Person:Jemima Watts (2)

1867 Sept. 16, Conkeys Store, IL. Marion Jones wrote his "respected" cousin Jane Love: "I Saw Jemimia Watts yesterday . She has not had very good health for some time / she is Staying at Sa[ml] Dalbys at presant."

1870 March 5, Will of Sarah Jones, Hamilton Co., OH; beneficiaries include: "To my neice [sic] Jemima Watts Daughter of Nancy Watts., $25.00 Twenty five dollars to draw legal intrest from my Death untill the Farm is Sold." (Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff sold the farm and personal property in 1887 and moved to Mason, Warren Co., OH.)

1870 Vermilion Co., IL, census, p.312A, Oakwoods Twp., Aug. 11, 1870, William M. Ray: JEMIMA WATTS, 29 F W, IN; with her sister, 275/274, Samuel DOLBY, 40 M W, farmer, $3200 real, $800 personal, IL; Sarah C., 40 F W, keeping house, OH; Franklin, 17 M W, farm laborer, IL; Ada, 16 F W, IL; Vernon, 14 M W, farm laborer, IL; Marietta, 10 F W, IL; Otis, 8 M W, IL; Opelia, 8 F W, IL; Rosa, 6 F W, IL.

1872 June 27, Jemmimah M. Watts md. John M. Cox, Fountain Co., IN, Book 6, p.484. (Ancestry.com and GenealogyLibrary.com)

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from Sarah Dolby in which she writes that . . . Jemima Watts is married to a Mr. Cox / he is poor in worlds goods, but is a good man."

1880 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.47C, Shawnee Twp., June 29, 1880, O.D. Osborn: 138/138, JOHN M. COX, W M 35, head, farmer, IN NC PA; Jemima M., W F 38, wife, house keeping, IN blank blank; John Wenini___, W M 10, boarder, servant, IN KY OH; Alberta WATTS, W F 13, boarder, IN IN IN.

1887 March 8, John Cox died and is buried in Portland Cemetery (also known as Fountain Cemetery), Shawnee Twp., Fountain Co., IN. No record of Jemima has been located after the 1880 census -- if she remarried, when she died, or where she is buried. --Gary Purviance, e-mail attachment, Jan. 3, 2005

1891 Sept. 1, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "we do not know any thing about Watts shildren / It been about 20 yrs ago since we heard from them and Jemima was not expected to live. And Aunt answered her letter but never recieved any answer." 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