From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/7/1882, p. 1, c. 3
DEATH OF MR. H. A. WATT. – Mr. Hugh A. Watt, for many years a prominent merchant and well-known citizen of Richmond, died yesterday morning at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Hugh D. Smith, of Henrico, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. His funeral will take place at 2 P. M. to-day from Dr. Smith’s residence, on the Mechanicsville road.