P.A. Watson Log House - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Index Entry: Watson, P.A., Log House
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: BH; CB; PI;
Year Marker Erected: 1979
Designations: na
Previous Marker Location: 621 W. Arkansas Lane, Arlington; Middleton Tate Johnson Plantation Cemetery
Marker Size: 18: x 28" Subject
Repairs Completed: none
Similar to WMKD6, North Side School, WMPNE, the Jopling-Melear Log Cabin, this log house has been moved from M.T. Johnson Plantation Cemetery to this location.
West Fork United Presbyterian Church, WMK0G and the P.A. Watson Cemetery: WMMMN, mentioned in the marker text.

Marker Number: 3901 Marker Text: After his wife Margaret Ann (Armstrong) died, Patrick Alfred Watson (1810-1894) built this dwelling in 1855 near present Arlington for their six children. In 1858 he married Margaret's niece Mary Jane Donaldson and they had six children. A surveyor, educator, and religious leader, Watson gave land for the P.A. Watson Community Cemetery and for the original site of a church an school building. The congregation is now West Fork United Presbyterian Church in Grand Prairie. The house was enlarged and Watson family descendants occupied it until 1961. It was moved here in 1976.

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