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A native of Bombay, India, for nearly thirty years a faithful Domestic in the family of Rev. H Bardwell, died in Christian hope Sept. 15, 1864.

Caroline Van Dusen was the daughter of Charles Van Deusen and Mary Huntington Cole. She was born at the family's home in New Albany, IN on December 29, 1846. New Albany is directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY, and some records list her birth there. As a young child she and her siblings, Charles K., Mary Huntington, and Henry Devol, spent their winters in New Orleans, LA near her mother's family, and she attended the St. Charles Institute. Her father Charles

John Watson was born in Plymouth, MA on Thursday, April 19, 1716 at "10 o'clock in the morning". His father, John Watson, was reportedly the wealthiest man in Plymouth County when he died in 1731. The Watsons had come to Plymouth in the early 1630s and though they were not of the original Pilgrims, they were one of the early influential families in Plymouth Colony. His mother, Sarah Rogers, was the daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Appleton) Rogers. She died 1725 and John and

William was born In Jonesborough, TN on October 25, 1855 to James C. and Sophia Eliza (Byers) Cox. James was a farmer and merchant in Jonesborough, and they lived in the same household as Sophia's father, step-mother, and step-siblings. Sophia's father, Col. Charles Potter Byers, was the editor of The Vindicator, and her mother, Elizabeth Conway Sevier, was the granddaughter of John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee. William had one older brother named Hugh Aiken, tho