Person:Robert Watkins (4)

ROBERT KELSEY WATKINS was born at home on 29 Dec 1910 at Russellville, Putnam County, Indiana. He was a twin to Gertrude. He appeared on the census of 1930 at 803 John St, Mason Township, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana.

He married CATHERINE WEIR on 21 Oct 1933 at the age of 22. He is listed as a Telegraph Messenger in the 1930 census when he was 19. ROBERT KELSEY WATKINS was a Mechanic and Race Car Driver, and a night foreman at International Harvester. One of his cars was used to set speed record for cars of that class at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

He died in Nov 1954 at Speedway, Marion County, Indiana, at age 43, of a Heart Attack.

Bob's Race Car

With Dad and Sister

Watkins Twins 1

Watkins Twins 2

Watkins Twins 3

Watkins Twins & Mother

Twins Gertrude & Robert

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nancy Reichard. Reichard Family History. (Family History, ca 1980).
2. ↑ Lottie Watkins. Watkins Webb Family Record. (Family Record).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Cap Watkins Family Collection: Collected by Gertrude Watkins Reichard. (Obituaries).
   
4. ↑ Nancy Reichard. Webb GED Reichard. (Family History).
5. ↑ United States. Works Progress Administration (Indiana), and Indiana Works Progress Administration. Index to birth records, Putnam County, 1882-1920. (Indianapolis [Indiana]: Indiana State Library, 1983).
   
6. ↑ United States. Bureau of the Census. 15th census, 1930. Indiana, 1930 federal census: population schedules ; NARA microfilm publication T626. (Washington, District of Columbia: Bureau of the Census Micro-Film Laboratory, 199-?)
   1930.

   Crawfordsville, Montgomery, Indiana, United States
   Roll: 620; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 24; Image: 404.0
   Watkins Family Entry

   
7. ↑ of a Heart Attack