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The Watts On-line
Issue No. 80
November 1, 2000


      For the past couple months I have requested that you send me a copy of your Web addresses where your genealogy can be accessed.  Several of you have responded but I’m sure there are many more of you that have not.  We have over 350 researchers this newsletter reaches.  I’m sure there are more that six of you with web sites!   Come on folks…lets share your genealogy…send us your web address.  They will be published in next months newsletter.  Thanks to all those who contributed to this newsletter. 

CONTENTS 

1.      Members Lines

2.      Watts’ in the War of 1812

3.      Anslum Lynch Watts on Civil War Days – Part 1

4.      Birthplace of John Watts and Lucy Dalton Family

5.      Francis Marion Watts

6.      Misc Watts in Fountain Co. Indiana

7.      Watts Marriages in Missouri  1851-1900

8.      Descendants of Jacob and Martha Watts

9.      Watts DAR Records 

MEMBERS LINES 

From:  jkwatts@icehouse.net (John & Kathy Watts) 

 The reason that I mention this is that I am willing to share this data with anyone who wishes to contact me. However, I do not keep my genealogical data on this computer for safety sake but on a seperate off-line computer, therefore, if anyone contacts me for data, they will have to provide me with their mailing address and I will printout a hard copy for them. The following is my ancestry:  My father John Harold Watts Sr., b. 28 Sep 1905 at Almyra, Arkansas co., Arkansas d. 9 Apr 1990 Spokane, Spokane co., Washington m. 25 Aug 1925 Deep River, Poweshiek county, Iowa to Gale Elizabeth Height; his father was John Edward Watts II, b. 18 Sep 1867 Barnes City, Mahaska county, Iowa d. 22 Sep 1959 What Cheer, Keokuk county, Iowa m. 16 May 1894 Thornburg, Keokuk county, Iowa to Anna Louise Hall; his father John Edward Watts b. 15 Sep 1826 somewhere in Muskingum county, Ohio d. 15 Jul 1887 Barnes City, Mahaska county, Iowa m. 2 Feb 1852 Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Iowa to Sarah Matilda Waddell; his father Allen Watts b. abt. 1801 somewhere in Maryland d. supposedly in Montgomery county, Indiana (I have not been able to locate when or exactly where in Montgomery county that he died) m. 5 Jan 1826 to Elizabeth Edwards. I don't have any knowledge of who Allen's parents or siblings are nor likewise no family data on who Elizabeth Edwards parents were. In my research, I find that the name Allen is almost non-existant in any Watts family. My question to your readers is if anyone has any references to an Allen Watts in their family tree, I would appreciate hearing from them. I would also appreciate receiving any vital records data from Maryland such as census records, marriage records, death records, wills, etc. Also any Watts ancestries that may have a connection to Muskingum county, Ohio or Montgomery county, Indiana. I published my Watts Family Tree in 1981 and have pretty much traced all of John Edward and Sarah Matilda Waddell Watts descendants up to all of the present day generation and anyone who descends from one of their thirteen children can contact me for further information regarding a copy of this genealogy. In past years I have subscribed to the Well Newsletter, The Watts Crossing Newsletter, many genealogical publications from Iowa, Ohio, and Maryland. I might add that my wifes maiden is Evans and her Evans ancestry goes back to Kentucky and have collected a lot of miscellaneous Watts data regarding Kentucky, only because of my research for Evans in Kentucky  My email address: jkwatts@icehouse.net I would appreciate being added to your email list to receive your newsletter. Sincerly, John H. Watts Jr. P.S. I want to compliment you on this newsletter. It is excellent! One thing that I would like to see more of, however, would be pedigree charts. 

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WATTS IN THE WAR OF 1812 

From:  dlaffert@netdoor.com (Diane Lafferty) 

Sierra is offering a free search of their War of 1812 database for a limited time at: 

http://www.sierrahome.com/familytree/records/ 

I found 245 Watts listed.  Maybe it could help someone. 

