submitter: Patricia Schiro           email: schiro1@windstream.net


Husband: Thomas Franklin Watkins       
Born: April 30 1856     
Location: Rusk County, Texas 
Married: about 1909  
Location: Louisiana
Died: February 9, 1919     
Location: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Cemetery: Jewella Cemetery 
Location: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Father: James Ransom Watkins
Mother: Mary Jane Turner
Other Spouses: Sarah Elizabeth Barfield

Wife: #2 Mary Melissa Gentry 
Born: September 16, 1873
Location: Hanging Dog, Cherokee County, North CArolina 
Died: February 25,1964         
Location: Harris County, Texas 
Cemetery: Brookside Memorial Cemetery     
Location: Houston, Harris County, Texas 
Father: William Alexander Gentry 
Mother: Mary L. M. Burgess 
Other Spouses: #1, Wyatt Cardinal Flanagan, #2, Robert Newman Clifton, #3, J. W. Holmes

Children
Name: Theodore Franklin Watkins 
Born: October 30, 1907      
Location: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana 
Died: January 19, 1963      
Location: Wilmington General Hospital, Wilmington,
New Castle County, Delaware 
Cemetery: Gracelawn Memorial Cemetery
Location: Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 
Spouse 1: Augusta H. Unknown 
Married: about 1927   
Location: Texas 
Spouse 2: Mary Elizabeth McFadden 
Married:    Location:

Comments: Would like to correspond with anyone researching the family of
Thomas Franklin Watkins. I have much family information regarding his
second wife, Mary Melissa Gentry. She was my grandmother.

Sources: Family information, birth, marriage, death, census and cemetery
records.