FEBRUARY FAMILY HISTORY

FEBRUARY BIRTHDAY  (ONLY 1)

ALEXANDER WATSON (JR.)
BORN FEBRUARY 22, 1856

ALEXANDER WAS BORN IN SALT LAKE CITY.  HIS FATHER IS ALEXANDER WATSON WHO WAS NICKNAMED" SANDY "...A REDHEAD MAYBE?  HIS MOTHER IS MARGARET MILLER AND THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN LANARK SCOTLAND.  HIS PARENTS CAME TO UTAH WITH THE PIONEERS AS YOUTH.   ALEXANDER IS GRANDPA DOXEY'S MOTHERS GRANDFATHER. HIS YOUNGER SISTER IS PRESIDENT THOMAS S MONSONS GRANDMOTHER.

 THE ONLY INSIGHT I HAVE INTO ALEXANDER IS HIS FUNERAL SERVICE.  THE SPEAKERS WHO WERE LIFE LONG FRIENDS OF HIS DESCRIBE HIM AS A MAN OF INTEGRITY, HARD WORKING, AND RAISED A" LOVING, SPLENDID FAMILY".  HE WORK ON EXCAVATING THE CANALS AND RAILWAY IN SLAT LAKE.  HE LATER WORKED FOR MANY YEARS IN A STORE.  HEBER J GRANT SPOKE AT HIS FUNERAL.  HE KNEW ALEXANDER ONLY FROM PLAYING BALL WITH HIM BUT SAID,  "HE WAS A MAN, WHO IN HIS SPORT, WAS FULL OF INTEGRITY AND HE WANTED NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH WAS FAIR." 

HEAD STONE I BELIEVE IT IS IN THE
SALT LAKE CITY CEMETARY

ALEXANDER MARRIED ELIZABETH ELEANOR LINNELL. THEY HAD 7 CHILDREN THE OLDEST WHO WAS A SON, ALEXANDER LINNELL WATSON, WAS MY GRANDMA LEONE WATSON DOXEY'S FATHER.