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Jesse Watkins

J.J. Watkins
Full Name: Jesse J. Watkins
Birth date: December 25, 1828
Death date: August 31, 1911

Terms of Service

  • House, 18th (1) Legislature
    1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
    Democrat
(1) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Census of 1870 - J.J. Watkins, Nacogdoches County, age 42, born circa 1828 in Tennessee, farmer, wife Laura.
    Census of 1880 - Jesse J. Watkins, Douglass, Nacogdoches County, age 52, born circa 1828 in Tennessee, laborer, wife Laura.
    Census of 1900 - Jassie J. Watkins, Nacogdoches County, age 72, born December 1828 in Tennessee, saw milling, wife Laura. FamilySearch . 1900 1880
  • 1870
  • Jesse J. Watkins, age 82 years, death date 8/31/1911 in Douglass, Nacogdoches County. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
  • Jesse Watkins, birth date 12/25/1828, death date 8/31/1911, burial in Douglass Cemetery, Douglass, Nacogdoches County. Find a Grave .
  • Death notice, "Jesse J. Watkins Dead," 8/31/1911, p. 7. "Jesse J. Watkins, Nacogdoches, Texas . . . served this and Angelina county many years ago two terms in the legislature." Houston Post .
  • Biographical sketch, Jesse J. Watkins, p. 250. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.

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