James WATKINS

1812 - 1901  (88 years)

• Name	James WATKINS
  Birth	23 Dec 1812	Belmont County, Ohio, United States   [1]
  	James Watkins, son of Reuben and Anna (Patterson) Watkins was born in Belmont County, Ohio. He moved to Logan County in 1832 with his parents. Two years later he was married to Obedience Marmon.
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1820	Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States   [2]
  Residence	1830	Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States   [3]
  Misc	24 Sep 1832	Belmont County, Ohio, United States   [4]
  	Granted certificate to Goshen MM
  	Address: Somerset MM
  	'Reuben & wife, Anna, and children, James, Susanna, Joel, Unity and Lucinda, granted certificate to Goshen Monthly Meeting, Ohio.'
  Residence	16 Jun 1900	Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [5]
  	Living in the home of his daughter, Susannah, and her husband, Joel Walker.
  Death	12 Jun 1901	Pierceton, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States   [6]
  	Death record says that he was 88 years, 5 months and 19 days.
  Burial	Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [7]
  	Address: Marmon Valley Cemetery
  Person ID	I3618	Watkins
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	Reuben WATKINS,   b. 13 May 1779, Sussex County, Virginia, United States d. 17 Sep 1835, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Anna PATTERSON,   b. 8 Nov 1779, North Carolina d. 18 Feb 1873, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	6 Nov 1803	Richsquare Meeting, Northampton, North Carolina, United States   [8]
  Residence	1810	Sussex County, Virginia, United States   [9]
  Misc-Fam	21 Sep 1811	Sussex County, Virginia, United States   [10]
  	Transferred
  	'Reuben and wife, Anne, and children, Lemuel, Edwin, Iry, Bennett, & William, removed [presumably from Seacock Particular meeting], [and] granted certificate to Still Water Monthly Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio.'
  Misc-Fam	26 Nov 1811	Belmont County, Ohio, United States   [11]
  	Family received
  	Address: Stillwater Monthly Meeting
  	'Reuben and wife, Anna, and children: Lemuel, Edwin, Iry, Bennet, and William, received on certificate from Gravely Run Monthly Meeting, Va. dated 1811,9,21.' -------------------------- "Friends' Stillwater Meeting House" by Jonathan Schofield Transcribed from "History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties" (Online at http://www.drwilliams.org/iDoc/index.htm?url=http://www.drwilliams.org/iDoc/stillwater.htm" "About one-half of the eastern part of Warren township was originally settled almost exclusively by Friends, commonly called Quakers. They came chiefly from the southern states, many of the pioneers being the heads of young and growing families, were stimulated to the movement by a desire to remove without the blighting influence of human slavery, against which their religious principles required them to bear a consistent testimony, and being unwilling that their children should grow up in the midst of its corrupting influences, they left, in many instances good lands in a genial clime, to set themselves down to a life of privations and hardships incident to pioneer life in the forest north of the Ohio river... In 1811, ... Reuben Watkins, wife and five sons, ..., from Dinwiddie county, Va. "
  Residence	1820	Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States   [2]
  	Farmer
  	Head of household was listed as 'Rubin Wadkins' Census shows: Four males under 10: Bennett, William, James, and Joel Two males 10 and less than 16: Lemuel and Edwin One male 45 and upward: Reuben (actually he would have been 41) Three females under 10: Susanna, Unity and ? One female 26-45: Anna who would have been about 39
  Residence	1830	Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States   [3]
  	He was listed as "Ruben Watkins." Census listed: One male between 5 & 10: ? One male between 10 & 15: Joel (14) Two males between 15 & 20: James (18) and William (20) Four males between 30 & 40: Unclear who these would be One male between 50 & 60: Reuben (51) Two females between 5 & 10: (Perhaps these were grandchildren?) One female between 15 & 20: Unity (13) One female between 30 & 40: (Probably the wife of one of the sons) One female between 50 & 60: Anna (49)
  Misc-Fam	24 Sep 1832	Belmont County, Ohio, United States   [4]
  	Granted certificate to Goshen MM
  	Address: Somerset MM
  	'Reuben & wife, Anna, and children, James, Susanna, Joel, Unity and Lucinda, granted certificate to Goshen Monthly Meeting, Ohio.'
  Family ID	F506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Obedience MARMON,   b. 26 Jan 1811   d. 15 Aug 1881, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1834	Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [12]
  	"Whereas James Watkins of the County of Logan and State of Ohio, son of Reuben Watkins of said county and state and Anna his wife and Obedience Marmon daughter of Samuel Marmon dec'd of county and state aforesaid and Margaret his wife having declared their intentions of Marriage with each other before a monthly meeting of the religious Society of Friends held at Goshen according to the good order used among them and having consent of parents their said proposal of marriage was allowed of by said meeting. Now these are to certify to whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this twentieth day of eighth month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. They the said James Watkins and Obedience Marmon appeared in a public meeting of the said people at Goshen aforesaid. And the said Jame Watkins taking the said Obedience Marmon by the hand did openly declare that he took the said Obedience Marmon to be his wife promising with devine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death should separate them and in this same assembly the said Obedience Marmon did in like manner declare that she took him the said James Watkns to be her husband promising with devine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them and moreover they the said James Watkins and Obedience Marmon she according to the custom of marriage assumng the name of her husband dd as a further confirmation thereof then and there to these presents set their hands. James Watkins Obedience Watkins And we who names are also hereunto subscribed being present at the solemnization of the said marriage and subscription have as witnesses thereto set our hands the day and year above written John W. Ricks William Watkins William Outland Edmund Outland Henry Watkins Martin Marmon Joshua Marmon Periba Reames Martha Ann Watkins Matilda Reames Rebecca Reames Periba Marmon Susannah Watkins Rebecca Patterson Sydney Paxton Anna Watkins Dorothy Marmon Sarah Hunt Zilpah Marmon
  Residence	15 Aug 1850	Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [13]
  	Farmer
  Residence	23 Jun 1860	Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [14]
  	Farmer
  Residence	8 Jun 1870	Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [15]
  	Farmer
  Residence	12 Jun 1880	Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States   [16]
  	Clerk in a grocery
  Children	1. Samuel M. WATKINS,   b. 6 Sep 1835, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 9 Apr 1864, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 28 years)   2. Martin M. WATKINS,   b. 24 Sep 1836, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 8 Dec 1875, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 39 years)   3. Rebecca A. WATKINS,   b. 14 Nov 1842, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 7 Dec 1872, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 30 years)   4. Sarah Ann WATKINS,   b. 11 Sep 1844, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 1903, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States (Age 58 years)   5. Susannah WATKINS,   b. 17 Nov 1847, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 18 May 1905, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 57 years)   6. Pheriba Ann WATKINS,   b. 11 Oct 1849, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 9 Jan 1931, Zanesfield, Logan, Ohio, United States (Age 81 years)   7. Matilda Ann WATKINS,   b. Sep 1850, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 5 Jul 1908, Champaign County, Ohio, United States (Age ~ 57 years)   8. Eliza Jane WATKINS,   b. 2 Aug 1851, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 1913, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 61 years)   9. Edgar J. WATKINS,   b. 23 Mar 1855, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States d. 3 Feb 1928, Logan County, Ohio, United States (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F519	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1820 - Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States Residence - 1830 - Somerset Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States Marriage - 20 Aug 1834 - Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Residence - Farmer - 15 Aug 1850 - Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Residence - Farmer - 23 Jun 1860 - Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Residence - Farmer - 8 Jun 1870 - Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Residence - Clerk in a grocery - 12 Jun 1880 - Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Residence - 16 Jun 1900 - Monroe Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Death - 12 Jun 1901 - Pierceton, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States Burial - Address: Marmon Valley Cemetery - - Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  James Watkins (1812 - 1905) Son of Reuben Watkins and Anna Patterson Watkins Wife of Obedience Marmon Watkins

