submitter: Patricia Schiro           email: schiro1@windstream.net


Husband: Thomas Franklin Watkins       
Born: April 30 1856     
Location: Rusk County, Texas 
Married: December 11, 1877  
Location: Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas
Died: February 9, 1919     
Location: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Cemetery: February 10, 1919 
Location: Jewella Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Father: James Ransom Watkins
Mother: Mary Jane Turner
Other Spouses: Mary Melissa Gentry

Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Barfield
Born: August 5, 1858        
Location: Alabama
Died: March 14, 1926        
Location: Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Cemetery:     
Location: Rosedale Cemetery, Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Father: Samuel P. Barfield
Mother: Annie R. M.  Unknown
Other Spouses: None

Children

Name: Maude Watkins
Born: September 9, 1879     
Location: Gregg County, Texas
Died: April 11, 1952     
Location: Longview, Gregg County, Texas
Cemetery:  
Location: Grace Hill Cemetery, Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas 
Spouse 1: Daniel Washington Wood
Married: October 24, 1897  
Location: Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Spouse 2: 
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Name: Frances Belle Watkins
Born:  about 1884     
Location: Gregg County, Texas
Died:      
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Spouse 1: Benjamin F. Phillips
Married: about 1900  
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Name: Thomas Clyde Watkins
Born: July 9 1897     
Location: Bellville, Rusk County, Texas
Died: March 3, 1933     
Location: Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Cemetery: March 5, 1933 
Location: Rosedale Cemetery, Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Spouse 1: Mable  Unknown
Married: about 1915  
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Name: John Ralph Watkins
Born: March 23, 1889     
Location: Bellville, Rusk County, Texas
Died: January 16, 1918     
Location: Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Cemetery:  
Location: Rosedale Cemetery, Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Spouse 1: 
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Comments: Not allot is know about Thomas Franklin Watkins. He was a
farmer and Police Officer in Gregg County, Texas. He and his first wife
Sarah Elizabeth Barfield divorced November 29, 1909. He married my
grandmother, Mary Melissa Gentry.
I would be very interested in corresponding with anyone researching this
Watkins family.

Sources: Family information, census, birth, marriage, divorce, cemetery
records from Gregg & Upshur Counties, Texas.. Also Caddo Parish,
Louisiana records.