My grandmother is Eva June Watt Clauser. She was the daughter of Curtis Watt, son of Hugh Watt, as shown below in my generation report. As you can see, they lived in DeKalb County, Indiana, which is the county just north of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I believe they came from Pennsylvania through Stark County, Ohio. Both DeKalb County, IN, and Stark County, OH, have genealogy sites: http://www.rootsweb.com/~indekalb/index.html and http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohstark/index.htm. Both are very good sites. Hope we can make some kind of connection. Sandy Clauser Culp - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------- Descendants of Hugh Watt Generation No. 1 1. HUGH1 WATT1,2 was born Abt. 1835, and died January 21, 1917 in DeKalb County, IN. He married RACHEL ANN PENNY3,4 March 10, 1859 in DeKalb County, IN, daughter of JOSEPH PENNY and ELENOR. Notes for HUGH WATT: Seen your query on the web page. Found a Theodore Kline who married Sarah E. Gill July 4, 1875 DeKalb county, Indiana (Re: courthouse rec. Bk 4) Hugh Watt died January 2, 1917 (Re:courthouse rec. H8-42) Also found an obit for Curtis Watt, parents are Hugh and Rachel Ann (Penny) Watt they were married March 10, 1859 DeKalb county, Indiana.(Re: courthouse rec. Bk 2) Curtis married Rissie/Rossie V. Kline Oct. 10, 1895 at Concord, DeKalb county, Indiana (Re: courthouse rec. Bk 15 page 18) Curtis was born Dec.7, 1871 at Garrett, DeKalb county, died 1958 buried Riverside Cem (Re: Cemetery Inscription) surviving are a daughter and a son. Mrs. Warren (Eva) Clauser of St. Joe, Indiana, and Carl E. of Montgomery, Michigan; and a brother Ira Watt of Brandon, Florida. Rossie/rissie V. Kline born 1878 died 1960 buried in Reiverside Cemetery, St. Joe, Indiana. Arlene Children of HUGH WATT and RACHEL PENNY are: i. IRA2 WATT. More About IRA WATT: Occupation: Abt. 1898, Built creameries around Brainerd, Minnesota 2. ii. MILLICENT ANN WATT, b. 1865. 3. iii. CURTIS MONROE WATT, b. December 07, 1871, Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana; d. 1958, St. Joe, Indiana. Generation No. 2 2. MILLICENT ANN2 WATT (HUGH1) was born 1865. She married IRA BRANDON December 23, 1886 in DeKalb County, IN, son of ISAAC BRANDON. Notes for IRA BRANDON: Ira Brandon, was a carpenter, who helped build several buildings in Auburn. One of them was the downtown Lutheran Church. In the late 1890's, he took his wife and four children, Larry, Ruth, Charles Merrit, and Hugh, to Brainard, Minnesota. There he worked with his brother-in-law, Ira Watt, building creameries. His son, Worden Brandon, was born while they were in Minnesota. During this time, the news of the Alaskan Gold Rush began to stir the interest of Ira, so that he took his son, Charles Merrit, on an exploratory trip to the Klondike region of Alaska. He was completely taken with the excitement of finding gold. He returned to Minnesota to leave his five children there, and took his wife along as cook to go back to the Klondike to pan for gold. They were gone approximately a year. they did not find enough gold to pay their expenses. They did find a large garnet which was later made into a necklace for their eldest son's wife, Mildred, who married Larry, as a wedding present. After returning from Alaska, the family moved back to Auburn to their cement block home which Ira's father, Isaac, had built for them. Ira and his wife, Millicent Ann Watt, spent their life moving between the Auburn area and Brainard, Minnesota. It is said that they moved back and forth seventeen to eighteen times, traveling by train. Their son, Hugh, and daughter, Ruth, both married, lived in Minnesota. Hugh and his wife, Ethel, did not have any children. Ruth married Joseph Mraz and had four children: Betty, Barbara, Joe, and Josephine. Hugh was an insurance salesman. Charles Merrit and his wife, Naomi, did not have any children. He was a Protestant Chaplain in the Army and retired in California, where he ministered in the Episcopalian Church. Worden, born 12 August 1899, married Ruth Price, of Waterloo, 6 August 1921. He was an accountant at the Auburn Automobile Company for a number of years and then worked at the Citizens Lumber Company, doing carpentry work. they had three children: Kathleen, deceased; Richard, of Syracuse; and Janice Quainlan, of Lima, Ohio. Worden died 19 September 1975. Taken from Dekalb County 1837-1987, Vol. 2, pg. 562-63 More About IRA BRANDON: Occupation: Carpenter Residence: Auburn, IN and Brainard, MN5 Children of MILLICENT WATT and IRA BRANDON are: i. CHARLES MERIT3 BRANDON6, m. NAOMI. More About CHARLES MERIT BRANDON: Occupation: Protestant Chaplain in the Army Retirement: California 4. ii. LARRY BRANDON. 5. iii. RUTH BRANDON. iv. HUGH BRANDON, m. ETHEL. More About HUGH BRANDON: Occupation: Insurance Salesman7 Residence: Minnesota8 6. v. WORDEN BRANDON, b. August 12, 1899, Minnesota; d. September 19, 1975, Auburn, IN. 3. CURTIS MONROE2 WATT (HUGH1)9 was born December 07, 1871 in Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana, and died 1958 in St. Joe, Indiana. He married ROSEMOND VIOLET KLINE10 October 10, 1895 in Concord, DeKalb County, IN, daughter of THEODORE KLINE and SARAH GILL. More About CURTIS MONROE WATT: Burial: Riverside Cemetery, St. Joe, Indiana Children of CURTIS WATT and ROSEMOND KLINE are: i. CARL3 WATT. 7. ii. EVA JUNE WATT, b. June 22, 1901, LaGrange, Indiana.