Susie Watts Almond Notebooks, Watts Family Research 

Materials provided by Andrea Watts Harrison, who received them from Susie. 

November 2018

Notebook 1 – 102 pages

Family Story of Robert Deady Watts by Dorothy Elizabeth Watts, 1923; Picture Fernside Farm, 1902-1903, Prunedale, California, 49 pages

In Memory of Father Marion Watts O.F.M., 2 pages

Letter from Bertita to Poly, 1975, picture of Sister Clara, 1 page

Wall Street Journal – Frank M. Watts Jr. of Watts Western Inc., Fullerton, California, picture, 1 page

Letter to Mrs. Lamberson, cousin of Bertita, 3 pages

Letter to Susie and Douglas from Betty, 1976, 5 pages, includes pictures of F. M. and Guadalupe Watts; school Douglas, Arizona, 1911; Guadalupe and her sister a Nun.

Letter from Aunt Annie Maylord of Bingley, Yorks, England, 1941, 1 page

Outline for Ruiz and Watts Legend, 6 pages.

Old Time Stories of the Watts and Stark Families, by Fannie Clifford Brown daughter of Margaret Stark and J. W. Brown, 8 pages

Hills Ferry, sons of Henry Watts, 1 page

Letter from Ida to Susie, 1 page

J. G. Watts interview with Fred Lockley, 29 September 1934, 1 page

Picture of J. G. and Rose Watts and Pearl Becker, 1 page

Picture of Watts House in Scappoose, 1974, 1 page

Watts History in Columbia County History Annuals, 1 page, list of 1961 to 1975

1860 Census Form Lamberson, 1 page

1870 Census Form Lamberson and Watts, 2 pages

1870 Census information request letter, 1 page

History of Watts Family given by Martha Stark Draper, 1938, 1 page

Notes from Family Bible of William and Mary Ann Watts, 3 pages

Notes of family of Victor William Watts, 1 page

Note on Vol. 1-6, 12 Scappoose, 1 page

Watts Stories Continued, 1 page

First Watts House on DLC Scappoose, Oregon, 1 page

Tillamook Scholarship Watts Family, 1 page

Thank you to people who helped in work 1 page

Arizona’ Dark and Bloody Ground, 1 page

Map of Arizona

Notebook 2 – 154 pages

Family Records, marriage license and certificate of Robert D. Watts and Minnie Ibbitson, 2 pages

Pedigree chart and notes of Robert Deady Watts, 12 pages

Visit to Scappoose, J. L. Watts and Mrs. Becker, 1 page

Charts compared, Tessie E. Watts and Victor Lewis Roberts, 14 pages

Cornelius Watts, England, English Research, 19 pages

Watts/Butterworth History, 9 pages

William Watts and Maryann Spencer Watts of Columbia County, Beaverton, Oregon 20 pages

Pike County, Missouri, 8 pages

Orange County, Kentucky Historical Society, 16 pages

Daniel Boone – the Master of the Wilderness by John Bakeless, 1 page

Watts Family Pedigree Record and Family Group Sheets, 9 pages

William Watts, 3 pages

Francis Harrison Taylor Watts, Family Group Sheets, 14 pages

F.M.W. baptismal record, 1923, 1 page

Letter F. H. Watts 1909, 2 pages

Death Certificates for F. H. Watts and Elizabeth, 2 pages

Marriage Certificate of Sarah and Timothy Lamberson, 1 page

Marriage License of Benjamin Douglas Almond Susie Lolita Watts 1932, 1 page

Marriage Certificate of Daniel Hagan and Mary E. Watts, 1 page

Family Group Record of Daniel Hagan and Mary E. Watts, 1 page

Kentucky State Historical Society, Land Records, 5 pages

John Watts sailmaker of Bristol, England, 1 page

John Watts formerly fishmonger of London, 1 page

John Watts by Martha Stark Draper, 6 pages

The Brazen Overlanders of 1845 by Donna M. Wojick

Notebook 3 – 107 pages

Watts Encyclopedia, Van Watts Newsletter, 2 pages

Kansas City, Missouri, 6 pages

Places, 28 pages

Watts Lights the Way, 1 page

What’s Up Watts!, Part 1, 11 pages

What’s Up Watts!, Part 2, 13 pages

Picture of William Watts, 1 page

Picture of Scappoose Log Cabin, 1 page

Watts Castle, 14 pages

The Watts House by Van Watts, 1 page

St. Helens Chronicle, Watts Family History by Roy A. Perry, Away Back When – Before 1910, 1968, 10 pages

The Chronicle – by Pearl Becker, Out of the Past, 1 page

The Oregonian – The Pioneer Trails Association by Phillip H. Parrish, Ezra Meeker, 1943, 2 pages

Columbia Historical Society – Letter from Pearl Becker to Van Watts, 1974, and Pioneers of Columbia County, Oregon, 4 pages, page of J. G. Watts and Rose; page of William J. Fullerton

The Book of the American West by Jay Monaghan, Forrest Collection, Arizona Pioneer’s Historical Society; Feud between Tewksburys and Grahams, picture of Mrs. Thomas H. Graham, 1 page

Van Watts copy of the same information, 6 pages

Mexico’s Own Casey J

Notebook 4 – 57 pages

Historical and Biographical Record of Monterey and San Francisco Counties, California, by J. M. Guinn, A.M., 1910, Watts and Shotwell Family, 10 pages

Map Monterey, California, 1 page

DAR #490157, 1962, John Watt, 1976, not our family Susie Watts Almond, 13 pages

DAR #160397, William Watts (Larager), 1937, 1979, 9 pages

DAR # 513932, John Watts, 1966, 1979, 20 pages

Draper DAR note, 1 page

Notebook 5 – 83 pages

Van Watts

Benjamin M. Watts, Buena Park, California, 22 pages, includes death certificate and funeral card.

Poem a Daughter’s Tears found in Trail Log, 1 page

The Wattes and America’s Great Daniel Boone, The Boone Legend, 2 pages

America’s Bicentennial Gets Rolling – In a Covered Wagon, Ben Watts, Burbank, California, by Van Watts, 1 page

Buena Park News, Ben Watts, 1974, 2 pages, plus 1 page of pictures of Ben Watts and Helen, Ben Watts and cousin Susie Watts Almond.

Church Award for Susie Watts Almond, 1 page

Horse Story, Susie Watts Almond, 1 page

Diary of John W. Watts and Benjamin Watts, 5 pages

California County Map, 1 page

Foghorn Watts, 9 pages

The Oregon Republican, 3 pages

League Trip from Nicaragua, 2 pages

The Californians, Love, War and Border Empire, 1985, 13 pages

Mudo: Slave of Geronimo by Ben Watts, 7 pages, picture 1920

Notebook 6 – 93 pages

Cradled in Thunder by Charles Ludwig, Dr. Isaac Watts, 1976, 4 pages

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol XIII, No. 1, July 1906, Cornelius Watts, Virginia Gleanings in England, page 307, 3 pages

Mormon Church Computer Files Index Watts, 2 pages

C. B. Heinemann, pages 47 and 54, Edward Watts, 2 pages

Marriages of Culpepper County, Virginia, 1781-1915, 2 pages

Virginia Taxpayers 1782-87, Jacoby and Watts lists, 5 pages

Watts Encyclopedia London, England, 1979, 1 page

Pictures of St. Martins Church, London, England, 2 pages

Some Facts from Salinas Library, Kentucky Court and Other Records, Ardery, 1958, London notes, 2 pages

DAR records misc., 4 pages

Marriages of Pike County, Missouri, from Sutro Library, 1 page

Will of Elizabeth Jacoby Watts, Book C, page 438, 2 pages

Will of John Watts, Book B, page 255, 1839, 1 page

Obituary of John W. Watts, 1 January 1937, 2 pages

Will of Francis Watts, 1845, witness W.W.W. Watts, 1 page

Heraldry of the Watts Surname, 21 pages

Watts Families Descended from Early Immigrants Who Settled in the Tidewater Counties of Virginia by Charles Bank Hannaman, 1940, 8 pages

Watts Family First Virginia Settlers, 22 pages

Information about John Watts son of Robert Watts, 1 page

Heirs of Robert Watts of Kentucky, 1 page

Court Records of Kentucky, Watts, Jacoby, Stark, 1 page

Facts from History of Pike County, Missouri, C. B. Heinemann, 1 page

State Map of Virginia, 1 page

State Map of Missouri, 1 page

Notebook 7 – 120

Francis Harrison Tyler Watts Family, 10 pages

An Outline of Events in the Life of F. H. Watts, 1 page

Picture of house on fire, Watts?, 1 page

To Daddy, poem by Bertita Watts, 1 page

Note of Sister Clara to Susie and Douglas, 1978, 1 page

Obituaries of Mrs. Frank M. Watts, Guadalupe Ruiz Watts, Gabriel Eduardo Ruiz, Ramon de La Guerra, Family of Forencia Ruiz and Eufenia Garcia Telles de Ruiz, 1 page

Obituaries of Joseph Thompson O.F.M., Mrs. Anita Thompson, 1 page

Frank H. Watts Story, 2 pages

Padre Jose de la Guerra Thompson, Hasta La Vista, 3 pages

Francis Marion Watts and wife Guadalupe Ruiz family book, with pictures, 12 pages

Journal of Frank Marion Watts travel and more family book, 20 pages

Lamberson Family, 2 pages

Old Time Stories of the Watts and Stark Families, 2 pages

Stark Family History by Martha Stark Draper and more stories, 30 pages

Wheeler Land Co. S. A. letter, 2 pages

More album with pictures, 8n pages

Letter to William Ibbetson from Monterey Abstract Company, 3 pages

Letters to Susie and Doug from Verne and Lupita Olsen and other people, 23 pages

Map of Arizona from book by Earle R. Forrest

County map of Arizona