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REMINISCENCES OF ANSLUM LYNCH WATTS ON CIVIL WAR DAYS

PART ONE 

From:  saramcb@socket.net (SARA GRIMES MCBETH) 

Steven Watts gave mother a copy of a book edited by a John E Olson.  and it seems to be done for the Army 

Anslum is our Uncle line.  The Watts that was already in Missouri is our line.  I do not know what is new material  in the book because the story was Uncle Anslum's and  the rest of the information was history and in the bibliography 

The copy from Stephen Watts is Reminiscences of Anslum Lynch Watts on Civil War Days

A Private in the 21st Virginia Cavalry and 36th Virginia Infantry

Edited by John Eric Olson  

 It was one night in the winter of 1923 as we sat around the old wood fire in the old home near Elsberry, Missouri that my father told me the  following Civil War experiences which I jotted down just as he told them to  me and without his knowing that I was jotting them down. 

 Arretta Lynch Watts 

  "It was in July 1863 that I went to war. I had to report first at  Washington Salt Works. Branson Merriweather was Captain and William E.  Jones was Brigadier General. I did my first fighting in Eastern Tennessee  where I remember I lost my first horse. I was assigned to the 21st Virginia Cavalry which  operated for the most part in the Shenandoah Valley. The  first horse I lost starved to death. He got so weak that he couldn't go.  I  hated to see him in this condition so I took him out to some farm people  one night and begged them to keep him for me until he recuperated. When I went back to get him, the Yankees had stolen him. My father was a great lover of horses and I could never stand to see them suffer. 

I was under General Early much of the time in the Shenandoah Valley. I well  remember the Battle of   Piedmont. Of the 500 of  us dismounted cavalrymen in that battle, only 100 were left. General Jones was killed.  As soon as I got a horse, I went back to my company commanded by Fitzhugh Lee. I was in the Shenandoah Valley when it was raided by Sheridan. In fact, I was in the Shenandoah Valley most of the war. Once, I went home on a seven day furlough to get a horse and stayed fourteen days. I met my  company this time out about Lynchburg. I remember well how hard my father and mother took it when I left.  Being unable to get a horse, I served in the infantry about four months. I was captured March 1, 1865 at Fisher's Hill, twelve miles from Staunton, by Sheridan's army. 1300 of us were captured. It was a very muddy time. The Captain said to me, "Surrender." I pulled off my cap. He said, "That's a d--- poor way to surrender." I then threw down my gun. They marched us to winchester, which was 106 miles away, put us on stock cars and took us to Harper's Ferry and then to Baltimore.  

There, we were put on a boat and  taken to Fort Delaware in the Chesapeake Bay where we were put in prison. I was on this crowded train all night and half of the next day. We were so crowded that we had to stand and I was near the engine. I got so hot that when I got off, I took a terrible cold.  We had very little to eat in prison -- three crackers, a cup of  soup and  a bit of meat was all. Once, I wanted to write a letter home and sold my day's rations for a postage stamp. I was released from prison on June 21, 1865.    

My brother, Daniel, was in the same prison for fourteen months. We  had not heard from him for so long, we had given him up as dead.  Ambrose Hewitt was captured when I was and told Daniel, who had already

 been in prison some months, that I was there. One day, Daniel recognized me. I was at the pump getting a drink. He stepped up and said, "Anslum, is this you?" We both stared at each other, overjoyed to find each other.  Daniel was in the 5th barracks and I was in the 17th.  The island on which the prison was located in the Chesapeake Bay contained  95 acres. I was often assigned pickett duty. There were little stands about the prison where one could buy things if he had the money. ! had none. I wrote only two letters while there.

Once while in prison, I was very sick from eating too many beans. One of  the officers had given them to me. They were so good and I was very hungry  that I ate too many. I remember how terribly sick I was.  

When we left prison June 21, 1865, they took us to Loundville.  From there, we walked 18 miles home. I was so sick that Daniel and Ambrose  Hewitt had to support me. We had just one pair of shoes among us and took turns wearing them. John Crank was with us, too. we got home June 27.  Mother was in the garden getting butterbeans. The butterbean poles were between us and her, but she managed to get to us.

