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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Watson, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born
February 26, 11^29, died in St. Louis, ^lis-
souri, March 15, 1S96; children: a. John
Thomas, Jr., born November 2, 1859; b.
Frank A., born January 17, 1861, died Au-
gust 30, 1 861 ; c. Harry Alexander, born
December 8, 1863, died August 20, 1907. ii.
John Thomas Guy, born October 17, 1842,
died in 1845. ii'- Frances Anna, born April
16, 1846; married, December 2},, 1874, Ever-
ett Shepherdson Brooks, of Madisonville,
Kentucky ; children : a. Elgin Shepherdson,
born February 6, 1876, married, June 3,
1908, Grace Armour and they have two chil-
dren : Shepherdson Armour and Virginia
Frances ; b. a daughter, born April 30, 1880.
died shortly afterward, c. Everett Watson,
born September 10. 188 1, married, April 6,
1904, Beulah Ray O'Hara, one child, Ever-
ett Watson, Jr., born October 18, 1907. d.
Van Houten, born September 24, 1886. 2.
Charles Henry, born May 5, 181 2, died No-
vember 17, 1853, in St. Charles, Missouri;
married, October 18, 1835, in Virginia,
Emily Ann Smith ; children : i. Emily Mar-
low, widow, now living in Pasadena, Cali-
fornia, and her children are : Arthur Alar-
low, prominent in banking business in He-
lena, Montana, Lee Marlow, of San Fran-
cisco, and Emily and Louise IMarlow, re-
siding in Pasadena, California, ii. Charles
Arthur, married Julia Chaumesero, of
Havre, Montana, formerly of Chicago, who
became very influential in Montana, going
there at the commencement of the civil war,
became very prominent in government, and
railroad affairs, and died about 1895 in New
York, after returning from a Mediterranean
trip ; he left a son, Charles Chaumesero. iii.
Julia, who married Edwin M. Thompson,
of Palmyra, Missouri, both deceased; left a
son and daughter in Alontana. iv. Henri-
etta. 3. Elizabeth, born May 12, 1814; mar-
ried, before 1830, Richard Farr, and had
sons: Guy. now of Lamar, Missouri, Sam-
uel, Richard ; Mrs. Farr died in Calloway
county, Missouri, about 1875. 4. Sallie,
born January 7, 1817, died in Virginia, May
21, 1821. 5. Arthur, born October i. 1819.
mentioned below. 6. John Chapman
Hunter, born November 11, 1821. died in
New Florence, Montgomery countv, Mis-
souri, about the early part of 1900 : married
Caroline Jackson ; children : Guy. a resident
of Webster Groves, near St. Louis, Mis-
souri ; Mrs. Dixie Pulliam. of New York, a
widow, Robert and Callie. deceased. 7.
Thomas Jefferson, born September 11, 1824,
died in February, 1910; married Alartha
Smoot, of Scotland county, j\Iissouri, a niece
of William B. Downing, who reared her ; chil-
dren : Edward, of Havre, Montana ; Thomas.
William, deceased, John, Arthur, Harry,
Mrs. E. T. Bogart, Peter Cooper, deceased.
8. Guy Lewis, born October 6, 1826; mar-
ried, September 7, 1851, Alarianna Davis;
children : Edward, Thomas, Mrs. Fannie
Elgin Alexander ; Guy Lewis Broadwater
resides in Oakland, California.
Arthur Broadwater, son of Charles Guy Broadwater, was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, and during the war between the states served as quartermaster under Gen- eral Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, the famous Confederate leader. He married Catherine Bradley, who died in 1900, daugh- ter of Peter Bradley, and had children : Isa- bel Fairfax, born in Fairfax, Virginia; Henry Arthur, born in Fairfax, Virginia; Richard Farr, served in the Confederate States army under Colonel Mosby : Guy, married Caroline Alford, and served in the same division of the Confederate army as his brother, Richard Farr; Charles Fox, of whom further. All living at the old home place, near Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
Charles Fox Broadwater, son of Arthur and Catherine (Bradley) Broadwater, was born at Fairfax, Virginia, June 30, 1870, and after attending private schools for a time finished his education in Bryant & Stratton's Busi- ness College, For three years after the com- pletion of his studies he was employed by the Theodore Weims Steamship Company, then became a traveling salesman for a house handling Texas coffee. He afterward changed his line to the sale of heavy hard- ware, in 191 1 establishing in independent hardware dealings in Fairfax Court House, a venture which the three years just passed have plainl)' stamped with the mark of suc- cess. Mr. Broadwater fraternizes with the Junior Order of L^nited American Me- chanics and the Masonic order, in the latter society belonging to Henry Lodge. No, 57. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he has been junior deacon. His polit- ical party is the Democratic. Mr. Broad- water is one of the substantial merchants of Fairfax Court House, his establishment having found public favor from the first, and in that pursuit he has prospered. He married, in October, igio, Gertrude (Sill- man") Coe, widow of James E. Coe,
