********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by William Henry Perrin published in 1891; page 307. S. P. WATTS Abbeville, LA S. P. Watts, editor and proprietor of the Vermilion Star, of Abbeville, w,as born in Georgia, December 29, 1854. He is the son of S. B. and Anna (Pendleton) Watts, who vilely also natives ot Georgia. They became the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters. S. B. Watts was a merchant and planter at Palmetto, Geoigia. He died in 1846 and his wife in 1857, being, at the time of their death residents of Georgia. The subject of this sketch began life for himself at the age of eighteen as farm hand. After working for a year he engaged, in 1880, as a clerk in a drug store at Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1881 he was a student in the law department of the Tulane University, of New Orleans, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He began the practice of his profession the same year in Shreveport, being thus engaged until April, 1890, when he removed to Abbeville to take charge of his present business. Mr. Watts obtained some knowledge of the newspaper business by doing editorial work on the Louisiana Advance, published in Acadia parish in 1880. Becoming interested in newspaper work he moved to Abbeville and took charge of the Vermilion Star, to which he now gives almost his entire attention. He is also agent for a loan and insurance company. Mr. Watts was married in De Soto parish, Louisiana, in 1884, to Miss Adele Williams. She died, January, 1886, in Shreveport. Mr. Watts next married, October, 1887, Mrs. Jodie Moraland, widow of L. E. Moraland. They are the parents of two children, a son, Lovice A., and a daughter, Anna May. Mr. Watts is a member of the Knights of Honor, being dictator of Acadia Lodge 3240. He is an ardent supporter of democracy, to the interest of which his newspaper is devoted.