According to descendant Lois Gunning: William was a Middlebury College man. The family was originally fairly well-to-do, as William did stay at Fort Ticonderoga a short time, where one of his children was born. He bought land in Chilson (a small hamlet outside Ticonderoga) and had a beautiful farm (my grandfather told me) and raised what "Pa" called "blooded horses" and shipped them to Boston. He was 10 years older than his wife, Clarissa Jenks, who was from the Ticonderoga area.
William Watson must have moved to Chilson soon after the Civil War or thereabouts. He had a beautiful farm there according to my grandfather, Fred Goodnow Hunsdon, son of Franklin Frederick Hunsdon. William produced many pounds of maple sugar, raised turkeys, ducks, chickens and cattle. The long table was always loaded with good things to eat. My grandfather said that William would come to get the different families to take them to his house for Thanksgiving. It was a large house with 6 rooms downstairs, and lovely flowers grew by the back door.
Obituary: Ticonderoga Sentinel - William Watson passed away suddenly on October 6, 1892 after a short but severe illness.
William Watson must have moved to Chilson soon after the Civil War or thereabouts. He had a beautiful farm there according to my grandfather, Fred Goodnow Hunsdon, son of Franklin Frederick Hunsdon. William produced many pounds of maple sugar, raised turkeys, ducks, chickens and cattle. The long table was always loaded with good things to eat. My grandfather said that William would come to get the different families to take them to his house for Thanksgiving. It was a large house with 6 rooms downstairs, and lovely flowers grew by the back door.
Obituary: Ticonderoga Sentinel - William Watson passed away suddenly on October 6, 1892 after a short but severe illness.
According to descendant Lois Gunning: William was a Middlebury College man. The family was originally fairly well-to-do, as William did stay at Fort Ticonderoga a short time, where one of his children was born. He bought land in Chilson (a small hamlet outside Ticonderoga) and had a beautiful farm (my grandfather told me) and raised what "Pa" called "blooded horses" and shipped them to Boston. He was 10 years older than his wife, Clarissa Jenks, who was from the Ticonderoga area.
William Watson must have moved to Chilson soon after the Civil War or thereabouts. He had a beautiful farm there according to my grandfather, Fred Goodnow Hunsdon, son of Franklin Frederick Hunsdon. William produced many pounds of maple sugar, raised turkeys, ducks, chickens and cattle. The long table was always loaded with good things to eat. My grandfather said that William would come to get the different families to take them to his house for Thanksgiving. It was a large house with 6 rooms downstairs, and lovely flowers grew by the back door.
Obituary: Ticonderoga Sentinel - William Watson passed away suddenly on October 6, 1892 after a short but severe illness.
William Watson must have moved to Chilson soon after the Civil War or thereabouts. He had a beautiful farm there according to my grandfather, Fred Goodnow Hunsdon, son of Franklin Frederick Hunsdon. William produced many pounds of maple sugar, raised turkeys, ducks, chickens and cattle. The long table was always loaded with good things to eat. My grandfather said that William would come to get the different families to take them to his house for Thanksgiving. It was a large house with 6 rooms downstairs, and lovely flowers grew by the back door.
Obituary: Ticonderoga Sentinel - William Watson passed away suddenly on October 6, 1892 after a short but severe illness.
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