Published as it appeared on Oct. 7, 1925, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 1, Column 7.
Visitor From Washington
Dies Suddenly in Corvallis
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Mrs. Sarah Knott Watson of Curlew, Wash., who came to Benton county two months ago to visit her daughter, Mrs. J.E. Bullis, and family, in Corvallis, and her son, E.E. Watson, and family, at Alsea died last night at the Bullis home in this city. Mrs. Watson was ill but a short time. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed, but interment will be near Corvallis.
Published as it appeared on Oct. 8, 1925, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 4, Column 1.
LOCAL BREVITIES
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Funeral Friday — The funeral of the late Mrs. Sarah Knott Watson will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 from Bovee’s chapel. Rev. E.J. Harper will officiate at the service and interment will be in Newton cemetery. Mrs. Watson was the mother of Mrs. J.E. Bullis of Corvallis and died while here from Washington on a visit to her daughter.
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Editor’s note: Sarah Knott was born to James Knott and Ellen (Schellhous) Knott on Aug. 25, 1855 in Illinois and died Oct. 6, 1925 in Corvallis. The 1860 census places her in St. Albans, Illinois, with her parents and five siblings. The family, which included her parents and eight siblings, still lived in St. Albans in 1870. She married John J. Watson on April 13, 1878 and in 1880, they were living in Lineville, Iowa, with their 2-year-old daughter, Cora. A Washington state census taken in 1892 shows the family in Tacoma, Washington. The 1900 and 1910 census records show them living in Curlew, Washington. The couple had four children in all. John J. Watson survived her and lived to be 96, dying on Nov. 5, 1947. He is buried next to her at Mount Union Cemetery.