Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Watson, Cornelius Aaron May 12, 1929
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Daily Local News, May 13, 1929
Daily Local News, May 13, 1929
C. Aaron Watson 
Yesterday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock, C. Aaron Watson of 608 South Church 
Street, this place, passed away in the 68th year of his age.  For the past 
seven years he had been an invalid, having suffered a paralytic stroke at that 
time.  
He was a son of the late Cornelius and Mary Watson, and for many years was a 
farmer of Oxford and later Landenberg.  This farm he sold at that time of his 
moving here, seven years ago.  He married twice, his first wife being Miss 
Anna Shockley, the second Mrs. Anna Kirkpatrick, who survives him.
Three sons died in infancy, and there are ten daughters surviving; Iva, wife 
of Howard Pyle, of West Chester; Ida, wife of Calvin Riggins; Lelia, wife of 
Rene Bassett, of Norristown; Anna, wife of Charles P. Rigg, of this place; 
Elma, wife of Calvin Bostelle; Ethel, wife of Geo. Harmon; Elsie, wife of John 
Stauffer, Wallingford; Margaret, wife of Richard Weller, or West Grove, 
Bessie, wife of Peter Morris, this place; Alice, at home.  There are twenty 
grandchildren.  One brother, B. Riley Watson, of Oxford, also survives.  Five 
sisters, who live in Delaware, also survive.
Daily Local News, May 14, 1929
WATSON- In West Chester, on May 12, C. Aaron Watson, in the 68th year of his 
age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral 
from the Hicks Funeral Home, 130 West Market St., West Chester, on Wednesday, 
May 15th, at 2 p.m. D.S.T.  Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington.  
Friends may call on Tuesday evening. 
Daily Local News, May 16, 1929
Funeral services for the late C. Aaron Watson were held at 2 o’clock yesterday 
afternoon from the Hicks Funeral Home, 130 West Market Street.  There was a 
large attendance of relatives and friends and many beautiful flowers.  The 
services were in charge of Rev. N. Barton Masters, pastor of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of this place.  Mrs. Isaac Fetters sang two selections in 
beautiful voice.
Pall bearers were:  Howard Pyle, Richard Weller, Calvin Bostelle, Lewis 
Stroud, George Harmon and Howard Austin.  Interment was made in Riverview 
Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.


Additional Comments:
Second Wife, Anna Foster Watson's tombstone available at Greenmount Cemetery, 
Chester County, West Chester, Pa.  File manager: please post in Wilmington 
Delaware.

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