Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

FREDERICK WATTS was born March 29, 1830, and is the third son of John and
Susan (Sageser) Watts.  John Watts was born in Madison County, Ky., was at
one time its sheriff, and died in his fifty-third year in Jessamine County.
Mrs. Susan Watts was born in Jessamine County in 1800, and is still living.
Since the death of her husband she has lived with her son, Frederick.  She
is eighty-six years old, and very feeble.  Frederick Watts is a native of
Garrard County, but moved to Jessamine County in 1836 with his parents, and
settled on Jessamine Creek, about three miles southwest of Nicholasville.
Frederick Watts was reared on a farm, and has farmed all his life.  He was
married in 1856 to Miss Nancy J., daughter of Asberry and Elizabeth
(Shorton) Knight.  This lady lived only eleven months.  Mr. Watts was next
married to Anna Waters, of Jessamine County, June 13, 1859.  She was a
daughter of Harvey and Paulina (Owens) Waters.  Two children were born to
the second marriage: Cordelia, April 14, 1861, and Jason W., January 13,
1863.  Mrs. Anna Watts died in August, 1864.  Mr. Watts' third marriage was
to Mrs. Frances (Fain) Stanley, of Jessamine County, January 18, 1865.  She
was a daughter of Larkin and Barbara (Easley) Fain.  Her father was born in
Jessamine County, and her mother in Rockcastle County, Ky.  Her father died
in October, 1876, and her mother in September, 1843.  To Mr. Watts' last
marriage have been born six children: Henry, October 24, 1866; Annie L.,
January 21, 1870; Mary B., October 10, 1873; Andrew J., October 12, 1876;
Batie, March 1, 1879, and Welburn, November 8, 1881.  Mr. Watts' third wife
has one child by her first husband, James L. Stanley, born January 24,
1862, married to Essie Lewis, and living in Illinois.  Mr. Watts ran a saw
mill in 1860 and 1861, but has farmed all his life, and is comfortably
situated on the Lexington and Danville Turnpike, five and one-quarter miles
from Nicholasville.  He and wife, and Cordelia, Annie, Mary and Andrew
belong to the Methodist Church.

Watts Sageser Shorton Knight Waters Owens Fain Stanley Easley Lewis
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Madison-KY Garrard-KY Rockcastle-KY IL

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