Watson Edgar Sanford

Born 5 November 1882 at Manhattan, New York County, New York

Died 13 August 1953 at Rutland County, Vermont

Watson was the eldest of three children born to Watson More Sanford and Mary Elizabeth Brigham Sanford. When Watson was two years of age, his father relocated the family to Liberty, New York where he was the owner and operator of a farm. The family relocated before 1910 to New Milford, Connecticut where his father was a building carpenter. Watson was a freight depot clerk with New York, New Milford, and Hartford Railroad at that place. The family had relocated yet again in May of 1910 to Poughkeepsie, New York where his father was a carpenter. Watson was an office bookkeeper at Poughkeepsie when he married to Lily Emily Mills on 10 August 1910 at Manhattan. They made their home at Arlington, New York, a suburb of Poughkeepsie. Watson was engaged by DeLaval Separator Company where he was a foreman of several departments until his retirement in 1949. DeLaval was a producer of dairy and farming machinery. Watson was a member of DeLaval Foremen's Club; Arlington Board of Education; Arlington Central School District Board of Education; Dutchess County School Boards Association; Arlington Provisional Rotary Club; Arlington Reformed Church; Poughkeepsie Grange; Arlington Free Library; and Triune Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. Watson died while on vacation to Lake Bomoseen, a freshwater lake in the western part of Vermont in the towns of Castleton and Hubbardton in Rutland County. He was buried at LaGrange Rural Cemetery at Poughkeepsie. He was John More Association Jonas Line cousin #42811 and my second cousin twice removed. Watson and Lily were the parents of two children; Charles Watson Sanford and Ethel Mae Sanford.

*Note-his mother’s maiden name is also found in records spelled as Briggeman and Brigman.

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