PART 3 BRICK GRANARY FARM, WATSON.

PART 3

THE BRICK GRANARY FARM & ROGERSVILLE

1857

HENRY S. & SARAH E. WATSON

John Robinson Bennett sold the Brick Granary farm , now only 90 acres, in June 1857,

to John W. Davidson who later sold it to in 1859 to Henry S. Watson. Watson kept the

Brick Granary farm 35 years , raised a family of eight on the property. There was the home,

the granary and a store, the store sort of a local meeting place where neighbors voice opinions

on daily affairs. It last until 1953.

Henry S Watson and his wife, Sarah raised six children , Elias, Heneretta, Mary, Loeata

Marcelena and Josephine. In ill health in 1896 Henry gave his arm to his children which

gave the farm to Marclena who had problems with past mortage holders and sold the farm to

George Hall of Milford

Hall divided the farm into two parcels, 40 acres and 50 acres, sellling the 50 acres to William

Wilkins Hall kept the 40 acres. 1933 Wilkins gave his son, Luther 'Burt' Wilkins, who lived there until 1950. Paris Johnson then bought the farm, raised his six children there, and when he died, April 2000 , the farm passed to his children. One son, Marvin, kept a parcel long the stream Tar River. A sister who married a Lowery kept a two acre lot on the Brick

Granary road.

The rest of the farm has been sold to Elmer and Mary Ann Fannin where they live.

The demise of the Brick Granary came about when highway builders were building the

1924 Rehoboth highway, u dynamiting the river bed for a bridge and the pounding of piling, the vibrations of which caused the Brick Granary to crumble .

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The above is an abstract of works by Dave Kenton, in 2008, as chairman of the Milford

Museum. I, Harrison H. have a copy the Kenton work, and have post the abstracts to

Facebook's page, Positive Milton & www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com July 16, 2018.