David Coleman Watson
1926 - 2000 (74 years)-
Name David Coleman Watson Born 21 Feb 1926 Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male Died 11 May 2000 Elk Grove, Sacramento County, California [2, 3] Buried Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon [3] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36443612/david-colemon-watson
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Person ID I1461 Robinson Last Modified 27 Jun 2023
Father Duke Watson, b. 19 Aug 1900, Saint Paul, Madison County, Arkansas , d. 7 Dec 1983, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 83 years) Mother Ida Vivian Mahaffey, b. 9 May 1902, Arkansas , d. 14 Apr 1984, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 81 years) Married 11 Feb 1922 Madison County, Arkansas Family ID F339 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Alberta Marie Fouts, b. 10 Mar 1920, Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon , d. 29 Dec 1999, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 79 years) Married 21 Feb 1958 Clark County, Washington Divorced 22 Oct 1958 Multnomah County, Oregon Last Modified 3 Feb 2022 Family ID F610 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Edith Louise Elmore, b. 23 Feb 1928, Sanger, Fresno County, California , d. 12 Apr 2006, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 78 years) Married 21 Feb 1975 Clark County, Washington [5] Last Modified 21 Apr 2022 Family ID F611 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 21 Feb 1926 - Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma 
Married - 21 Feb 1958 - Clark County, Washington 
Divorced - 22 Oct 1958 - Multnomah County, Oregon Married - 21 Feb 1975 - Clark County, Washington 
Died - 11 May 2000 - Elk Grove, Sacramento County, California 
Buried - - Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Mother Takes Life of Child
Poisons Four Others and Slashes Throat
Clinton, May 30 (AP) – Six-year-old Jerry Watson died of poisoning in a hospital here today and Sheriff Everett Stambaugh declared the boy’s mother, Mrs. Ida Watson, 34, had given him and her four other children poison capsules and then slashed her throat with a butcher knife.
Jerry Watson died shortly after he was carried to the hospital. The other four, Marie, 16; Bobbie, 14; David, 12, and Joe, 9, were reported improving after emergency treatment.
The mother was reported recovering from a deep wound in her throat.
Stambaugh said the eldest, Marie, told him she became suspicious when her mother called them into the house and made them take two capsules apiece, saying it was “quinine for malaria.”
Jerry was stricken ill quickly and Marie picked him up and ran for the hospital seven blocks away, the other children following here. They all collapsed as Marie was pouring out her story to a staff physician.
“Mrs. Watson was found bleeding and incoherent in the tourist cabin where the family was living,” Stambaugh continued. “She was persuaded to lay down her knife and be taken to a hospital.”
The sheriff said he found an unsigned, unaddressed not in the cabin which said, “you have your good time. I will take the children with me.”
Police Chief J.R. Greer quoted the father of the family, Duke Watson, unemployed oil worker, as saying he knew of no reason for his wife’s act.
Watson left the family shortly after noon to attend a baseball game with an old friend.
Stambaugh said he would turn the case over to the county attorney tomorrow.
Shawnee News-Star, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Wednesday, 31 May 1949, page 1.
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