 Like Watkins, Sandlin would also hold the Fourth District House seat for eight terms.Like Sandlin, Watkins is interred in the original section of Minden Cemetery alongside his wife, the former Elizabeth Murrell (January 23, 1858 – February 26, 1921).Also interred at Minden Cemetery are his parents, John D. Watkins, a Kentucky native, a lawyer, judge, and Democratic politician, and the former Mahala Flora Mora (1834-1899), a native of Walton County, Georgia.