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| Contents: 1. Members Lines 2. Queries 3. Watts/Rucker Families 4. Census Record Dates 5. Watts/Brown/Sinkler/Dent 6. Will of John Watts of Clark County, Kentucky ******************************************** MEMBERS LINES From: HStan92243@aol.com My great grandmother was a Mary Watts. She was the daughter of James M. and Ann O. Watts. James was born in the 1840s in Newton Co., GA. His parents were William T. and Nancy Watts. In 1850 they lived in DeKalb Co. GA and in 1860 in Fulton Co., GA. I have not been able to find them after 1860. I have found a marriage record for a William T. Watts and a Nancy Williams in Greene Co, GA in 1845. I believe that William T. Watts is the son of William Hicks Watts of Greene Co. GA and the grandson of Richard Watts of Wilkes and Greene Co. GA. If anyone can link a James M. Watts, born 1840s, to William Hicks Watts and Richard Watts please help me. I would be glad to share information with you. Send any information to HStan92243@aol.com From: Lorettahen@aol.com Hi, my name is Lorettahen, and I am requesting a copy of the newsletterabove. This might help in my ingury about my Watts Lineage. I am trying to prove that I am Indian. I have lots of paper work an this from some research that was sent to me, by and aunt. I also have some paper work on my gradfather, whose name was General Lee Watts,..buried in OK, his wifes name is Eller Crosson, her mothers name was Frances Evans. She is also buried in OK. My grandfather Richard Carl Watts, told all about his mother. She passed before him and his sisters could get her name on the role. He is also passed away and is buried in Denair Cementry, Denair along with another grandmother that was 1/2 Indian. I have alot of stuff,and I ahve heard this all of my life. Thanks, Lorettahen@aol.com From: tmantoot@flash.net (Thomas Mantooth) Hi, Thank you for sending a copy of the newsletter "Watts On-Line". It's very interesting. I am new to geneology research and have been having a great time corresponding with other researchers. I started my search with John "Young Tassel" Watts. I've been told he is my ancestor. Here is the information I have. 1. John "Young Tassel" Watts b.abt 1750 d.1808 (F. "Trader John" M.Gi Yo Sti Bird Clan) Nephew of Old Tassel and nephew of Dragging Canoe. 2. Jim Watts 2. Garrett Z. Watts 2. John Watts b. 1770 Buncombe Co. NC ( m. Mahala [Long]) 3. Eli Watts m. Becky Watts 4. Daniel Dodson Watts m. Frances Phillips 5. Sarah Elizabeth Watts m. W.J. Brock 5. Amanda Jane Watts 5. James Britton Watts 5. Nancy Watts 5. Eli Watts 5. Bill Watts 5. "Dank" Watts 5. Liza Watts 5. George Marion Watts 4. William G. Watts 3. Levi Watts 3. Bill Watts 3. Jesse Watts 3. John Watts Sarah Elizabeth Watts is my gggrandmother. She married Willis Jasper Brock after the Civil War. I have a copy of an affidavit by Daniel Dodson Watts and a sworn statement by Willis Jasper Brock with information on the Watts family that was sent to me from Dale G. Watson. According to Mr. Watson part of the Watts family changed their name to Watson at some point. He is a decendant of Jesse Watts. That's where I am in my research so far. It isn't much but it's a start. If you need more information, please let me know. Thanks! Tammy:-) From: waldy@worldnet.att.net (Waldy & Jean Cuevas) Hi! Here are the WATTS who are connected to my LANGSTONS in AR: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Descendants of Jacob Watts Generation No. 1 1. JACOB1 WATTS was born in Tennessee. He married EMILY. Children of JACOB WATTS and EMILY are: 2. i. EMANUEL2 WATTS. ii. DANIEL WATTS. iii. NATHANIEL WATTS. iv. SAMUEL WATTS. v. LEONA WATTS. vi. JOHN WATTS. vii. WILLIAM WATTS. viii. JAMES WATTS. ix. JOSIAH WATTS. x. MARTIN WATTS. xi. JACOB ZACHERY TAYLOR WATTS. Generation No. 2 2. EMANUEL2 WATTS (JACOB1). He married SARAH LANGSTON Abt. 1843 in Arkansas, daughter of JESSE LANGSTON and CHRISTINA HAWKINS. Notes for EMANUEL WATTS: GRANNY Sarah Langston Watts Frazier (author Pauline Pond) "He died before the start of the Civil War and is buried at Katy Cemetery. (This Cemetery is across the White River from Calico Rock in what is now Stone County. It is located between the road to Culp and the river on property owned by Mrs. Mildred Funk.) Their