It was while we were in prison that Lincoln was killed. It was April.  Crepe was hung everywhere and those words were put up where all could see them,  "ALL NATIONS MOURN THE PATRIOT SLAIN." It was raining that morning – it was that morning I remember we were being taken across the bridge.  Someone

crowded me off and I fell into the water waist deep and took a terrible cold.  The Battle of Winchester stands out clearly in my mind. We had such hard fighting there.  Daniel was in Stonewall Jackson's Brigade. He was in the tent the night that General Jackson gave orders to his men to shoot any who came through  -- he heard him give the command. 

 It was in the Battle of Winchester that Alex Sledd's leg was shot off.  Daniel was in the 58th Virginia Infantry.  It was one day soon after that Hunter was trying to raid Lynchburg, but we kept him out. My captain -- Captain Gott-~ said that since I was so near I might go home for the night and overtake them the next day. We were only about a mile and a half from my home. Father saw me coming up the hill and thought at first I was a Yankee.  He got his gun~ Mother was carrying a bucket of water on her head from

The spring at the foot of the hill. She grabbed me -- I have forgotten what happened to the bucket of water. The next day, father took me on horseback to my company which was about fifteen or twenty miles away by that time.  How I hated to see father return alone. 

I remember well the fight at Mooreville, Virginia. It was in the western part of the state -- I lost my hat there.  We lost most  of our men there. There were only two in our company when the battle was over., Johnson was our  General. He cried like a baby when he saw the condition of our army.  Here, the Yankees rushed in on us early one morning. Most of them were drunk. There wasa regular stampede.  The Yankees burned so many of our barns and mills in the Shenandoah Valley.  Richmond was the capitol of the Confederacy and Jefferson Davis president.  I was in sight of Washington once during the war. Oh yes, I meant to tell you that when Hunter made his raid toward Lynchburg and came within sight of our home, father hid his meat. He covered it with big rocks. I'm told that old rock pile is still standing. ~'d rather see that old rock pile than anything in Virginia today.  I wasn't able to do anything for several weeks after we got home from the war. Daniel helped cut wheat. The first money I made after the war was on ginseng. We all went up in the mountains and dug ginseng roots. We each a pound and got $5.00 a pound for it. Then I dug sassafras root and picked chestnuts and sold them. I made only one crop in Virginia after the war. 

We had a letter from Uncle Charles Christian, my mother's brother, who had gone out to Missouri and in which he bragged up that state. The Robinsons and Clarks were going out there, so Daniel decided to go with them. I stayed with father and helped him put in the crop. Daniel wrote letters about the wonderful Missouri land, so we all decided to come. We got to Missouri about Christmas 1866. We couldn't tell they had had a war in Missouri. In Virginia, the re were great ditches everywhere." 

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BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN WATTS AND LUCY DALTON FAMILY 

With the increased use of the Internet I am finding an error in the history of John Watts and Lucy Dalton being repeated with a snowball effect.  That Error is the one that John Watts and his children were born in Jamestown, Virginia.  I have seen their births in Jamestown, Albemarle Co., VA.  Jamestown was never in Albemarle County and is not even close only to say they are in the same state.  I have seen the birthplace as Jamestown, James City, Virginia.  Here attempts have been made to put Jamestown in the correct county but still far from the land owned by the family.  I have never seen any deeds of this family in James City County.  I even have a book, written only a few years ago that starts out with a whole chapter on Jamestown!  This author obviously never bothered to verify her research before printing the book.  If you are like me, there are many people in your database in which you have “collected” data and you have depended on the research of others.  This is one error in research I would like to try and halt.  If you have any of these people in your database please read below and then make the changes.  Let’s not continue to spread false data.  

