A Dilemma to be Solved: Who was the Sallie Watts who died in Halifax Co, VA in 1865?
When I was a baby family historian, I ended up researching every Watts in the county of Halifax, Virginia to determine my direct line and found out that all the Wattses there were related and descended from one progenitor. Then I could never get out of Halifax County as the origins of the one progenitor has proven elusive ever since. After nearly 35 years of researching my family history, I don't often find any new data on these family lines, but I guess I'm always curious and hopeful. The Watts family has been one that I'm always looking for more. So there I was the other day, on Familysearch.org looking for a Watts in Halifax County, Virginia. I don't even know how I happened to stumble onto this record or what I was looking for in the first place. I do know that October is the month when I always think of my grandfather as he took his first and last breath in that month with 96 years in between those two moments. These are his ancestors, too, so perhaps he was n...