Person:Chester Watts (2)

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Chester WATTS
b. Vance Twp., Vermilion Co., IL
d.Bef 26 Mar 1875 Vance Twp., Vermilion Co., IL
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m. 28 Apr 1857
  1. Chester WATTS - Bef 1875
  2. Byron WATTS1858 -
  3. Theodocia WATTS1860 - 1862
  4. Ida WATTSAbt 1862 -
  5. Alberta "Bertie" WATTSAbt 1867 -
  6. Grace WATTSAbt 1869 - Bef 1875
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Name Chester WATTS
Gender Male
Birth? Vance Twp., Vermilion Co., IL
Death? Bef 26 Mar 1875 Vance Twp., Vermilion Co., IL
Reference Number 3577

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from Sarah Dolby in which she writes that . . . Evan Watts, wife & one child* are dead." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

  • It's not known if this refers to Chester or Grace.

Chester Watts, son of E & A, is buried near his mother in Bodkin Cemetery, Vance Twp., Vermilion Co., IL; the transcription has that he d. in Jan. 1881 which is not correct. Chester died before March 26, 1875, when Samuel Dalbey appeared in Vermilion County Court with Byron Watts who asked that Samuel be appointed his guardian. Samuel also requested the court appoint him guardian of Ida and Alberta Watts as their parents were both dead. This suggests that Byron, Ida, and Alberta were Evan and Angeline's only surviving children. --Gary Purviance, e-mail attachment, Jan. 3, 2005

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