MURRAY COUNTY, GA - BIOS Van L. Watts

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 606
Published by The Southern Historical Association in
1895


MURRAY COUNTY


Van L. Watts, a rising member of the Murray county bar,
residing at Spring Place, was born at Fairmount, in
Gordon county, Ga., in 1871.  In 1881 he moved to
Cherokee county with his parents, where he grew to
manhood.  He was educated in the schools of Cherokee
county.  He early resolved to prepare himself for the
practice of law, and engaged in the study of that
science in Cherokee county, where on Sept. 28, 1892, he
was regularly admitted to the bar in the superior court
of Pickens county, at Jasper.  In May, 1893, he settled
at Spring Place, where he has since practiced his
profession, and is winning a reputation as commendable
as it is merited for skill and dexterity in the trial
of cases, and for prudence and diligence in the
management of the legal business.  In June, 1894, Mr.
Watts married Miss Minnie Daly, of Spring Place,
daughter of Simon Daly, and they have one son, Roy F.,
born May 14, 1895.  The father of Mr. Watts was
Sylvester R. Watts, born in Gordon county, this state,
who married Miss Celia E. Stanton, daughter of Hon.
J.W. Stanton, of Gordon county.  The issue of this
marriage was seven children: Henry L., of Cherokee
county; Emma L., engaged in teaching at Ducktown,
Tenn.; John Q., a student at Young Harris college,
Union county, Ga; Stanton P., of Fairmont, Ga.; Martin
F., of Cherokee county; Sylvester R., Jr., also of that
county, and Van L.  He enlisted in the Sixth Georgia
cavalry the last year of the war, when but seventeen
years old, and defended the cause of the south.  He
died in Cherokee county in 1883.  The paternal
grandfather of Van L. Watts was Pleasant Watts, a
native of South Carolina, who died in Gordon county in
1856.