You might want to try contacting the secretary of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. That University, like several others, does a memorial page or two when a former faculty member dies. Colleagues write the pages. Some ae more informative than others. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: "From Carol" <decker@tiptontel.com> To: <WIDANE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:09 AM Subject: [WIDANE] OBIT - OLIVER PATTERSON WATTS > Oliver Patterson Watts was a professor at the university in Madison, WI. > He > was married to a lady named Mary, no children. They were in the 1930 > census, but according to Family Search he married again in 1948, Stella > Elizabeth Nuzum. So Mary must have died sometime between 1930 and 1948. > Mr. Watts was born July 16, 1865, I believe in Maine, and died Feb. 6, > 1953, > I assume in Wisconsin, and is buried in Columbus, Ohio. A friend in Ohio > is > trying to put together burial records and obits for a very large cemetery > in > Columbus to be able to assist other genealogists. There was nothing in > the > Columbus, Ohio paper, but there was a blurp in the New York Times. > He was very famous. > > I believe if you live within a certain district of Wisconsin, you can get > obits free > from the Madison Library. Could someone please ask for the obit for > Mary Watts and for Oliver Patterson Watts? > > Thank you, > Carol Decker > Tipton, IN > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIDANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message