John Watts was most likely born in either Culpeper County or Albemarle County, Virginia.  I have seen a variety of counties listed as his birthplace including Jamestown.  John’s father, Jacob, inherited 150 acres of land in 1749 from the will of this father.  When he sold the land in 1761 the land was described as adjacent to John Cave’s land in Culpeper Co.  Thomas Watts, Jacob’s father, owned land in Orange County and when Culpeper was formed in 1748, part of the land remained in Orange County while other parts became part of Culpeper.  From the 1761 deed we know Jacob’s inheritance was in Culpeper.   

In the 1761 deed we also learn Jacob was a “planter” living in Albemarle Co.  Albemarle County was formed in 1744 and did not include any part of Culpeper or Orange Counties.  Did Jacob ever live on his inheritance in Culpeper?  Jacob was 19 when his father died and he held on to the land of his inheritance for 12 years.  Did he hold on to it because he was living there?  When did he move to Albemarle County?    The births of his first four children were between abt. 1750 and 1756.  Elijah, Mildred, William and John could have been born in Culpeper or Albemarle.  It is unlikely they would have been born in a different County and there is no evidence Jacob live anywhere else except that he left his will in Orange County.  Shortly after 1861 we see Jacob purchasing land in Albemarle Co.  There is no doubt that the remaining six children of Jacob Watts and Elizabeth Durrett were born in Albemarle County. 

John Watts then may have been born in either Culpeper or Albemarle but if he was born in Culpeper County he moved with his parents shortly after his birth to Albemarle.  All of John’s land purchases are in Albemarle County.  John left a will there in 1823, which is where he died.  ALL of John Watts and Lucy Dalton’s children were born in Albemarle County. 

So where does this rumor come from that John Watts and his children were born in Jamestown Virginia?  Some time ago a descendant of Robert H. Watts, son of John Watts, submitted their ancestry to the LDS ancestral file.  This file contains the birthplaces as Jamestown, Albemarle Co. VA.  They were ½ right.  From there people, including myself, copied the information and did not give it a whole lot of thought so the error continues as the error is multiplied and more and more people copy it wrong.  From the files I have seen on the Internet, some people have taken the Albemarle out and put in the correct county in which Jamestown is in, James City County.  Others have left Jamestown in Albemarle.  It is easy to look at a map and realize Jamestown is a long way off from Albemarle.  I have yet to see any evidence other than that of the LDS Ancestrial file that places this family in Jamestown, Virginia. 

So why would a descendant of John Watts believe they were born in Jamestown?  At least one other descendant and I have been trying to figure that out and have done a little research.  Jacob Watts’s land is described as being on the “North Fork of the Rivanna River”.  The North Fork of the Rivanna River is was at one time the James River.  Could this have anything to do with it?  John purchased his plantation from the land his father Jacob owned on the Rivanna.  The problem is that the river was called the “North Fork of the Rivanna” at the time Jacob and John lived there. 

Another possible explanation could be that the town of Leon in Madison County Virginia was once named James City.  Camp Gilliam, a Watts descendant, emailed the librarian Floreine G. Fitzwater and she messaged him back that the James City was in Culpeper until 1793 when Madison County was formed from Culpeper.  James City was not changed to Leon until 1840.  This would be a logical explanation for the births of Elijah, Mildred, William and John being born in “James City”, as we know that Jacob’s land was in Culpeper.  Jacob’s brother, William, also inherited land in Culpeper, which later became part of Madison County.  If the four children of Jacob Watts were born in James City, it would be in Culpeper County and NOT Albemarle.  It is just a complete fallacy that John Watts’ children would have been born in James City, let alone Jamestown.

Lori Linnell

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FRANCIS MARION WATTS   

    There have been several compiliations made of the family of Francis Marion Watts and Martha Amanda Watts, who were my great grandparents, some of them very confusing.  The following is is the correct information. 

