This entry is from the J.J. Watts collection. John J. Watts hailed from Warren, Maine and moved to the northern Ozarks of Missouri sometime after the Civil War. He was a circuit-riding Baptist Minister and his territory covered Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties and parts of Maries and Dent Counties. He established a cemetery, Watt’s Lawn, which is located 1 mile West of J Highway, near the Pulaski County-Phelps County line. This collection covers 1878-1912.
Eva Zylpha Delilah Keeney, daughter of Abner Martin & Frances E. Keeney, died at the old Ham Lawson farm on Spring Creek, between Relfe & Pillman's, May 13th 1909 at 1 o'clock a.m., aged 1 yr., 7 ms., & 25 ds. Of a family of 7 children, 6 surviving, with father & mother. Her death was caused by sucking a piece of bread down her wind pipe, buried at Watts Lawn Cemetery, May 14th 1909 at 12 noon after a sermon by J.J. Watts from Psalms 34X19, Hymns 90=145=8 & 34 1/2.
18 November, 1907 - 13 May, 1909
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