Iowa Family Group Sheet for the WATTS, Robert Ramsey Family

Submitted by: Carol Williamson 


HUSBAND: WATTS, Robert Ramsey
Birth date: 11/13/1838
Birthplace: Dundee, Scotland
Death date: 08/05/1903
Place of death: Hillsboro, Iowa
Burial date: 08/07/1903
Burial place: Hillsboro, Iowa
Other Spouse: 
Father: WATTS, Isaac
Mother: UNKNOWN, Mary

Marriage date: 02/23/1864
Marriage place: Bonaparte, Iowa

WIFE: JEWETT, Nelle (Ellen)
Birth date: 05/20/1843
Birthplace: Van Buren County, Iowa
Death date: 01/04/1908
Place of death: Hillsboro, Iowa
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Other Spouse: 
Father: JEWETT, Daniel
Mother: UNKNOWN


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: WATTS, Frank J
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Child No. 2: WATTS, Robert E
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Death date: 09/25/1913
Place of death: Hillsboro, Iowa
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Spouse's name: HORNBAKER, Carrie Venus
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Child No. 3: WATTS, Alfred
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Child No. 4: WATTS, Carlton C
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Spouse's name: WILLIAMSON, Anna L
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Documentation and Sources:

Per obituary in Hillsboro, Iowa newspaper, spent boyhood days in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to a farm 2 miles SW of Bonaparte, Iowa in 1853.  Enlisted in union army 1861: Co G 3rd Regiment, Iowa, Vol. Cavalry; 1864-located to farm 2 miles S of Bonaparte, IA until 1868; moved to Pella Iowa & worked as a merchant. Treasurer of Iowa Central University of Pella; in 1881 returned to Bonaparte, IA area; moved to a farm 3 miles S of Hillsboro in 1893with wife & son Carlton.

I have a number of obituaries and articles including essays written by Nelle Jewett Watts (wife of Robert Ramsey Watts) from the Hillsboro Iowa newspaper from 1894-1905.  Nelle Jewett Watts pasted the articles into an 1890 book "Report of the Secretary of Agriculture".  Nelle (Ellen) Jewett Watts was my great, great grandmother


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