Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Watertown Times Wednesday, 17 April 1963 Widow of JOHN WATSON is Dead Redwood, April 17, - MRS. CAROLINE MARY BAUDER WATSON, 89, partner in the operation of the J. G. WATSON Petroleum company and widow of JOHN G. WATSON, died Tuesday at her home on Pine street. She had been ill with a circulatory condition six weeks. The funeral will be Friday at 9 a.m. at the Quincen funeral home and at 9:30 at St. Francix Xavier church, with Rev. Robert L. Cotter, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Redwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Thursday. Bearers will be EDWARD JARVIS, OTTO and LOWELL FELDER, OLIN SPIES, HOWARD HAX and HAROLD FARGUSON. The only survivor is a daughter, MRS. HAROLD (MARY EMMA) GEORGE, Redwood. Two sons died years ago, one in infancy and another, DONALD, at the age of 8. MRS. WATSON was born in Stone Mills, June 19, 1873, a daughter of WILLIAM P. and FRANCES PALMER BAUDER. The family name had also been spelled BAUTER. She attended school in Rosiere. On Aug. 22, 1894, she was married to JOHN G. WATSON, a native of Redwood, in Brownville. The couple had always made their home on Pine street even while MR. WATSON worked in Syracuse. As a young man, he had been an engineer for the New York Central railroad. He was later foreman for the Brown Lipe and Chapin Tool manufacturing company in Syracuse. Returning to Redwood, MR. WATSON established a whole- sale gasoline and oil business in 1917. He purchased the Dyer hotel, main street, Oct. 8, 1930, and conducted his business in part of the building. After his death April 17, 1933, MRS. WATSON was still a participating partner at the time of her death. She was a member of St. Francis Xavier church. ===========================================================================