Francis Marion Watts

Born: Mar. 15, 1833

Died: Nov. 17, 1926

Sex: m

Father: John (Little John) Watts

Mother: Bathsheba (Bashie) Wiggins

Wife: Martha Amanda Watts  b. Mar. 7, 1835; d. Aug. 28, 1912

Married: Nov. 2, 1854

Number of children: 10

    1.  George Claiborne (Clabe) Watts  b. July 20, 1855; d.Dec. 31, 1928

    2.  William Owen Watts  b. Sept. 19, 1858; d. Mar. 25, 1840

    3.  Thomas Evander Watts  b. Oct. 9, 1859; d. Nov. 4, 1861

    4.  Angeline Watts  b. Jan. 14, 1861; d. Nov. 4, 1861

    5.  Eldridge Watts  b. Sept. 9, 1864; d. Mar. 3, 1865

    6.  Reuben Watts (Uncle Rube)  b. Sept. 13, 1866; d. Feb. 18, 1857

    7.  Ophelia (Ophie) Watts  b. Dec. 25, 1868; d. June 10, 1922

    8.  Mollie Mae Watts  b. Dec. 6, 1871; d. July 1, 1946

    9.  Amanda (Mandy) Watts  b. April 19, 1874; d. 1943

    10. Martha Watts  b. April 19, 1877; d. Oct. 12, 1882

Buried: New Hope Cemetary, Covington County, Mississippi.

    Francis Marion Watts is remembered by his many descendants as "Grandpa France".

    Martha Amanda Watts was the daughter of John (Big John) Watts and Penelope Lott.  Big John and Little John were first cousins.  She and Grandpa France were double first cousins or, to use the correct term, they were "first cousins once removed!"

Owen C. Girley

ocgirley@megagate.com

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MISC WATTS IN FOUNTAIN CO. INDIANA    

These are from a book of abstracts taken from The History of Fountain County, Indiana by Hiram W. Beckwith, published in 1881 by the H.H. Hill and W. Iddings Publishers of Chicago. My apologies, but I just noticed I forgot to note the name of the book but it was published by Heritage House, Indiana Genealogical Publishing Co., of Danville, Illinois, 1968. (Next time at the library I can look again for the name of the book if you need it before you include these items) 

Calvin MYERS (404). b. Jan. 7, 1837, Fount. Co., s. of Wm & Anna M., m. Nov. 4, 1856, to Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1839, Fount. Co., dau of Issac & Maria (WATTS) MARSHALL; Ch. John S., Wm. H., Issac T., Milton E., Albert G., & Mary J. 

James WATTS (409-410)., b. Oct. 18, 1824, Scioto Co., s. of David & Sarah (Backus) W., both from Pa.; To Montgomery Co., Ind., abt. 1830, then Park Co. & in 1874 to Fount. Co.; David d. Fount. Co. in Nov. 1876; Sarah d. 1876; They had 5 s. & 5 dau.; James m. Margaret A. SOWERS, b. Dec. 24, 1826, N.C. & came with her parents when she was 11; Ch.: Melissa A. (d.); David A., b. Jan. 8, 1850, Fount. Co., m. Mary E., b. Oct. 30, 1858, Parke Co., dau. of Jacob & Elizabeth EWBANK; Solomon V. (d.); Mary C. (Mrs. L. BOWSHER) & Susan V. 

Joseph LINDLEY (414-415).  b. Jan. 14, 1811, Orange Co. N.C., s. of John, b.

N.C.; d. Fount. Co. & Elizabeth (THOMPSON) L. b. Pa.; d. Parke Co., Ind.; To

Parke Co. in 1838 & Fount. Co. in 1852; Joseph m. 1835 in N.C. to Nancy, b.

Nov. 4, 1813, Chatham Co. N.C., dau. of John b. N.C. & Cynthia (BALDWIN)

LEWIS b. Va.;  Ch.: John W., Emeline (Mrs. Solomon SOWERS); Lucinda E. (Mrs.

Michael WATTS); Elizabeth (Mrs. Andrew SOWERS); Wm. Manley; Erven &

James A. 

