Robert Watson and Delilah Spangler

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Husband Robert Watson ¹

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           Born: 4 Apr 1845 - Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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           Died: 12 Jul 1907 2
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         Father: James Watson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susan McConnell (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 31 Jan 1866 1

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Wife Delilah Spangler ¹

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         Father: George Washington Spangler (1824-1908) 3
         Mother: Rebecca Casper (1832-1859) 3

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Children

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1 F Melvina L. Watson ²

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         Spouse: Hiram A. Voorus (1856-      ) 4
           Marr: 1886 5

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2 M Samuel Watson ²

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3 M Delbert D. Watson ²

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4 M Oliver Herman Watson ²

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           Born: Abt 1877
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           Died: Aft 1919
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5 F Linnie Elizabeth Watson ²

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         Spouse: George L. Shaw (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1903 - ? Venango Co, PA

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6 M Lewis Manley Watson ¹

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           Born: 11 Jun 1891 - Shamburg, Oil Creek Twp, Venango County, PA 2
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           Died: Feb 1981 - ? Seneca, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: A. Laura Christie (1889-1968)
           Marr: 1920 - ? Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Watson

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He spent much of his business life as a pumper in the oil fields, and in that capacity he came in 1893 to a lease in Oil Creek Township, Venango County, PA, later operated by his sons, a part of the John Tallman farm. He himself never owned any interest there, but pumped the wells on that farm for H. J. Rowe, of Titusville, until about a year before his death, when his sons O. H. and L. M. Watson took up the work. They acquired the oil rights after their father's death and later purchased the property. It lay in what became known as the Shamburg field, a mile south of the defunct village of Shamburg, once the site of great oil activities, and there he continued in the production of oil until his death.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1037.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1038.

3 Alan R. Jones, Threads of Venango (Indiana, PA: A. G. Halldin Publishing Co., 1984), Pg 326.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1005.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1006.