{"id":1720,"date":"2012-07-30T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltoncountyheritage.org\/wp\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-07-30T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:46:05","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-october-12-1939-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-october-12-1939-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald &#8211; October 12, 1939 &#8211; Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1939 Oct 12 &#8211; Mrs Octavia A <strong>Watson<\/strong> died at her home in DeFuniak , Oct 7 1939, at the advanced age of<\/p>\n<p>88 yrs and 6 days. Survived by her sons: Wm H Watson of Pensacola; John F of Walla Walla,<\/p>\n<p>Washington; Edward P of Long Beach, California; daughter Mrs Colletta W Ellenberg of this<\/p>\n<p>place; 2 gr sons, Lt Wm H Jr of US Navy, James B of Pensacola, 2 gr daughters Mrs Lewis<\/p>\n<p>Rogers of Gainesville and Miss Frances Ellenberg of DeFuniak.\u00a0 Mrs Watson was born October<\/p>\n<p>1, 1851 in Dale Co, Ala, the eldest child of Timothy Wade <strong>Bludworth<\/strong>, a native of N C and<\/p>\n<p>Hester <strong>Brigban<\/strong>, his wife a native of Marion Co, SC. Her father was a CW soldier and died at<\/p>\n<p>Richmond, Va in Nov 1864 and is buried in Howard Grove cemetery in Richmond.\u00a0 She<\/p>\n<p>was married to John William Watson a native of Georgia on March 11 1878.\u00a0 Her husband<\/p>\n<p>was killed near the head of Choctawhatchee Bay on Jan 4 1880 in the explosion of the steam-<\/p>\n<p>boat C Fisher of which he was the master.\u00a0 Internment was Sunday at Hatcher Cemetery be-<\/p>\n<p>side her husband. ( long story)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1939 Oct 12 &#8211; Mrs Octavia A Watson died at her home in DeFuniak , Oct 7 1939, at the advanced age of 88 yrs and 6 days. Survived by her sons: Wm H Watson of Pensacola; John F of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-october-12-1939-obituary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,10],"tags":[1369],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1939-10-october","category-deaths","tag-mrs-octavia-a-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}