Watts Hays Letters now online
The letters of the Watts and Hays families of Missouri and California, 1849-1865 are now online at www.wattshaysletters.com. John S. Watts (1787-1860), who wrote the first letter in the collection, married Mary Schooling (1791 - 1835). After Mary's death, John S. Watts married Elizabeth Berry Yocum and migrated with his surviving children to Van Buren (Cass) Co., MO. The second letter is by Joseph Schooling of Lawrence Co., MO, a cousin of Mary Schooling's.