WATTS-- Weakley Co and Carroll Co TN
Looking for information on the family of Bolden aka Bolin, Bowlin, Bolen and Boulin Watts. He was born in Hickman Co TN 7 March 1828. He married first in 1854 in Weakley Co TN to Pamelia/Permilia Trimble. They had no children. By 1880 Bolden is a widower. He then married Margaret Gooch in 1885 in Carroll Co TN. She was much younger then he. They had at least five children. Four of them sons. Not sure about the sex of one of the children. It had died before 1900. In 1903 Bolden applies for a Confederate Pension from TN. He listed his sons as ages 15, 9, 5 and 3. On the 1900 census for Carroll Co TN I find Bolden listed with wife Margaret and sons, John B., Loid, and Buford. The three year old listed on the pension is not there by the 1900 census. I would guess born just after it was taken. I do not have a name for this son. Both Margaret and Bolden are gone by 1910. Margaret died in 1909. I don't have a death date for Bolden but would assume it was between 1903 and 1910. I find only Buford Watts, so far, on the 1910 census. He was living with a Dallas G. McWerter family listed as adopted son. I would like to put this family together and find the death date for Bolden and the name of the youngest son. Bolden applied for his pension from Dersden, Weakley Co., TN. The pension was rejected.
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Re: WATTS-- Weakley Co and Carroll Co TN
Angie Simon Gunnels 1/06/04