[3] Watkins represented Prince Edward County in the Virginia House of Delegates for the session of 1897-1898.

He was elected to the Virginia Senate in 1899, representing Prince Edward, Cumberland, and Amelia counties.

He served as trustee of the Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes (now Virginia State University) in Petersburg for 20 years.

[2][3] They had eight children: William Forbes, Samuel W., Mrs. Maurice Miller, Frank Nathaniel Watkins, Asa D., Patsy, Nancy, and foster daughter Mrs. Joseph Powell.

[3] He was a deacon and elder of the Presbyterian Church in Farmville. Watkins died on April 14, 1938, at his home in Farmville.

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