Posted on: Bullock County, Al Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Bullock?read=282 Surname: RAIFORD, WATTS ------------------------- >From the 1860 Pike Co., AL census: p. 106, #715 (Farriorville) Phillip RAIFORD 39 GA Hester E. 35 SC Robert S? 04 AL John F. 03 AL By 19 Aug 1862, H. W. RAIFORD had been issued letters of administration in Pike Co. on the estate of Phillip RAIFORD. On 21 Sep 1865 in Pike Co., William T? WATTS married H. E. RAIFORD. In the 1870 Bullock Co., AL census: p. 88, #71 William WATTS 30 NC Hester WATTS 44 SC ($1000 real, $500 personal estate) Robert RAFORD 14 AL John RAFORD 12 AL Phillip RAFORD 09 AL The tradition in the WATTS family was that William Thomas (son of James Hamilton WATTS and Eliza DYSON of Columbus Co., NC, moved to Boswell's Crossing in present Bullock Co. ca 1849) disappeared around 1874 and was never heard from again. He does appear, however, in the 1900 Escambia Co., AL census, with wife Missouri E. (married ca 20 years). They are buried in the Ft. Crawford Cemetery, East Brewton, AL: William P? WATTS 23rd Alabama Infantry, CSA Mrs. M. E. WATTS 28 Feb 1846--7 Oct 1906 William Thomas WATTS was living in Escambia Co. as a Confederate veteran in 1907/08, but probably died by 1910 (doesn't seem to be in Soundex for that year, anyway). He had served in Co. B, 23rd AL Inf., along with his brothers John Wesley WATTS, Doctor Bateman WATTS, and Marvin Asbury WATTS (my wife's great-grandfather), all of Pike/Bullock Co. I welcome any correspondence about these WATTS and RAIFORD families. --Ron Head (Montgomery, AL)