Person:Eber Watson (1)

[GEDCOM form Neil S. Smith] Enlisted on 11 Aug 1812 in Captain Joel Collins' Company of Riflemen, 1 Reg't Ohio Militia

1. ↑ Rogers, Janet Marsden. WATSON, Eber and Phebe THOMPSON, Descendants of. (Sep 1999, imported GEDCOM form Neil S. Smith)
   Eber Watson was born about 1782 in MD. Eber died after 1860. He married Phebe Thompson 31 December 1805 in (Butler), OH. She was born about 1785 in NJ. Phebe died after 1860 ????????? Page 1 note 5: "No death or burial records have been found for Eber and Phoebe. Their son William is buried in nearby Charleston, in the 'Old Charleston Cemetery.' Visited the cemetery in May, 1998. The cemetery is well kept, but I had the feeling ???????.
2. ↑ Rogers, Janet Marsden. WATSON, Eber and Phebe THOMPSON, Descendants of. (Sep 1999, imported GEDCOM form Neil S. Smith)
   Eber Watson was born about 1782 in MD. Eber died after 1860. He married Phebe Thompson 31 December 1805 in (Butler), OH. She was born about 1785 in NJ. Phebe died after 1860 ????????? Page 1 note 5: "No death or burial records have been found for Eber and Phoebe. Their son William is buried in nearby Charleston, in the 'Old Charleston Cemetery.' Visited the cemetery in May, 1998. The cemetery is well kept, but I had the feeling ???????.
3. ↑ A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio With Illustrations and Sketches of itsRepresentative Men and Pioneers, Url: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/093.htm. (Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.)
   Eber Watson is listed as a private in Captain Joel COLLINS’S VOLUNTEER COMPANY OF RIFLEMAN The second war with Great Britain was a very important one to us. Without saying, as do some historians, that England had never given up her hopes of forcing us to come back until after 1815, it is clear that there were many questions upon which, if successful, she could have ordered matters to suit herself. Her fleets could have filled the Northern lakes; Oregon would have been hers, as well as a strip of more than one hundred miles wide running out to the Rocky Mountains ; Maine would have lost her northern frontier, and the Indians would have threatened us for the next quarter of a century. Here, in Butler County, a success to Great Britain meant an army marching down to Cincinnati, and devastation by the Indians all through the western part of Ohio. Happily, we were victorious. The declaration of war was immediately followed by the raising of troops in Cincinnati, Dayton, Franklin, Middletown, and Hamilton. There were at least eight companies from this county, or chiefly from this county, but it is impossible to give a list of them. Their muster-rolls are decaying in some garret, or have before this been used as kindling. The customary term of enlistment was for six months, and several of the later companies embraced men who had been out before. The disastrous experience of the American army at the beginning of the Revolutionary War had not taught our authorities its rightful lesson, and we had again, at the opening of the Rebellion, to be shown that troops enlisted for short periods are of very little value. When some slight experience is gained, their term is up, and it is time to go home again. The best known of those who went out from this county was Joel COLLINS, who had been a soldier in the Indian wars, and was then settled in the township of Oxford. In organizing the militia of the county, previous to the commencement of hostilities with England, two rifle companies were ordered to be made up by voluntary enrollment, one out of the militia residing on the east, the other out of the militia residing on the west side of the Miami River. COLLINS himself enrolled as a private soldier under Captain William ROBESON, who had been elected to command the company on the west side of the river. Captain ROBESON was, however, shortly after promoted to a brigade-major, and the company then chose his lieutenant, John TAYLOR, to be their commander. He died in 1811, and Joel COLLINS was elected his successor. His commission bore date the16th of May, 1812, giving him the rank of captain of a rifle regiment; he was attached to the first battalion, second regiment, third brigade, and first division of Ohio militia. In the Spring of the year 1812, General James FINDLAY, who had command of the third brigade, in preparing to join HULL’S army, sent an order for the two rifle companies in Butler County to parade in the town of Hamilton on a given day, and the company which should have the largest number of volunteers on the ground would have the honor of being taken into the service and attached to FINDLAY’S regiment. General FINDLAY acted in the capacity of a colonel in the expedition, under General HULL. Unfortunately for Captain COLLINS, as he thought at the time, many of his men were prevented from appearing, being unable to cross the streams of water, that day flooded by the torrents of rain which had fallen the night previous, and Captain John ROBINSON, who resided on Dick’s Creek, Lemon Township, who commanded the other rifle company, received the appointment. Thus a kind providence permitted Captain COLLINS and his men to escape the disaster by which the first army of the North was overtaken. They, however, held themselves in readiness for the next call. It was determined, in the course of the Summer, to furnish the army on the northern frontier with an additional number of troops from Ohio. The counties of Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, and Butler were to make up one battalion, the counties farther north to make up another, the two to compose one regiment. Early in August he received orders to march with his company to the town of Lebanon, in the county of Warren, the place appointed for the rendezvous of the troops from the counties first named. Accordingly he gave notice to the men composing the rifle company to parade in Hamilton on the tenth day of August, 1812, and a company ninety-two strong, including officers, was on the ground that day, a muster-roll of which was then made out, and was in his possession for many years. It is as follows : .
4. ↑ Compiler: Neil S Smith. Neil Smith's Missouri/Virginia Family, Location: Ancestry World Tree, Url: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi question op=GET&db=smithns&id=I79. (02 Aug 2004)
   end date of 11 Feb 1813 comes from here.
5. ↑ McBride, James, 1788-1859. Pioneer biography : sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio. (R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1869-1871, 2 vols.).
6. ↑ Compiler: Lori Case <rchswebmaster@loricase.com>. Lori's Ripley County, Indiana Genealogical Data page, Url: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inripchs/links.html. (10 Jan 2006)
   First Land Owners of Ripley County listing shows WATSON, Eber purchased land 27 Oct 1818. Page 36 in Tract Book 1.
7. ↑ 1820 IN, Ripley County, Eber Watson household, Record Type: 6th US Population Census, Record Info: no twp, Pg 48, Film: M33 15.
8. ↑ 1830 IN, Ripley County, Eber Watson household, Record Type: 7th US Population Census, Record Info: Pg 4, Film: M19 32.
9. ↑ 1840 IN, Ripley County, Eber Watson household, Record Type: 6th US Population Census, Record Info: Jackson Twp, pg 125, Film: M704 92.
10. ↑ 1850 Lee County, Iowa, Eber Watson, Sr. household, Record Type: 7th US Population Census, Record Info: District 29, pg 457, Film: M432_186.
11. ↑ because he was no longer living with son William in 1870
12. ↑ Eber Watson is listed as a private in Captain Joel COLLINS’S Volunteer Company of Rifleman.
13. ↑ from Butler County, Ohio
14. ↑ the database "First Land Owners of Ripley County" shows an Eber Watson purchased land 27 Oct 1818. Tract Book 1, page 36.
15. ↑ Eber Watson Males: 1 <10, 1 10<16, 1 26<45 Females: 3 <10, 1 10<16, 1 26<45
16. ↑ Eber Watson Males: 2 <5, 2 5<10, 1 40<50 Females: 1 <5, 1 5<10, 1 10<15, 1 15<20, 1 40<50
    
17. ↑ Males: 2 5<10, 1 10<15, 1 15<20, 1 50<60
    Females: 1 10<15, 1 50<60
18. ↑ real estate valued at $100