youngest child was less than a year and and Scott, the oldest was only 13. They lived on in their log cabin for several years. It was on the south side of the White River where the land was reserved for Indians. The whites had the north side. As Emanuel's mother was said to be full Indian and his father half-Indian, he probably felt more at home on the south side. Their Indian neighbors were friendly and liked Granny's bread. At times they would appear at her door and signify they wanted something to eat. She would give them the cornbread they liked so well and if they wanted to cross the river she would row them across. The children grew up and had families. She moved near Wild Cherry, AR This may have been because she married Stephen Frazier. Ray Watt's father, born 1882, was named Joe Frazier for his step-grandfather. My mother, Georgia, oldest child of Tom Watts was born in Fulton County, AR. When she was little, Granny lived about a mile away. She, Ella, and nettie liked to visit their Granny when they were hardly school age. I can see them now, 3 little girls making their way through the woods and fields along the path. Fences to climb over or crawl under. Somethimes they would stay all night. They were somewhat in awe of their Granny for she was strict. She believed children should mind. and whenever they left she gave them each a lump of brown sugar which she kept on a high shelf in a metal container. That was a great treat in those days." This information shared with me by Barbara J. Allen, and it was written by a descendant, Ray Watts. Notes for SARAH LANGSTON: "Her (Sarah) last years were with Uncle Bill and Aunt Nan. I remember going to see them in the house on Washington Avenue, about where the Police Station is, only set back from the street. Granny was in bed, smoking her clay pipe. She had smoked for years. If she couldn't get a clay pipe, she used a cob pipe. She preferred having it lit with a coal from the fireplace or stove. Granny had many talents and one so unizue that our conversations about her always turn to the beautiful tied lace articles she made from scratch! She raised her cotton, picked it, spun the white thread until it was just a little smaller than twine. Her table covers, chairback covers, piano and dresser scarves, centerpieces, edging for pillow cases, were beautiful and greatly prized by those who were the recipients of gifts. The ones still in existence are really museum pieces. No one else in the family learned the art as far as I know. " Children of EMANUEL WATTS and SARAH LANGSTON are: i. INFANT3 WATTS, b. 1845. ii. EMILI WATTS, b. August 19, 1846. 3. iii. JACOB SCOTT WATTS, b. December 25, 1847; d. 1924. iv. CHRISTY ANN WATTS, b. May 27, 1849. 4. v. STEPHEN B. WATTS, b. December 02, 1850, Arkansas; d. September 22, 1892, Arkansas. vi. JEHOIADA J. WATTS, b. January 13, 1853; m. RENA ROSS. Notes for JEHOIADA J. WATTS: Was a Methodist preacher. vii. BELINDA WATTS, b. August 19, 1854; m. BART LANGSTON. viii. MARY ELIZABETH WATTS, b. May 02, 1856. ix. WILLIAM MATERSON WATTS, b. August 21, 1858, Arkansas; d. February 09, 1937, Arkansas; m. (1) L. MINTA BIRD; m. (2) NANCY ELIZABETH WRAY. Notes for WILLIAM MATERSON WATTS: This family moved to West Plains about the same time as his brother, Thomas. Sarah Langston Watts Frazier moved to live with her son, Bill, after a few years. x. THOMAS JEFFERSON WATTS, b. May 14, 1860, Arkansas; d. October 24, 1895, Arkansas; m. HARRIET MILDRED WRAY. Notes for THOMAS JEFFERSON WATTS: This family settled in the West Plains area in the spring of 1895. Tom worked for the railroad. He died of pneumonia. Generation No. 3 3. JACOB SCOTT3 WATTS (EMANUEL2, JACOB1) was born December 25, 1847, and died 1924. He married TABATHA MISONHEIMER. Child of JACOB WATTS and TABATHA MISONHEIMER is: 5. i. JOE FRAZIER4 WATTS, b. 1882. 