain John Miller’s company of Colonel Richardson’s rgt., and the company was marched to defend Yorktown, Virginia during the siege that officially ended on Oct 21, 1781 with the surrender of Cornwallis’s British army.

By 1796, Warren County, KY was formed from a section of Logan County, named after General Joseph Warren of the Massachusetts New England militia, who dispatched riders William Dawes and Paul Revere on The Middlesex Alarm ride Apr 18-19, 1775 to warn Colonel James Barrett at Concord that the British were coming.

Evan had received Warrants for Land in Kentucky, granted for service in the Revolutionary War. During late August 1833, Evan T. Watson [now age 74, on January 11, (1832)] appeared at Court in Warren County, KY and gave his declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension for his military service in the Revolutionary War. A pension S.30770 was granted, Evan T. Watson after a review was conducted by the (1833) “Commissioner of Pensions” renamed, Bureau of Pensions within the War Department, WDC. For details, see: http://revwarapps.org/

At age 75, Evan Thomas Watson’s death was recorded on 15 June 1834 at Miller County, Arkansas. During 2017-18, a RevWar memorial marker is planned by Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR ) member #928855 for Bowie County, Texas, with permission from the Texarkana, Red Lick Independent School District mapped at N. Farm to Market Road 2148.

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