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Born: Unknown
Died:
Mother: Mary (Polly) Ross
Father: John Watts
Married: Sarah
She was born February 22, 1838, and died September 15, 1856. Burial: Watts Cemetery near Rogersville, Webster County, Missouri
Sources and Additional Information:
1870 Benton, Webster County, Missouri
96-92 Watts, William 47 TN
Nancy C. 31 VA
Miller, Susannah 15 MO
Watts, John 87 VA
Subject: Letter by Susan Rogers Martin
from TX
Date: 05/22/2000 3:07:58 AM GMT Daylight Time
From: linne@quiknet.com (Linne Gravestock)
To: JRogers722@aol.com
Dear Jerry,
On 20 March, I read a really wonderful letter that you put on the Green Co., MO list. It was written by Susan Rogers Martin. I'm extremely interested in this letter, as I'm doing my best to track my own family history via our Bowles line, and you mentioned Mack Rogers' second wife, Susan Catherine Bowles.
And my ggggrandparents were Benjamin Bowles and Elizabeth Jeffries. Elizabeth's aunt, Sarah Jeffries, married a William Watts. This group went from VA to Barren Co., KY to TN and on to MO by 1825. Then on to south TX by 1827.
As far out on any of the Bowles branches that you go, no matter where in the U.S., most of them will carry the oral history that we are related to the Cherokee Chief John Bowles.
For all these reasons, I'm wondering if Susan Rogers Martin's family was related to my family. Would you be able to send me a copy of the complete letter? And if you would, any information you have on the larger group of families of Rogers, Martin, Bowles, Watts---and any allied families that traveled with them, or married into their families, where they migrated when they went west---anything is helpful.
Many, many thanks for your sending us this wonderful letter!
Yours, Linne Bowles Gravestock
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