B43,241.
Helen Lawson Niebuhr, 1st child of Susan Ridley (Watson)
Niebuhr (B43,24) and Charles Christopher Niebuhr, was born
September 20, 1871, and married as his second wife James Swan
of Haddonfield, N.J., a broker, October 5, 1916. The lived in
Rhode Island.
B43,25.
Emma Watson, 5th child of Ebenezer H. (B43,2) and Elizabeth J.
(Knapp) Watson, was born May 29, 1842, and died December
31, 1919, at Summit, N.J. She married January 17, 1888, in New
York City, Oliver Cromwell Titus, a merchant. She died
December 31, 1919, at Summit, N.J. He died May 15, 1927, at
Summit.
B43,28.
Lindsey Watson, 8th child of Ebenezer H. Watson (B43,2) and
Elizabeth J. (Knapp) Watson, was born February 21, 1849, in
New York City, and died July 7, 1920. He married January 20,
1881, Genevieve Augusta Briggs, daughter of Isaac Varian Briggs
and Elizabeth (Barker or Parker) Briggs, born January 26, 1855,
and died February 20, 1895. Children:
1. Elizabeth Montgomery, b. December 26, 1881. (B43,281)
2. Ruth, b. December 19, 1883. (B43,282)
3. Marjorie, b. February 7, 1886. (B43,283)
4. Robert Sedgwick, b. February 23, 1888. (B43,284)
5. Genevieve Lindsey, b. March 3, 1890. (B43,285)
6. Evelyn Briggs, b. June 10, 1892; d. April 4, 1895.
B43,3.
Catherine Sears Watson, 3d child of Frances Pamela (Sedgwick)
Watson (B43) and Ebenezer Watson, was born January 17,
1806, and married August 15, 1832, Rev. Abner Webb. They
sailed from Boston, Mass., December 22, 1832, as Baptist
missionaries to the Burman Empire. They arrived July 16, 1833, at
Maulmain, Burma, not far from Rangoon. In 1837 they went up
the Irrawaddy River in a rowboat to Ava, a few miles from
Mandalay, where, after enduring for four months the perils of civil
war, they set out for Rangoon which they reached in spite of
sickness, storms and robbers, July 4, 1837. They set sail for home
November 1, 1837, because of Mrs. Webb's continued illness.
They arrived at New Bedford, Mass., January 3, 1838. Mrs.
Webb
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