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GEN.  PG.  PG.  NAME		BIRTH	DEATH	MARRIED	WHEN

		the battle of Alamance in 1771.  Issue follows:
V     2    2	Benjamin Watts	?	1786	Frances Teague	?
V     2    2	James      "	1762	1823	Lurana Teague	?
V     2    2	Nellie     "	?	?	Silar		?

V     2    2	Benjamin Watts, oldest son of Thomas Watts and first
		wife, name not known, married Frances Teague, daugh-
		ter of Rev. Isaac Teague, Pastor of Sandy Ridge Bapt-
		ist Church in Chatham Co., N. C.  Isaac Teague was
		a brother to Lurana Teague, who married James Watts.
		Wife of the first Watts in Alexander Co.  Issue follows:
VI     2    2	Frances Watts   No other record
VI     2    2	Rebecca   "	"    "      "
VI     2    2	Nancy     "	"    "      "

VI     2    2	James Watts, second son of Thomas Watts and Eliza-
		beth Harrington, married Lurana Teague daughter of
		William	Teague and Elinor Teague, pioneers to what
		is now Alexander Co.  Issue follows:
VI     2    3	William	Watts	12/26, 1780 12/12, 1862 Elizabeth Barnes
								  2/12, 1808
VI     2    3	Thomas Watts	4/16, 1783 3/26, 1860 	Mary Teague 8/25, 1868
VI     2    3	Isaac    "	1785	?		Sally Loudermilk ?
VI     2    4	Benjamin "	2/10, 1789 1/1, 1872	1st Mary Dodson  ?
							2nd Sarah Meadows ?
VI     2    4	Mary     "	2/2, 1791 11/4, 1854 	John Teague	 ?
VI     2    4	James	 "	11/1, 1793 1/9, 1832	Rebecca Jones 12/15, 1813
VI     2    2	Nellie   "	1794		1804	No issue Age 10 yr.
VI     2    4	Bettie	 "	1796		?	Andrew Steele	?
VI     2    5	John     "	1798      5/16, 1855	Aseneth Steele  ?
VI     2    5	Magness  "	8/24, 1800 5/27, 1875	1st Margaret Steele ?
							2nd Jane Clodfelter
								11/24, 1868
VI     2    5	Moses    "	8/10, 1803 9/3, 1859 	Celia Laxton    ?

		When James Watts and Lurana came to Wilkes Co., now
		Alexander Co. in 1796, he received a State Grant for
		100 acres of land on Long Branch on March 2, 1803.
		Also one for 150 acres on Beaver Dam Branch on Dec.
		3, 1806.  His last domicile was on the west side of
		Lower Little River overlooking a fertile valley.  The
		first Watts reunion was held near the old home site in
		1925.  A beautiful spring was at the end of the long
		table walled with rock 100 years before by James Watts.
		One of his grandsons, Joseph Watts, was present
		weighing more than 330 lbs.  One of James' great,
		great, great grandaughters, Mrs. Gladys Kerley, now
		owns this land at this date, 1966, address Taylorsville,
		N. C., Route #2.  The clan has been holding annual
		reunions since 1925 at Three Forks Baptist Church, the
		old burying ground for the clan.  There are more than
		15,000 direct descendents of James and Lurana.  250 or
		more buried in this cemetery.  It is the oldest comm-
		unity cemetery in Alexander Co., begun in 1800.  The
		first tomb with an epitaph is James Watts', as follows:
		"Farewell my dear and loving wife, my children and my
		friends, I hope in Heaven to see you all when all things
		have their end.


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