Elizabeth Mary Watson
1816 - 1883 (67 years)-
Name Elizabeth Mary Watson Birth 5 Apr 1816 Limerick Co, IRE 
Gender Female Census 17 Aug 1850 Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA
; age 35, born IRECensus 24 Jul 1860 Central, St Louis, MO
; age 40, born IRE, farmerCensus 21 Jun 1870 Central, St Louis, MO
; age 50, born IRE, keeping houseCensus 7 Jun 1880 Central, St Louis, MO
; age 64, born IRE, parents born IRE/IRE, living with daughter's familyDeath 4 May 1883 St Louis, St Louis, MO
Burial 5 May 1883 Calvary Cemetery, St Louis, MO
Person ID I4457 Family Tree Last Modified 30 Jan 2016
Father 
Ringrose Drew Watson, b. 25 Oct 1785, Limerick, IRE d. 18 Jun 1856, Fruit Hill Farm, St Louis, MO (Age 70 years) Mother Frances Mahon, b. 1798, Ireland d. 1872, Fruit Hill Farm, St Louis, MO (Age 74 years) Marriage 15 Mar 1815 Notes - on 1850 census, there is Peter, age 33, born IRE, farmer, in household
Family ID F1255 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thomas L Fitzwilliam, b. 1793, Wexford Co., Ireland d. 29 Aug 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA (Age 60 years) Marriage 13 Jun 1846 Children + 1. Thomas L Fitzwilliam, b. 2 Sep 1847, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA d. 31 Mar 1926, St Louis, St Louis, MO (Age 78 years)2. Frances Anna Fitzwilliam, b. 31 Aug 1849, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA d. Bef 1870 (Age 20 years)+ 3. Elizabeth Mary “Lizzie” Fitzwilliam, b. 16 Sep 1851, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA d. 16 Jul 1941, St Louis, St Louis, MO (Age 89 years)4. Antynette Isadora Fitzwilliam, b. Oct 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA d. Oct 1853, Milliken's Bend, Madison, LA (Age ~ 0 years)Family ID F1264 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Jan 2016
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Notes - At an unknown date Eliza Watson disposed of her property and returned to the home of her parents, Ringrose D. and Frances Mahon Watson, at Fruit Hill, St. Louis County. Her second child, Frances Anna, died in childhood. Eliza was apparently well-to-do with what she inherited from her husband and later on from her parents, and a farm, "Eagle Hill," from an uncle, John Drew Watson. She became an autocratic old lady and her daughter Elizabeth used to tell two stories of her: when she entered a room everyone had to stand up, she would select the chair she preferred and regally seat herself. Also, any publication which arrived at the family home, newspaper or periodical, must be given to her first; she would not read anything that had been opened by another. One obituary calls her a "woman noted ... for her positive spirit." Another reads:
Mrs. Eliza Fitzwilliam, relict of Thomas Fitzwilliam, died at her old homestead, now the residence of Dr. J.J. O'Brien, Friday morning May 4th, 1883 in her 68th year.
Another link is thus broken in the chain of old settlers of this county. Her father, Ringrose J. (sic) Watson, settled upon or near the place on which she died, in 1819, and where she remained up to the time of her marriage with Thos. Fitzwilliam of Milliken's Bend, La., in 1846. After the death of her husband in 1854 she, in company with her children, returned to this county where she spent the remainder of her useful life. She leaves two children, Thomas L. Fitzwilliam and Mrs. Dr. O'Brien, who will ever cherish and revere the sacred teachings of their departed mother. - from "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch", 4 May 1883, pg 5 (newspapers.com)
FITZWILLIAM - On Friday, May 4, at 2:30 a.m., Elizy Mary Fitzwilliam, in her 68th year, relict of the late Thomas Fitzwilliam, of Milliken's Bend, La., and daughter of the late R.D. Watson of St. Louis. Funeral will take place form the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J.J. O'Brien, Fruit Hill, St. Louis county, on Saturday, May 5, at 2:30 p.m.
- At an unknown date Eliza Watson disposed of her property and returned to the home of her parents, Ringrose D. and Frances Mahon Watson, at Fruit Hill, St. Louis County. Her second child, Frances Anna, died in childhood. Eliza was apparently well-to-do with what she inherited from her husband and later on from her parents, and a farm, "Eagle Hill," from an uncle, John Drew Watson. She became an autocratic old lady and her daughter Elizabeth used to tell two stories of her: when she entered a room everyone had to stand up, she would select the chair she preferred and regally seat herself. Also, any publication which arrived at the family home, newspaper or periodical, must be given to her first; she would not read anything that had been opened by another. One obituary calls her a "woman noted ... for her positive spirit." Another reads: