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Hardy Watford
1797 – 1878
| Birth | 1797 |
| Death | 1878 |
| Cemetery | Watford-Harris Family Cemetery Oxford , Newton County , Georgia , USA |
| Added by | George S. Ellington on 17 Jan 2009 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33011560 |
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I got this from my cousin Linda Hudson Cherry! My great aunt, Alma Idealia Evans Greer, was born on a farm in Walton County, Georgia in 1890. Her maternal Grandfather was an immigrant by the name of Watford. He came from another country & she wrote all about it in her handwritten book. She quoted her mother (Emma Cornelia Harris Evans) as having said the following: "Grandpa Watford came from another country. In about 1820 he married a Miss Ellington and they bought a piece of land two miles from Oxford, GA. He had a man slave and she had a young woman slave so they all got busy making a home on his land." "...It was a two story house with a fireplace in every room. Their children came close together and they had nine little boys. Another baby was on the way when three of the little boys took diptheria and died. They were buried in a new cemetery three hundred feet behind the kitchen. Grandma grieved so much for the three little boys but she got ready for the new little baby. Well the baby came and it was a little girl and they named her Elizabeth. They had always wanted a little girl so Grandma said, 'While she cannot take my little boys' place, I'm glad to have a daughter.' Elizabeth grew and her six older brothers loved her so much." The story goes on to explain that when the Civil War was upon them all six brothers joined the army. Three of them ended up getting killed in the war. The other three brothers got "gold fever" and were rumored to have taken off to find their fortune in California. This was the last that Alma ever heard about them. She often wondered what happened to them. The "old Watford place" was in Newton County. When Elizabeth Watford died she was buried up there. Her gravemarker reads, "Elizabeth Watford Harris." prairiemomof2
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