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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
cern, turned his attention to stock-raising early in
1867, and then relinquished the management to his
son-in-law, Capt. Robert Dalzell, who continued to
conduct its vast interests until the dissolution of
the company in 1874. Shortly after, Capt. Dalzell
practically retired from active business and settled
down to enjoy the abundant fruits of an upright,
industrious and successful career.
Few men are better known on the lower RioGrande, none are more respected or beloved.
Open-handed, just and generous, no worthy object
ever appealed to his charity in vain; active in every
movement for the improvement of his section,
trusted, popular and influential, but seeking no
office of emolument, he pursues the even tenor of.
his way, a model citizen, husband and father, and
recognized by all as the ideal type of the courteous
and perfect gentleman.SAMUEL E. WATSON,
CLARKSVILLE.Samuel E. Watson, of Clarksville, one of the
wealthiest and best known planters in Red River
County, Texas, was born on the 21st of June, 1847,
attended a private school at New Orleans, conducted
by C. M. Saunders, a graduate of Harvard
College; took the Harvard course, and completed
his education by graduating from the High School
of Nashville, Tenn., and attendance at Sycamore
Intitute, while that institution was under the presidency
of Prof. Charles D. Lawrence. After
returning home from school he, in 1867, at the
request of his father, proceeded to Red River
County, Texas, where he assumed charge of his
father's plantation, one of the largest in the State.
He has lived upon this property, Pecan Point,
almost continuously since that time.
His parents were Matthew and Rebecca (Allibone)
Watson, the former a native of Rhode
Island and the latter of Cbillicothe, Ohio. His
mother's nephew, Samuel Austin Allibone, is the
well-known compiler and publisher of the "Dictionary
of Authors," a work upon which he and
his wife were engaged for twenty years. His father's
brother, Samuel Watson, was one of the trustees
of the Peabody fund in Tennessee, president of the
Old State Bank of Tennessee, and is now deceased.
Mrs. Rebecca Watson was a niece of Susan Allibone,
of Philadelphia, one of the distinguished
women of that city. A memoir of her life has
been published and widely circulated.
Mr. Matthew Watson about the year 1823 purchased
a stock of $20,000 worth of goods and
moved to Nashville and a few years afterwards, in
1825, married Miss Rebecca Allibone. Their married
life continued for fifty years, Mr. Watson
dying in 1884 and his wife in 1886. Both are buriedat Mt. Olivet, near Nashville. They left two
children: Mrs. Jennie H. LaPice, of St. James
Parish, LX, and S. E. Watson, the subject of this
notice. Mr. Matthew Watson was engaged in the
dry goods business in Nashville, in which he continued
for about ten years. He then helped
organize the Planters Bank of Nashville. Later he
drew $30,000 in a lottery, which fixed him for life.
Just before the Federal troops captured Nashville,
he moved with his family to Landerdale, in St.
James Parish, La., a fine plantation owned by him.
A paternal uncle of our subject served during
part of the war as a soldier in the Twenty-first
Texas Cavalry, commanded by the late lamented
veteran editor, Col. Charles DeMorse,of Clarksville,
and died at Clarksville from an illness brought on
by exposure in the army.
Samuel E. Watson was married to Miss Maggie
Latimer Bagby, daughter of Mr. George Bagby, of
Red River County. They have five children:
Matthew, Jennie, Harry, Samuel, and Maggie.
Mr. Bagby was a paymaster in the Confederate
army and in 1863 went through the Indian Territory
to pay off the soldiers in Arkansas. Returning
he was ambushed and assassinated by Indians.
A party of Confederate soldiers, who greatly loved
him, quietly made their way into the Territory and
captured his murderers and took them to Clarksville,
where the citizens hanged them to a tree near
the town.
Mr. Watson lost his wife January 11, 1886. She
is buried in the cemetery at Clarksville. She was
a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
and a devout, loving and lovable Christian woman.
She was related to Governor Arthur P. Bagby, one
of the early governors of Georgia,
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