4. STEPHEN B.3 WATTS (EMANUEL2, JACOB1) was born December 02, 1850 in Arkansas, and died September 22, 1892 in Arkansas. He married NANIE MCGLASSON. Child of STEPHEN WATTS and NANIE MCGLASSON is: 6. i. ELIZABETH4 WATTS, b. 1884. Generation No. 4 5. JOE FRAZIER4 WATTS (JACOB SCOTT3, EMANUEL2, JACOB1) was born 1882. Child of JOE FRAZIER WATTS is: i. RAY5 WATTS. Notes for RAY WATTS: Of Calico Rock, AR. 6. ELIZABETH4 WATTS (STEPHEN B.3, EMANUEL2, JACOB1) was born 1884. She married ROBERT WRAY. Child of ELIZABETH WATTS and ROBERT WRAY is: i. CECIL5 WRAY, m. MR. YOUNG. Jean Mayfield Cuevas <Waldy@Worldnet.att.net> Researching these surnames: Alexander/Alsop/Alsup/Bacon/Ballard/Bennett/Beverage/ Bledsoe/Bedsaul/Cuevas/Denton/Farrier/Ferguson/Hale/ Houser/James/Jeffery/Langston/Lawson/Marchant/Mason Mayfield/Smith/Sturgeon/Summers/Wiles/Wilds/Wright ******************************************** QUERIES From: chouse@memphisonline.com Hi Jean Cuevas suggested that I contact you. My husband's grandmother was Dorthula Emmaline WATTS, born 23Mar1881. Her parents were E.M. WATTS and Nancy A. OSBORN WATTS. Dorthula married Aaron Conrad HUFFMAN. Dorthula and Conrad lived in Searcy County, Arkansas. Have you come across this line? Thank you. Sharon From: LambInMiss@aol.com I keep getting little scraps of info on my husband's Watts line. Hopefully someone out there might be able to help out. Our Watts line goes (most recent to oldest): 1. Pauline Van Culen Edwards m. Charles Walker McGinnis (my husband's grandparents) 2. Rev. William Emory Edwards m. (2) 1875 Norfolk, VA, Harriet Annie Watts (1849 Richmond, VA--1934 Warwick Co., VA) 3. Joseph Granbery Watts (b. abt. 1817 Norfolk, VA -- d. 1907 Pulaski, VA) m. 1847 Richmond, VA, Martha Anne Early Drake (1821-1897 Pulaski, VA) This is as far back as I've been able to get. I think Joseph's middle name, Granbery, might be a clue. I found two marriages in Norfolk of Watts men to Granbery women, and was able to rule out one. The other is John Watts to Mary Granbery in 1815. The Granbery book I found said they had 21 (!!) children, but didn't list any names. Another book said that the author hadn't been able to verify the story of the 21 kids. Does anyone know who their kids were and if Joseph Granbery Watts might have been one of them? Some of the family may have gone to TN, as the book mentioned a family Bible belonging to someone in Nashville ca. 1930's. Thanks! Maria Lamb LambInMiss@aol.com ******************************************** WATTS/RUCKER FAMILIES This might be suitable for your Watts news letter. I especially want to find more information on the parents of Robert W. Watts. From: Lwattsjr@aol.com September 19, 1998 Ed Taylor and I are members of the Rucker Family Society because we share the same Great Grandmother, Mary Ann Rucker Watts (b June 15,1811, d Dec. 27, 1989), who was married to Robert White Watts. I became aware of the Rucker Family Society only a very few years ago. I joined immediately because of my interest in the Watts genealogy. Mary Ann Rucker and Robert W. Watts were married December 24, 1835. That is well documented by a marriage bond and a news paper notice. There is little other information on either Robert W. or Mary Ann, other than some very negative information in the Amherst County Clerk of the Circuit Court's record office. There was a second Robert W. Watts (Robert William Watts) in the same record system so it is easy to have some confusion. While researching in the Clerk's Office record I found that there are many documents which indicate Robert W. Watts had some extended financial difficulties. Mary Ann Rucker's husband had some business reverses, and there are records of his having mortgaged the land and house where he lived with his family, and all his household possessions, his farm animals, all his farm tools, 10 bushels of corn, 1000 weight of tobacco, and every thing of every kind and description on the plantation. Mary Ann Rucker must have had a hard life. They were married December 24,1835, and these negative documents show up in the record of 1846, 1848, 1854, etc. I have been unable to find any record of where Robert W. Watts came from, who his parents were, his date of birth, his date of death, or where he was buried. The U S Census of 1870 shows Robert W. as the head of his household with Mary Ann as his wife, with six children at home. The youngest was Robert W.,Jr., (b September 24, 1855, d December 7, 1912) age 14, who was to become my grandfather. The 1880 U S Census indicates the youngest son, Robert W., Jr., age 25, was head of the household, consisting of Mary Ann.Rucker Watts, age 59, and Elmira, age 39, Edna, age 37, Mary A. age 35, and Victoria, age 26. My grandfather, Robert