Lillian Hulette WATTS

F, b. 3 October 1883, d. 19 June 1952
Relationship
Grandaunt of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
Lillie Watts
     Lillian Hulette WATTS, daughter of George Weaver WATTS and Adelia Reed, was born on 3 October 1883 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.1 Lillian Hulette WATTS also went by the name of Lillie. She became sick with a high fever at an early age and almost died. The fever caused brain damage.

Lillie WATTS appeared on a census, enumerated 11 June 1900, in the household of her parents George Weaver WATTS and Adelia Reed in Precinct 2, Scottsville, Bibb County, Alabama. She was listed as age 15.2

Lillie WATTS appeared on a census, enumerated 15 April 1930, in the household of her parents George Weaver WATTS and Adelia Reed in Beat 2, Bibb County, Alabama. She was 45 years old and could read and write.3

Lillian Hulette WATTS died on 19 June 1952 in Scottsville, Bibb County, Alabama, at age 68.4 She was buried in Scottsville Cemetery.

Her obituary appeared 28 June 1952 in the The Centreville Press, published in Centreville, Alabama. Miss Lillie Hullett Watts Dies in Tuscaloosa -- Miss Lillie Hullett Watts, age 68, died Thursday afternoon, June 19th at the home of a sister, Mrs. J. C. Skinner in Tuscaloosa where she has made her home for several years.

Miss Watts is the daughter of the late George and Adelia Watts of Scottsville.

Surviving her are two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Skinner, Tuscaloosa; Mrs. I. L. Burt, West Blocton; two brothers, Charlie Watts, Centreville, and Talmadge Watts, West Blocton. She also leaves a host of Nieces and Nephews.

Funeral services were held at West Scottsville Methodist Church with the Rev. Stewart of West Blocton officiating.

Pallbearers were: Otis Watts, Marvin Watts, A. J. Watts, Van Watts, Varner Burt, Vincent Burt, all nephews of the deceased. Collins Funeral Home of West Blocton in charge.
Last Edited=4 Jan 2020

Citations

  1. [S6] George W. Watts Family Bible records copied by Randall Watts.
  2. [S132] 1900 U. S. Census, Bibb County, Alabama, George Watts household #101, ED 2, sheet 5, pg. 38-A.
  3. [S475] 1930 U. S. Census, Bibb County, Alabama, George Watts household No. 35, ED 4-3, sheet 31, pg. 26.
  4. [S5] Howard F. McCord, Cemeteries of Bibb County, Alabama 1817-1974.

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