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Rutland Township Cemeteries
Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Watkins Farm Burial Ground
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Photo of Watkins Farm from Cemetery
by Joyce M. Tice 1998
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Photo taken by Joyce M. Tice from the Watkins Burial Ground overlooking
the Grandason WATKINS / Jerusha RICE homestead
Watkins Burial Ground
Rutland Township, Tioga County PA
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Located in southeastern Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania on a
wooded hill (highest point) between Kennedy and Pine Hollow Roads near their
junction and northwest of the Nathan & Dolores Burleigh residence. Markers
copied November 1998 by J. Kelsey Jones and photographed by Joyce M. Tice.
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Grandason Watkins d. March 9, 1875 AGED 68 yrs 7 mo & 4 d’s |
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Jerusha A. Watkins d. Feb 15, 1888 Agd 82 years |
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Ephraim B. son of Grandason & Jerusha A. Watkins d. Mar 31, 1864
Ag’d 18 y’rs 2 m. & 15d. Footmarker, E. B. W. |
Grandison WATKINS,
(SRGP 07238) departed this
life at his residence in Rutland, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, on the
9th day of March, 1875, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. The
subject of this notice was born in Connecticut and emigrated to this
country with his parents at the age of nine years. He was married to
Jerusha A. Rice, January 13, 1731, and subsequently settled on the
farm on which he died. He gave his heart to Jesus in 1840, and
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Subsequently, because of
the connection of that Church with Slavery and the arbitrary
character of its government, he withdrew and united with the
Wesleyan Methodists where he and a number of his family have since
found a congenial home. He embraced fully all their distinctive
principles and the practical workings of the holy religion of the
Son of God. He could not return to the Methodist Episcopal Church
because of its criminal connection with Freemasonry and other
kindred Societies. Brother Watkins was recognized by those that knew
him best, as a conscientious, consistent Christian man. He suffered
long and much, but with great Christian patience and resignation.
But now the conflict is over. He fought the good fight, he has
finished his course.
“He sleepeth in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep.”
He leaves the companion of his early manhood, and six children to mourn
their loss; two have gone on before him, but the afflicted are
comforted with the words of the Apostle, I Thes. 4:14. “For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” In his last will, made
1872, he gave direction where to deposit his remains, and that his
funeral should be held by, and agreeable to the usage of his own
denomination. The occasion was improved by the writer to a large and
attentive congregation of friends and neighbors, from I Thes 4:13.
Published on Tri-Counties 02 NOV 1998
