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Submitted: 9/21/21 • Approved: 9/21/21 • Last Updated: 9/24/21 • R457917-G0-S3
1916-1959
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER, Sept. 9 (AP) - William Edison Watson, 43, an employee of the J.M. Huber Corp., an oil field firm, was killed today in a hunting accident southwest of this Panhandle city.
Justice of the Peace J.D. Miller ruled the death an accident and reconstructed the shooting as follows:
Watson was driving north, about 6 miles southwest of Borger, and had a .22 pump action rifle with him. Apparently he saw something in a field to shoot at, got out of his car with the gun, and started to crawl through a barbed wire fence.
Weldon Sullivan, another employee of the oil firm, discovered the body entangled in the barbed wire. Watson had died of two bullet wounds in the chin.
Watson was the brother of Mrs. Mary Ellen Batchlear and the uncle of Mrs. A.E. Armstrusler, both of 128 St. Francis, Pleasant Valley, Amarillo.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - 09 Sep 1959, Wed - Page 1)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William Edison Watson
Death Date: 9 Sep 1959
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 51077
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: William Edison Watson
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 43
Birth Date: 19 May 1916
Birth Place: Polk, Arkansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 9 Sep 1959
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Wm E Watson
Mother: Alice Ha
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