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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno Evening Gazette
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Description: Mrs. Watson and Her Seven Sons - All Seven Survive the Civil War

Date: August 24 1881

Newspaper published in: Reno, NV

Page/Column: 3/1

Mrs. Watson and Her Seven Sons - All Seven Survive the Civil War

Mrs. Cynthia WATSON, widow of James F. WATSON of Botetourt County, Virginia, who died last week, contributed seven sons to the Confederate army, one of whom followed general PICKETT in the fatal charge at Gettysburg and scaled the enemy’s works, and strangely escaped unhurt. When at the close of the war, after the lapse of four years of carnage and death, answered to his name around the family hearthstone, and this noble woman then and there offered a sincere prayer of thanks that her humble supplications to the divine throne had been heard and answered, and, reverently placing her trembling hands upon the heads of the bronzed veterans she so much loved, exclaimed, “Thank God, we are all here again.”

Submitted: 09/27/08

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