- JOHN G. WATSON, farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Brodhead; born in Chenango
Co., N.Y., in 1822;
- came to Beloit in October, 1846, and to Avon in May, 1849;
he bought forty acres of land in Section 15, on which was a log
house, partly built; this he completed and lived in till 1873,
and improved the land, and then built a new farm residence, with
barns, etc.; he then bought ninety-four and one-half acres more
land, part of it timber, and now owns 134-1/2 acres in all. He
married Sept. 1, 1844, in Greene Co., N.Y., Polly Ann SILLIMAN.
They have no children.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 884.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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