Individual Notes

Note for: Levin Watson, 19 Jan 1803 - 11 Aug 1859 Index

Burial:
Place: Watson Cemetery, Anson County, NC.

Individual Notes

Note for: Michael Watson, 22 Dec 1805 - 2 Jan 1884 Index

Burial:
Place: Long Pine Cemetery, Anson County, NC.

Individual Notes

Note for: Jacob Watson, - 14 Jun 1919 Index

Burial:
Place: Kenly, Johnston County, NC

Individual Notes

Note for: Vincent Watson, ABT 1790 - 1829 Index

Burial:
Place: Laurens County, GA--probably on old family land

Individual Notes

Note for: Walter James Brantley, 10 Apr 1876 - 10 Sep 1951 Index

Burial:
Place: Sparta City Cemetery, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia

Individual Notes

Note for: Maston Ussery, Feb 1835 - 28 Sep 1901 Index

Burial:
     Date:   29 Sep 1901
     Place:   Ussery Fam Cem, Dublin, Laurens County, Ga

Individual Notes

Note for: Millie Ann Watson, ABT 1806 - AFT 1885 Index

Census:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   Walton County, FL

Census:
     Date:   1885
     Place:   Fla. census--living with daughter Amanda Goss in Alaqua, Walton County, FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert G. Stephens, 14 Aug 1913 - 20 Feb 2003 Index

Individual Note:
     STEPHENS, Robert Grier, Jr., (great-great-nephew of Alexander Hamilton Stephens), a Representative from Georgia; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., August 14, 1913; graduated from Boys High School, Atlanta, Ga., 1931; A.B., University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1935; M.A., University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1937; LL.B., University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Ga., 1941; attended the University of Hamburg, Germany, 1935-1936; United States Army, 1941-1946; faculty, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; legal staff of Mr. Justice Jackson at the Nuremberg trials of major Nazi war criminals; lawyer, private practice; city attorney of Athens, Ga., 1947-1950; member of the Georgia state senate, 1951-1953; member of the Georgia state house of representatives, 1953-1959; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; died on February 20, 2003, in Athens, Ga.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000860)
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The Honorable Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, former U.S. Representative from Georgia's Tenth Congressional district, died Thursday, February 20, 2003.
      Born in Atlanta, GA, on August 14, 1913, Mr. Stephens was the son of the late Dr. Robert Grier and Lucy Evans Stephens. He graduated from Boys High School in Atlanta in 1931, then attended the University of Georgia where he received an AB in 1935, MA in 1937, and LLB in 1941. While at the University he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, Sphinx and Gridiron societies, and was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and ODK. He attended the University of Hamburg, Germany, on an exchange student scholarship in 1935-36.
      Congressman Stephens taught history at the University of Georgia from 1936-40, after which he served his country in the U.S. Army, with overseas duty, from September 1941 to March 1946. His last assignment was on the legal staff of Justice Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals. He was released from active duty with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He resumed his teaching career from 1946-47 at the University of Georgia and the University of Georgia Law School. He practiced law in Athens in the firm of Stephens, Fortson, Bentley, and Griffin and served as City Attorney for Athens from 1947-50.
      Congressman Stephens was a member of the State Senate from 1951-53, a member of the State House of Representatives from 1953-59, a delegate in the Democratic National Convention in 1964, and he was elected as a Democrat to the eighty-seventh Congress in 1961. He served in Congress for eight terms, retiring in January 1977.
      Congressman Stephens took part in many civic organizations and activities, including serving as chairman of the United Way of Northeast Georgia, membership in the Golden K Kiwanis Club, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Athens Clarke-Heritage Foundation, and many others. He served as deacon and elder at First Presbyterian Church where he taught the Hooper Bible Class for over 16 years.
      Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Grace Winston Stephens; two sons, Dr. Robert G. Stephens, III and Judge Lawton E. Stephens; two daughters, Winston Stephens and Mary Stephens Hopper; daughters-in-law, Carolyn Stephens and Mary Stephens; sons-in-law, Jack Dohany and Dennis Hopper; two sisters, Emma S. Wilson, Crawford, and Ida S. Williams, Lawrenceville; ten grandchildren: Robert G. Stephens, IV, John Stephens, Brendan Stephens, Rebecca Stephens, Alexander Stephens, Merideth Sheskey, Lawton Stephens, Jr., Grace Stephens, Joseph Hopper, and Jefferson Hopper.
      Visitation hours will be 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, February 24, at Bernstein Funeral Home. Following a private graveside ceremony, a memorial service will be held at First Presbyterian Church, Athens, at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 25. The reverends Joe Berry and Glenn Doak will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the ''Friday Lunch Bunch'' and the Tuesday Morning Bible Group. The family will receive friends in the church fellowship hall after the service.
      In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be given to First Presbyterian Church, 185 E. Hancock Ave., Athens, GA 30601.
      Athens Banner-Herald, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003


Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, February 23, 2003.