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WARREN
In 1884 Allen Warren was married to Sarah Kinnee in Palmerston, Ontario. They had 9 children: Lionel, Armand, Wellington, Ethel, Etta, Victor, Ada, and Ida. He had come to Pickford in 1877 at the age of 27 and settled on a farm one mile north and one and one-half miles east of Pickford. Before that he worked as a foreman in the timber business in Hamilton, Ontario.
He was one of the organizers of the Pickford Agricultural Society, a highway commissioner for several terms, township treasurer, deputy sheriff, and for 15 years served as a conservation officer. He was 97 at the time of his death in 1947.
LIONEL, the oldest, was married to Mae Johnston and both are now deceased. They had two children, Ervadine and Johnston. Ervadine married Cecil Taylor (deceased) and had four children: Gerald (deceased); Bonita (Mrs. John Rutcie) with three children and living in Williamston, Michigan; Rodrick, married with two children and living in Brighton, Michigan; and David (deceased). Johnston married Millie Crisp and has two daughters. He lives at Stalwart. Shelna married Lawrence Johnston and has one daughter. Brenda Perkins has two children and lives in Wisconsin.
ARMAND married Anna Pennington and they had five children.
WELLINGTON married Mabel Reynolds and they are both deceased. They had nine children, five of whom are still living. Ethel married Alex Lamont and lives in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Edith married David Knowles and also lives in Dawson Creek. Edna married Frank Parr and lives in Groundbirch, British Columbia. Elsie Ferris lives in Oklahoma. Bert is not married and lives in Cherwynd, British Columbia.
ADA WARREN married Wilbert Reynolds. They had no children and she is deceased.
IDA WARREN (deceased) married Fred Fazakerly and had no family.
VEVA WARREN married Joseph Hill and they have three children. Warren Hill married Elizabeth Harrison and they have one daughter, Carolyn. Carolyn married John Witbrodt and has one child, Kerri Lynn*. James Hill married Barbara Nicholas and they have four children. Linda married John Merrill and is teaching in Augusta, Maine. James, Nicholas, and Maxine are all in college - James in law school. Maxine married Calvin Wonnacott and they have two daughters, Pamela and Lisa.
ETHEL (deceased) married Isaac Watson and had one daughter, Shirley. Shirley married Albert Crawford and has two children, JoAnn (Mrs. Robert Allen) and Bill in college.
VICTOR WARREN is not married and lives in Detroit.
ETTA WARREN married Henry MacFadden and has no children. They live in Detroit.
WATSON (JAMES)
James R. Watson was born in Stayner, Ontario, on June 10, 1875, to Isaac Watson and Rose Kelly Watson. He came to the United States as a small boy and worked with his father in farming, carpentry, and barn-framing. They settled on a farm in the Stirlingville area. On Nov. 8, 1899, he married Hannah Rye (born 1876) and three children were born to them: Otto in 1900, Violet in 1902, and Roy in 1905. All are now deceased - Violet, 1919; Roy in 1922; and Otto in 1955.
Mr. Watson went to work for Mr. F. H. Taylor in 1907 in the Taylor Grocery a~d Shoe Store. In 1920 he and H. M. Hamilton formed a partnership and bought out Mr. Taylor's grocery business, changing the name to Pickford Grocery. In 1921 they bdught the shoe business and renamed it the Pickford Shoe Store. Then in 1922 they bought the building.
In February of 1929 the brick building housing the Pickford Grocery, the Pickford Shoe Store, and the Emptoium (G.P. Taylor's Dry Goods Store) burned to the ground. It was rebuilt the same year with the partnership buying out the Emporium and challging the name to Pickford Dry Goods Store. In 1933, after working in the store for approximately six years, Otto Watson bought the Pickford Shoe Store. He managed the store until his death in July, 1955. His son, William, who had worked with his father since July, 1954, now operates the business, changing the name in 1958 to Watson's Shoe Stote.
In 1945 Mr. James R. Watson retired after 35 years in the store business. He died on July 6, 1949, at the age of 74. His son, OTTO, married Margaret Miller and they had two children, William and JoAnn. William married Vema Galer and they have two daughters, Shelley and Lori. JoAnn lives in Chicago. Mrs. James Watson died in 1941 at the age of 65.
WATSON (THOMAS)
Thomas Watson and wife, Elizabeth, and family came from Stayner, Ontario, to Kansas. A few years later they came to Pickford and farmed one mile south and one-half mile west of Pickfqtd.
Some of his brothers, half-brothers and half-sisters also came here. Many of his btothers and sisters remained in Canada. Many years later Thomas Watson and part of his family went to Everett, Washington, to live.
Their family included ROBERT, who married Esther Morley and they had four children:
WILLIAM WATSON married Julia Smith and farmed for many yeats one and three-quarters miles northwest of PicMord and later went to Detroit. Their children Russell, David, and Millie Pouch who grew up in Pickford and now live in Arizona.
MARY WATSON (Mrs. William Belcher) had two children, Earl and Ford, Later she married Henry Bartman and their children are Albert and Estella.
MARGARET WATSON married Nathaniel Smith and they farmed two miles northwest of Pickford (the Fotrest McCord farm), until they retired and came to Pickford. Their children were Cora Stirling, Verna Armstrong, and Milford. (deceased)
WARREN WATSON married Bessie McKnight and at one time farmed northwest of Pickford, then moved to Washington. They had one son, Thomas.
DOLLIE WATSON married Joseph Weingartner and has lived most of her life in Gladstone, Michigan. Their family were Ralph, Ruth Norick, and Joe.
Other children who went to Washington with their parents were NELLIE (Mrs. Gust. Zunke),James, and Belle (Mrs. Robert Hawkins).
Isaac Watson, a brother of Thomas, farmed in Stirlingville and finally lived in Pickford for many years. His wife was Rose Kelly. Their family included Margaret (Mrs. Chtistie), Belle (Mrs. Frank Smith), and James R. Watson.
George Watson, half-brother of Thomas and married to Grace Adams, farmed on the farm adjoining the east side of Munuscong Golf Course. He also lived in the village of Pickford and was deputy sheriff of Pickford Township for many years. He was also supervisor. They had one adopted son, David.
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