Contributed by Melody -  MKWTB@aol.com

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SOME WATTS MARRIAGES IN MISSOURI  1851-1900

Source Information:
Dodd, Jordan. Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900. Orem, UT: Liahona Research, 2000. Taken from: Lafayette County, Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900 County Court Records located at Lexington, Missouri or Family History Library microfilm # 0959414-0959418; Ray County, Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900 County Court Records located at Richmond, Missouri or Family History Library microfilm # 0959300, 0959722-0959723; Stoddard County, Missouri Marriages, 1856-1900 County Court Records located at Bloomfield, Missouri or Family History Library microfilm # 1006817-1006819. The years 1856-1862 were extracted at the County Courthouse in Bloomfield, Missouri. 

Groom                                     Bride                               Marriage Date           County                        State

ZACH HUFFMAN                 ANN WATTS                   15 Sep 1872               Lafayette                       MO

CHARLES W. WATTS          GEORGIE HACKLEY       26 Jan 1898               Lafayette                       MO

NATHANIEL BROWNING   JULIE  WATTS                  21 Jul 1881                STOD                          MO

R. J. GOODMAN                   MARGARET WATTS         2 Jun 1880                STOD                          MO

R. J. GOODMAN                   MARGARET WATTS        3 Jun 1880                 STOD                          MO

DANIEL LARGE                    MARTHA E. WATTS        24 Jul 1894                 STOD                         MO

JOHN McMILLEN                 DELIA WATTS                  3 Oct 1889                 STOD                         MO

JAMES H. POWELL              HATTIE A. WATTS          29 May 1892               STOD                         MO

WILLIAM SHARMON          LULA WATTS                  27 Aug 1899                STOD                         MO

JACK STEPHENS                  MAUDIE E. WATTS         8 May 1892                STOD                         MO

HIRAM I. WATTS                  SARAH L. SITZ               11 Oct 1895                 STOD                         MO

LUTHER WATTS                   MINNIE ADKISSON      25 Dec 1895                 STOD                        MO

WILLIAM E.  WATTS           ICA HARRIS                    14 Jun 1895                  STOD                         MO

FOUTAIN E. WEAVER         LANORD WATTS            3 Jul 1890                    STOD                         MO

JAMES            WRIGHT        PRICE WATTS                 24 Feb 1884                 STOD                        MO 

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DESCENDANTS OF JACOB AND MARTHA WATTS 

From:  Mlhunt3242@aol.com

This is the Watts information I have gathered thus far: 

1 Jacob Watts

Born:         1815

Death:   abt 1870 (as per pension papers filed by Sarah Ann Watts, daughter in 1919)

Occ.  farmer 

Spouse:    Martha Watts

Birth:        1823

Mother:     unknown

Married      1841, Lumpkin Co. Georgia 

Children:    Rufus (1841-       )

                 Housten  (1842-    )

                 Jasper N (1845 -   )

                 Catharine (1847-    )

                 Samuel Levi (1851-1927)

                 Sara(Sarah) Ann (1853 - 1927)   my gr grandmother

                 James Clabourn  (1856 -        )

                 Lurena     (1858 -     )

                 Mary Malissa  (1859  -        )

                 Martha    (1866 -       ) 

1.1  Rufus Watts

Birth:  1841   Georgia

Spouse:    Sara Ann Presley

Married:   27 Jan 1865, Blount Co Alabama 

1.2  Housten Watts

Birth:  1845    Tennessee 

1.3  Jasper N Watts

Birth:     1845 Tennessee

Spouse:    Sarah I. Carpenter

Married:   25 Jan 1864, Blount Co Alabama 

1.4  Catharine Watts

Birth:       abt 1847, Tennessee 

1.5  Samuel Levi Watts

Birth:  16 Oct, 1851   Huntsville(Madison Co) Alabama

Death:  20 Sep 1927, Athens Ala. 

