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Johnson Funeral Home Records now Teague & Son Funeral Home Newburg, Missouri 65550 - Alphabetical listing 1921-1952. USGenWeb Missouri Phelps County Archives Phelps Burial Records |
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These are transcripts from Volume 36 of the microfilm copy of the manuscript notebooks of genealogical records kept by a circuit-riding Baptist minister in the northern Ozarks. The records cover Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, and parts of Maries and Dent counties in south-central Missouri. There is no index. Use your edit/find to find the surname of interest. John J. Watts was born in Warren, ME, where he became a member of the Warren Baptist Church in 1858. He moved to Missouri sometime after the Civil War, and married Mary Jane Woolsey of Rolla in 1872. He began preaching the gospel in 1877, and was ordained a minister at the Beaver Creek, but traveled extensively throughout Phelps, Pulaski, and Maries counties preaching at baptisms, marriages, funerals, and organizational meetings for local churches.
#1 WATTS COLLECTION - 1874-1894 This collection placed here by Barbara Pugh |
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