When William Octavius Watts was born on 30 August 1859, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States, his father, George Marshall Watts, was 43 and his mother, Judith Ballow Shelton, was 31. He married Mary Caroline Lagow about 1893, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1900 and Dallas Texas Temple, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 26 December 1911, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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English: variant of Watt , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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