Spouse:  Eliza Jane Thomas

Death:     Athens, Ala

Married:  10 Dec 1878, Athens Ala 

Children:  Reuben Andrew (1880-1963)

               James Floyd (1882 -  )

                Mary (1886-   )

                John (1890-1948) 

               Julie (1893 -   )

               Nan (1895 -    )

               Kate Rosezela (1897 - )

               Herbert Hearst (1906 -  ) 

1.5.1   Reuben Andrew Watts

Birth:  30 Jan 1880, Athens, Ala

Death:  11 Jul 1963, Royalton, Illinois 

Spouse:  Anna Eliza Daffron

Father:  William Daffron

Mother:  Sarah Gann

Married:  15 Apr 1903, Adger, Alabama 

Children:  Robert Lee (1904-1924)

               Sara Jane (1905 - 1906)

               Arthur Burness (1906 - 1981)

               Viva Beatrice (1908 -     )

               Anna Beulah  (1910 - 1966)

               George Andrew (1912 -    )

               James Ellis (1914 - 1987)

               Harry Charles (1917 - 1983)

               Ella Mae (1920 - 1978)

               Floyd Eugene (1923 - 1969)

               Hattie Bell (1924-) 

1.5.1.1 Robert Lee Watts

Birth:      6 May 1904

Death:  1924 royalton, Illinois 

1.5.1.2 Sara Jane Watts

Birth:  10 Aug 1905, Adger Alabama

Death:  1 Jan 1906, Adger Alabama 

1.5.1.3 Arthur Burness Watts

Born:  23 Dec 1906, Adger Alabama

Death:  27 Oct. 1981, Herrin, Illinois 

1.5.1.4 Viva Beatrice Watts

Birth:  15 Jul 1908, Kimberly Ala 

1.5.1.5  Anna Beulah Watts

Birth:  23 Aug 1910, Adger Alabama

Death:  12 Aug 1966, Pontiac, Michigan 

1.5.1.6  George Andrew Watts

Birth:  21 Nov 1912, Adger, Alabama

Spouse:  Olive Margaret Gritzinger

Married:  13 Aug 1937, Pontiac, Michigan 

Children:          Kenneth George (1938-1989)

                       Vernon Fred   (1940-)

                       Ellis Floyd (1942 -)

                       Ruth Ann (1944-)

                       Nancy Sue (1947-)

                       Allen Lee (1949-)

                       Bruce Terry (1951-)

                       Beverly Jean (1952-) 

1.5.1.6.1  Kenneth George Watts

Birth:     16 Feb 1938, Pontiac Michigan

Death:    18 Oct 1989, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.6.2  Vernon Fred Watts

Birth        26 May 1940, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1,6.3  Ellis Floyd Watts

Birth       15 Dec 1942 Pontiac, Michigan 

1.5.1.6.4  Ruth Ann Watts

Birth:      13 Sep 1944, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.6.5  Nancy Sue Watts

Birth:        2 Oct 1947, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.6.6  Allen Lee Watts

Birth:       24 Mar 1949 Pontiac, Michigan 

1.5.1.6.7  Bruce Terry Watts

Birth:        2 March 1951, Pontiac, Michigan 

1.5.1.6.8  Beverly Jean Watts

Birth:      24 Jan 1952, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.7  James Ellis Watts

Birth:      22 Nov 1914 Adger Alabama

Death:    29 Sep 1983, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.8  Harry Charles Watts

Birth:     25 Dec 1917  Adger, Alabama

Death:   29 Sep 1983, Pontiac Michigan 

1.5.1.9  Ella Mae Watts

Birth:    20 Feb 1920, Royalton, Illinois

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WATTS DAR RECORDS 

Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (145 Vols.)  

