MY UNCLES, FOY WATSON AND EDDIE WATSON HAVE DONE RESEARCH INTO THE NAME SINCE MY MOTHER'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS BETTY KEZIAH (NOT SURE LAST NAME IS CORRECTLY SPELLED). BETTY KEZIAH WAS THE MOTHER OF HATTIE (I BELIEVE) HARRIS OF GASTON COUNTY, OBVIUSLY NEXT DOOR TO MECK. CO. MY UNCLE FOY WAS THE FIRE CHIEF IN GASTONIA FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER AND I AM SURE IF YOU DID A LITTLE POKING AROUND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO FIND HIM WITH LITTLE TROUBLE. HE'S A BIG SHOT WITH THE FIREMEN AROUND THOSE PARTS AND A DAMN FINE MAN OF THE UPMOST HONOR AND INTEGRITY, AS IS MY UNCLE EDDIE WATSON. THEY WERE PLACED IN AN ORPHANAGE WITH MY MOTHER AND HER SISTERS RUBY AND BETTY (THE FORMER BETTY ARD, WIFE OF THE LATE FREE WILL BAPTIST MINISTER KEMERY ARD, BOTH NOW DECEASED). HOW MUCH INFO THEY HAVE ON THE KEZIAH NAME IS UNKOWN TO ME, HOWEVER THEY DID FIND A LINK ON THE WATSON SIDE OF THINGS TO FAMED GUITAR PLAYER ARTHEL "DOC" WATSON. I BELIEVE HE AND MY MOTHER AND HER SIBLINGS SHARE A GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER, THOMAS WATSON.
I AM CURRENTLY A RESIDENT OF A TOWN OUTSIDE OAKLAND, CA CALLED EL SOBRANTE AND DO NOT SEE MY UNCLES AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE BUT THEY ARE TWO OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING MEN THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. OTHER THAN MY OWN FATHER, I CANNOT THINK OF MEN I HOLD IN HIGHER REGARD. TRULY MEN OF HIGH CHARACTER AND MORALS, TESTED BY GOD AND PROVEN TO BE WORTHY OF WORSHIPING HIM, ALTHOUGH THEY, LIKE THE REST OF MAN, FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ITS THE WAY WE ARE MADE. BUT IF YOU NEED SOME INFORMATION AND THEY HAVE IT, I SEE NO REASON THEY WOULDN'T SHARE IT WITH YOU.
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