Michael (Mack) Harvey Watlington, oldest son of William T. and Elizabeth Ozier, married (ca. 1875) Eliza J. Trice (b. 1845), a member of a prominent Jack's Creek family. After the settlement of his father-in-laws estate they moved to lands of the family near the old village of Jack's Creek. In 1877 the Landowner's map[10] shows that he still owned land adjoining his father from the old George W. Watlington farm, to the north east of the homestead. G. H. Trice, father of Eliza J., left 109 acres of land in Civil Dist. #5, Henderson Co., Tenn. to her in his will of 1875. (This is in Chester County, before formation of that county.) There were five children who each received land from their father.
Mack Harvey and Eliza J. Watlington's home became a landmark for the Watlington Tabler family which had earlier ties to the Jack's Creek Community and Dr. A. N. Tabler and family who lived there. They raised three sons and two daughters who were widely known in Chester County. Their daughter Lyde married James Manley Tignor whose descendents still live in that vicinity. Edna Homer Watlington was school teacher to two generations in the public schools of Chester County. Roy and Claude raised families nearby. Jim Hugh Watlington never married but farmed nearby and willed his farm to a Tignor relative at his death.
Mack Harvey Watlington was only three years older than his first cousin, Mack Rob Watlington. Mack Rob was sent to live with ``Uncle Billie'' during the school terms so he could study, and thus Mack Rob and Mack Harvey formed a friendship which endured through their long lives. Both lived more than 80 years and became the ``oral historians'' for the family. As long as they lived they enjoyed being together and Mack Rob often spent a few days at Jack's Creek with his cousin. Both left many descendents who are still around but very few of Mack Harvey's descendents bear the Watlington name now.