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] 1930 United States Census, AFN: CB2N-F8. [S128] 1820 United States Federal Census, Somerset Township, Belmont County, Ohio Ancestry page 5 of 7. [S129] 1830 United States Federal Census, Somerset Township, Belmont County, Ohio Ancestry page 5 of 24. [S358] Hinshaw, Volume IV, Somerset MM, Page 598. [S414] T, Monroe Twn, Logan, OH ED 118 Page 8 Dwelling 169. [S165] Death Record, Record of Deaths, Logan County, OH Probate Court Page 422. [S100] Cemetery Record. [S127] James C. Watkins. [S209] 1810 United States Federal Census, Page 23. What is shown on the census is one male and one female each between the ages of 28 thru 44 and four males under 10 years of age. This conforms to the genealogy of the Reuben Watkins family. [S358] Hinshaw, Volume VI, Page 143. [S358] Hinshaw, Volume IV, Stillwater Monthly Meeting, Page 452. [S130] Goshen Monthly Meeting, Book of Marriage Certificates, Goshen MM 1829-1875. [S409] 1850 United States Federal Census, Monroe Twn, Logan, OH Dwelling 157. [S408] 1860 United States Federal Census, Monroe Twn, Logan, OH Page 112 Dwelling 837. [S113] 1870 United States Federal Census, Monroe, Logan, OH Page 8 Dwelling 60. [S416] 1880 United States Federal Census, Monroe Twn, Logan, OH ED 121 Page 16.