Katie Elizabeth Watkins Part 1 1894 to 1899

1894, birth

1897 Historical Insight, Dr Brown

1898, sister Lillie born

Katie Watkins Howell 3-gen Pedigree
from Ancestry.com

Again, we don't have primary sources of birth for Katie Watkins.  So we have to rely on census records and other secondary and tertiary sources.  She was the second child of about 11 children born to Henry and Martha Warrick Watkins.

Advertisement from Chicago Daily Tribune
26 May 1894, page 16
downloaded March 2017 from Newspapers.com

1894, age 0

Katie Elizabeth Watkins was born, 17 December 1894 in Johnston North Carolina.  Her death certificate shows her born in South Carolina, but that is probably an error on the part of the informant.  Her mother Martha was 18 years old, and her father Henry Blake Watkins was 22.

1897, age 3 --  Historical Insight 

Historical Insight from Ancestry.com
1913.  Credit: Barnum Brown/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

Dr. Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter -- "Dr. Brown's knowledge was sought after for several projects, including the dinosaur sequence in Walt Disney's film Fantasia."

Mrs. Helen Scott, Horse Thief
Gibson City Courier
Gibson City, Illinois
12 July 1895, page 6
downloaded September 2017 from Newspapers.com

1898, age 3 

sister Lillie Watkins was born in April, in North Carolina