White Watts, Jr., married Ida J. Burford, June 9, 1880. I assume they provided a home for Robert W.'s mother, Mary Ann Rucker Watts from 1880 until she died in 1889. My conclusion is that Robert White Watts, Sr., husband of Mary Ann Rucker Watts died between 1870 and 1880. Mary Ann Rucker and Robert W. Watts, Sr., had another son, Joseph Bonds Watts (b Jan.3,1844, d July 3, 1931) who was married to Mary Jane Rucker (b Oct. 14, 1843, d Oct.1, 1924) in 1868. Joseph B. and Mary Jane had 6 children. The youngest child, Edna, married Robert Taylor, who was Ed. Taylor's father. The 1870 Census shows that Robert W. Watts was 59 years old, Mary Ann Rucker Watts was 54 years old, and their oldest son, Joseph B., was not living at home, so the assumption is that Joseph and Mary Jane married before 1870. The U S Census of 1900 indicates they married in 1868. Therefore Joseph B. had his own family when his father, Robert White Watts, Sr., died some time after 1870. Joseph B. Watts was 11 years older that Robert W. Watts, Jr., my grandfather. The Obituary for Joseph B. Watts, dated July 7, 1931, shows he was survived by three daughters, Miss Mary F. Watts, Mrs. R. W. Taylor, and Mrs. Flem Taylor: three sons, W. R. Watts, and J. T. Watts, Amherst County, and N. C. Watts, Alexandria. There were sixteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren (in 1931). Robert W. and Mary Ann Rucker Watts had a daughter named Rebecca (b Sept. 1, 1852, d Mat 7, 1939). She was the child born before my grandfather, Robert White Watts, Jr. Rebecca married George W. Higginbotham on May 20, 1874. His recorded age was 24 and hers was 21. Rebecca Watts Higginbotham was survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Tucker, Forest, Va., Mrs. W. S. Martin, Lynchburg.: and two sons, J. H. Higginbotham, and D. N. Higginbotham. It was in the obituary of Rebecca Watts Higginbotham that the name of my great grandfather Robert W. Watts was written as Robert White Watts. Prior to my starting my Watts genealogical research in 1990, I was under the impression that my great grandfather was named Robert C. Watts. My father, Lawrence A. Watts, and his brother, Harry S. Watts, had told their children that their grandfather was named Robert C. Watts. My father told me his grandmother was named Mary. My Father was born in 1893 and his grandmother died in 1889. His grandfather had died or disappeared after the 1870 U S Census was taken. Had it been 1871 it would have been 22 years before my father was born. Old church records indicate Mary Ann Watts attended Ivy Hill Methodist Church in 1858 to 1864. Ivy Hill Methodist Church is ten miles from where the Isaac Rucker farm was located on the South Fork of the Buffalo River. Her father, Isaac Rucker and his second wife, Mary Wingfield, were buried at Mt. Horeb Methodist Church, not far from his old home where he died. Mary Ann Rucker Watts, her husband, Robert W. Watts, and two of her brothers and their wives, sold 160 acres of land, devided on both sides of the South Fork of the Buffalo River, near Mr. Horeb Church, to Elizabeth Turpin, wife of Jeremiah Turpin on Nov. 18, 1848. There are a large number of Turpin grave stones in the Mt. Horeb Cemetery today. On May 7, 1844, Mary Ann R. Watts, Robert W. Watts and Thomas Rucker, Nathan Rucker, (Mary Ann's two brothers) and other Rucker family members, joined in a deed to give a triangular tract of land to the Methodist Church Conference. This land is very much like the size and shape of the present Mt. Horeb Methodist Church property. I visited the Mr. Horeb Methodist Church and Cemetery on September 17, 1998, and inspected the land area along the South Fork of the Buffalo River where the Isaac Rucker farm must have been located. My impression of the terrain is that it would be impossible to make a crop of tobacco or corn, on that land today, and it must have been a very marginal farming operation back in the 1830's and 1850's. It is located so far to the northwest of Amherst County Courthouse that in 1850 it would take all day or more to travel from Mt. Horeb Church to Amherst. I found visiting this area a very humbling experience. The Isaac Rucker family must have been a very deprived family by 1850 standards. The area near Ivy Hill Methodist Church is just