Confederate States Army, Sergeant, Company D, 10th Texas Infantry, enlisted 4/1/1862 at Camp Brazos. Charles Lewis Watson, death date 11/3/1926. Pension File No. 47989, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958.
Ancestry.com .
Charles Lewis Watson, birth date 6/1/1841 in Tennessee, death date 11/3/1926 in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Chas. Lewis Watson, Sr. (1841-1926), burial in Mexia City Cemetery, Limestone County.
Find a Grave .
Obituary, "Col. Watson Is Buried After Home Service: Veteran of War, and Long Time Citizen Laid to Rest," Mexia Weekly Herald, 11/5/1926, p. 1, crediting the Gibbs Memorial Library.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .