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 1882-1912.
John H.L. Sullivan, born in Pulaski Co., MO, Dec 23d 1849 and died on Spring Creek near Relfe, Phelps Co., MO, Aug 24th 1884, aged 35 ys. and 8 ms. A funeral sermon was preached at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church from Psalms 130 X 6 verse by J.J. Watts, Dec 7th 1884. Widow, and 6 children survive him, and 3 bro's and 6 sisters, and his mother.