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 24
page 310

Mrs. Clara M. Robinson Williams.
DAR ID Number: 23885
Born in Thomaston, Maine.
Wife of Thomas Colley Williams.
Descendant of Moses Robinson, of Maine.
Daughter of Edward Warren Robinson and Harriet Watts, his wife.
Granddaughter of William Watts (1804-66) and Elisabeth Trussell, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Joseph Watts (1773-1841), and Sarah Stone, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Samuel Watts (1745-1816), and Mary Robinson (1752-1835), his wife, m. 1772.
Gr.-gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Moses Robinson and — McFarland, his wife.
[p.310] Moses Robinson was a member of the first Committee of Safety of Knox county, Me., 1775. It was to this committee that the Provincial Congress distributed the powder for alarming the inhabitants in case of need. He was born in Cushing, 1731, where he died.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 24
page 310

Miss Mary J. Watts.
DAR ID Number: 23888
Born in St. George, Maine.
Descendant of James Mills and of Moses Robinson, of Maine.
Daughter of Samuel Watts and Clarissa B. Mills, his wife.
Granddaughter of Joseph Watts and Sarah Stone, his wife; James Mills, Jr., (b. 1783), and Mary Hathorn, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Samuel Watts and Mary Robinson, his wife; James Mills and Clarissa Burt, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Moses Robinson and — McFarlane, his wife.
James Mills served as a private in the Massachusetts militia.

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Miss Estelle Farrington.
DAR ID Number: 28011
Born in Marysville, California.
Descendant of Moses Robinson, of Maine.
Daughter of Seth Crane Farrington and Sarah Jane Watts, his wife.
Granddaughter of Charles Watts and Sarah Watts, his wife.
[p.5] Gr.-granddaughter of Joseph Watts (1773-1841) and Sarah Stone, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Samuel Watts (1745-1816) and Mary Robinson, (1752-1835), his wife, m. 1772.
Gr.-gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Moses Robinson and … McFarlane, his wife,
Moses Robinson was a member of the first committee of Knox county, Maine, 1775. He was born in Cushing, 1731, where he died.

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Mrs. Helen Garrison Hunt.
DAR ID Number: 25704
Born in Detroit, Michigan.
Wife of Henry C. Hunt.
Descendant of Ephraim Garrison.
Daughter of Edwin R. Garrison and Margaret Miller, his wife.
Granddaughter of John Jay Garrison (1772-1864) and Rebecca Mills, his first wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Ephraim Garrison and Elizabeth Watts, his wife.
Ephraim Garrison served on tours of duty and in guarding the frontier from incursions of the Indians. He was born, 1738, in New Amsterdam, N. Y.

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Miss Estelle Farrington.
DAR ID Number: 28011
Born in Marysville, California.
Descendant of Moses Robinson, of Maine.
Daughter of Seth Crane Farrington and Sarah Jane Watts, his wife.
Granddaughter of Charles Watts and Sarah Watts, his wife.
[p.5] Gr.-granddaughter of Joseph Watts (1773-1841) and Sarah Stone, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Samuel Watts (1745-1816) and Mary Robinson, (1752-1835), his wife, m. 1772.
Gr.-gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Moses Robinson and … McFarlane, his wife,
Moses Robinson was a member of the first committee of Knox county, Maine, 1775. He was born in Cushing, 1731, where he died.  

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Mrs. Ida Lamb Austin.
DAR ID Number: 29450
Born in Olin, Iowa.
Wife of Frank E. Austin.
Descendant of Thomas C. Fredericks, of Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Jacob Lamb and Mary Easterly, his wife.
Granddaughter of Samuel Easterly and Hannah Watts, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Watts and Catharine Fredericks (1776-1848), his wife, m. 1798.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Thomas C. Fredericks and Margaret Tibbetts, his wife.
Thomas C. Fredericks served in the Pennsylvania militia and his name is found, 1781, among the men who received depreciated money for pay.  

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Mrs. Susan Bushnell Hughson.
DAR ID Number: 29587
Born in Bath, New York.
Wife of Frederick William Hughson.
Descendant of Lieut. David Arnold, of Massachusetts.
Daughter of Watts Bushnell and Harriet Wheeler, his wife.
Granddaughter of Harvey Bushnell and Emeline Arnold, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of William Arnold and Margaret Washburn, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of David Arnold and Phoebe Pratt, his wife.
David Arnold, (1732-1810), served as lieutenant at the Lexington Alarm. He was born in Braintree, Mass., where he died.

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