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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1839 - 1903 (63 years)
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| Name |
Watkins, John Lewis [1] |
| Title |
Dr. |
| Birth |
27 Oct 1839 |
Caswell County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
37007 |
| Death |
24 Oct 1903 |
Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Burial |
Cedars Cemetery, Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I36286 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
Watkins, Samuel, b. 10 Sep 1800, Halifax County, Virginia d. 22 Sep 1868, Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina (Age 68 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Stamps, Elizabeth Frances, b. 1813, Virginia d. 1898 (Age 85 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
26 Sep 1829 |
Halifax County, Virginia [2] |
| Reference Number |
684758 |
| Notes |
- Virginia Marriages
Name: Samuel Watkins
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Elizabeth F. Stamps
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1829
County: Halifax
State: Virginia
Household Members
Name Age
Samuel Watkins
Elizabeth F. Stamps
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| Family ID |
F12485 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Living |
| Children |
| + | 1. Watkins, Mary Rice, b. 1868, Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 2. Watkins, Maggie Smallwood, b. 20 Feb 1870, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina d. 3 Mar 1950, Danville, Virginia (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F13712 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Civil War soldier who eventually was in charge of the Milton Roller Mills. See: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 561-562 (Article #768, "Descendants of Samuel and Elizabeth Watkins" by Mrs. Mary Singer):
"John Watkins, born in 1839, attended Hampden-Sydney College in Va. and the University of Va., studying medicine. He was a member of the Milton Blues and left with them in 1861 when they became a part of Co. C of the 13th N.C. Regiment of Volunteers. An unverified family story is that he was interning in N.Y. when war was declared and rushed out, leaving a partially used cadaver, and headed South. He served as assistant surgeon and after a year was transferred to the Signal Corps in the same capacity. When mustered out at the War's end, each man received $1.12 1/2 as his last pay. Unable to split a quarter, he and another flipped for that. He lost, but the silver dollar is in the Confederate Museum in Richmond. Another family legend is that John saw so much suffering during the war he did not wish to pursue medicine so became a druggist in New Bern, N.C. and later a buyer on the Durham, N.C. tobacco market, finally returning to Milton to be in charge of Milton Roller Mills.
"John Lewis and Claudia Watkins were parents of two children: Mary Rice, born in Milton in 1868 and Maggie Smallwood, born in 1870 in New Bern, N.C. Maggie married William Baskerville Lewis, a third half cousin by virtue of a mutual great-grandmother. Anna Beaufort Ragland who married first, Robert Lewis and secondly, Thomas Stamps. They eventually settled in Danville, Va., where W. B. Lewis & Sons tobacco Co. remained a family enterprise until his death. They raised to adulthood five children: Claudia Williams Wright (Mrs. Thomas) of Durham, N.C., William Baskerville of S.C., Gordon Ragland of Danville, Va., all deceased, Charles Watkins of Conn. and Warner Meriwether of S.C."
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In the 1870 United States Federal Census he descriped his occupation as: "Druggist."
US City Directories
Name: J L Watkins
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1887
Street address: Peabody St outside W
Residence Place: Durham, North Carolina, USA
Spouse: Claude [Claudia] A Watkins
Publication Title: Durham, North Carolina, City Directory, 1887
Directory of Deceased Physicians
Name: John L. Watkins
Death Date: 24 Oct 1903
Death Place: Milton, NC
Type Practice: Allopath
JAMA Citation: 41:1423
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| Sources |
- Details: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 561-562 (Article #768, "Descendants of Samuel and Elizabeth Watkins" by Mrs. Mary Singer).
- Details: Norcott Family Tree on Ancestry.com (Owner: Norcott197); Accessed 1 July 2010.
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