Individual Details
Seneca H. Watts
(February 14, 1812 - August 2, 1897)
1860 Lincoln County, Missouri census, Hurricane Township, New Hope Post Office, Dwelling/Family #1124/1018, taken July 1860, page 146: Seneca WATTS, 49, m, Farmer, $6000, 1835, Tenn; Nancy WATTS, 46, f, Va; Nancy F. WATTS, 16, f, Mo; Mandaville WATTS, 8, f, Mo; Martin T. WATTS, 13, m, Mo; Wesley WATTS, 4, m, Mo; Martha WATTS, 3, f, Mo; John CRUTCHLEY, 22, m, F. H. Hired, England.
1870 Lincoln County, Missouri census.
"Seneca Watts. Died August 2, 1897. Aged 85 ys, 5 ms, 19 da." (Tombstone of Seneca Watts at Hamilton Cemetery (also known as Watts Cemetery in the Lincoln County Cemetery books), as reported by William L. Douglas Jr. and Merle M. Jackson, 1981 in Lincoln County, Missouri Books.)
"Seneca Watts enjoyed the respect and affection of all who knew him, and was a man of wide influence. He was a favorite with his father-in-law, Martin Kemper, who made him executor of his will, and when another son-in-law, Raleigh Mayes, unwittingly displeased the old gentleman by selling a slave woman given his wife Emily by her father, he made Seneca trustee for the share of Emily in his estate. This estate amounted to a little over one hundred dollars for each child of Emily was paid each of the children in gold by Uncle Seneca on the day of their marriage. He lived to an advanced age, a fine type of the old Virginia gentleman. He and his wife are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery, on his old farm, now known as the Taylor Place." (THE KEMPER BOOK, 1957 by Clarence Cannon, page 20.)
1870 Lincoln County, Missouri census.
"Seneca Watts. Died August 2, 1897. Aged 85 ys, 5 ms, 19 da." (Tombstone of Seneca Watts at Hamilton Cemetery (also known as Watts Cemetery in the Lincoln County Cemetery books), as reported by William L. Douglas Jr. and Merle M. Jackson, 1981 in Lincoln County, Missouri Books.)
"Seneca Watts enjoyed the respect and affection of all who knew him, and was a man of wide influence. He was a favorite with his father-in-law, Martin Kemper, who made him executor of his will, and when another son-in-law, Raleigh Mayes, unwittingly displeased the old gentleman by selling a slave woman given his wife Emily by her father, he made Seneca trustee for the share of Emily in his estate. This estate amounted to a little over one hundred dollars for each child of Emily was paid each of the children in gold by Uncle Seneca on the day of their marriage. He lived to an advanced age, a fine type of the old Virginia gentleman. He and his wife are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery, on his old farm, now known as the Taylor Place." (THE KEMPER BOOK, 1957 by Clarence Cannon, page 20.)
Events
| Birth | February 14, 1812 | Hartsville, Smith County, Tennessee | |||
| Marriage | November 16, 1833 | Frances Buchanan | |||
| Marriage | December 3, 1835 | Lincoln County, Missouri - Nancy "Frances" Kemper | |||
| Death | August 2, 1897 | Lincoln County, Missouri | |||
| Burial | Seneca Watts Cemetery, south of New Hope, Lincoln County, Missouri |
Families
| Spouse | Frances Buchanan (1817 - 1834) |
| Child | William Thomas Watts (1834 - 1857) |
| Spouse | Nancy "Frances" Kemper (1814 - 1903) |
| Child | John Wiseman Watts (1838 - ) |
| Child | Matilda Katherine Watts (1839 - 1898) |
| Child | Mary Jane Watts (1841 - 1922) |
| Child | Nancy Frances "Fannie" Watts (1844 - 1909) |
| Child | Martin Taylor Watts (1847 - ) |
| Child | Emily Mildred Watts (1849 - ) |
| Child | Amanda Watts (1852 - ) |
| Child | Wesley French Watts (1855 - ) |
| Child | Martha Ann Watts (1857 - ) |
| Father | William Thomas Watts (1783 - 1851) |
| Mother | Nancy Wommack (1784 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Eliza Ann Watts (1801 - 1879) |
| Sibling | Wesley C. Watts (1804 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Gabrilla A. Watts (1814 - ) |
| Sibling | Arzilla Watts (1816 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Mary A. Watts (1818 - ) |
| Sibling | Virdilla Watts (1820 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Mordica Richard Watts (1823 - 1885) |
| Sibling | Cancyra "Cy" "Cyrus" Watts (1826 - ) |
| Sibling | Mirdella Watts (1829 - 1864) |