the opposite. It is beautiful land and would be very productive today. I assume that after Robert W. Watts, Sr., lost his wife's dowager land along the South Fork of the Buffalo River and went bankrupt. He moved his family to the Ivy Hill area and continued to work as a farmer, as a tenant on someone else's land. I tell you all of this because I would like very much to ask your help in finding more information on Mary Ann Rucker Watts, and her husband, Robert White Watts. Is there anyone in the Rucker Family Society who would know any descendants of Mary Ann and Robert W., or the descendants of Joseph B. Watts or Rebecca Higginbotham, who might have the key to finding the answer to the riddle of the origin of Robert White Watts, Sr., who married Mary Ann Rucker? Please notify me at P. O. Box 3194, Greenville, N. C. 27836 or call me collect at telephone number 252-758-6330 if you have any ideas what-so-ever. Is there anyone who might know where the Isaac Rucker home place was located? I thank you for sending me any information you might have! Written by Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. Contributed by: Lwattsjr@aol.com ******************************************** Census Year Census (recorded) Taken 1790 First Monday of August 1790 1800 First Monday of August 1800 1810 First Monday of August 1810 1820 First Monday of August 1820 1830 1 June 1830 1840 1 June 1840 1850 1 June 1850 1860 1 June 1860 1870 1 June 1870 1880 1 June 1880 1890 First Monday of June 1890 1900 1 June 1900 1910 15 April 1910 ******************************************** WATTS/BROWN.SINKLER/DENT Howdy, I'm looking for someone who knows about Edward Watts family of Bedford Co., VA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- In Bedford County, Virginia Will Book 2, Page 158. Will of Edward Watts: March 12, 1793 Wife: Elizabeth Daughters: Ann Scott Elizabeth Snell Milly Richards Mary Sinclair Sarah Huddleston Sons: William Benjamin John Witness: Joseph Brown Charles Simmons Isaac Sinclair ----------------------------------------------------------- Who are the three witnesses? Was Isaac Sinclair the son of Wayman Sinkler - the son of Alexander Sinkler? Was Charles Simmons related to John Simmons of Campbell Co., VA? Who are his descendants? Was Joseph Brown the one who lived on Beaverdam Creek, and married to Elizabeth Dent (dau. of John Dent and Sarah Brown)? Any info will be apprediated. Freddy Brown freddyb@tnpride.com ******************************************** WILL OF JOHN WATTS OF CLARK COUNTY KENTUCKY Will Book 7, pa. 71 Made 3 Jun 1828 Proved Aug 1828 In the name of God, Amen, I John Watts of the County of Clark, State of Kentucky, being in a very low state of health, but of sound mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed once for man to die do make this my last will and testament. First I commend my soul to go and my body to the earth to a Christian burial and as to the property which I possess I desire that all my just debts be paid and the remainder to be disposed of as follows: To-wit: To Elizabeth my beloved wife, I lend the tract of which I live on with its appurtenances with all of my other property except so much as shall be sold to pay my debts, to remain in her possession during her natural life and after her decease to be sold at one year credit and the money arising from the sale to be divided in the following manner: To my son Abel $50.00; to my son George $50.00; to my daughter Polly Bishop, $50.00; to my son Benjamin B. an Augustine, $100.00; to my daughters, Fanny Jenkins $50.00; Jane Elliot, $50.00 and the following children, namely; Richard Mahala, John , William, $100.00 to each and if any should remain to be equally divided between all my children; namely, Nancy Groom, Abel Watts, George Watts, Benjamin Watts, Polly Bishop, Augustine Watts, Fanny Jenkins, Richard Watts, Jane Elliott, William Watts, Mahala Watts, and John Watts. I Moreover appoint Thomas Potts and Richard Bivins my executors of this. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of June, 1828. John Watts (by his mark) ******************************************** Watts' On-Line: Compiled from e-mail and other sources Distributed by Lori Watts Linnell lwlinnell@aol.com
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