TRANSCRIPTION OF FLORA BOONE WATTS' OBITUARY WITH NOTATIONS
BY Geraldine Ingersoll, Find a Grave Contributor # 26504625
Kansas City Star_______Jan. 2, 1957
MRS. FLORA BOONE WATTS
SHE WAS A DESCENDANT OF DANIEL BOONE
She and Her Husband Operated the Watts Mill on Indian Creek Until 1940
Mrs. Flora Boone Watts, 81, {born August, 1875 and died Jan. 1, 1957} a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, died yesterday at the Doctors' Hospital where she had been a patient 13 days. The home was at 8241 Wornall Road.
Mrs. Watts was born on the farm estate of her father, Napoleon Boone, near Eighty-fourth and Main streets. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. {Flora's mother was Jane "Jennie" Douglas, daughter of Emily Dooley and William Douglas}
She was the widow of Edgar B. Watts, the last proprietor of Old Watts Mill on Indian Creek at One Hundred Third Street, Jackson County. He died in 1950. Mr. Watts was also a descendant of Daniel Boone. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Watts, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, married Sally Dodson, a granddaughter of Boone.
Mrs. Watts attended the Boone School, Eighty-ninth Street and Wornall Road. The property for the school having been allotted by her father from the family farm. Her acquaintance with Edgar Watts began about 1895 when she took corn and wheat to the mill to be ground.
They were married in 1923 {Dec. 31, 1924} and continued to operate the mill until Ill health forced Mr. Watts to retire in 1940. The last of the old Boone homestead was sold in 1947, and two years later the Watts mill was torn down.
Surviving Mrs. Watts are two brothers, Wallace {John Wallace} Boone of the home and Adali {Adali Grover} Boone 8333 Boone boulevard, and a nephew, Harold Young {son of her sister Rachel Boone and husband Minor Cleveland Young}, 8333 Boone boulevard.
Services will be at 3:30 o'clock Thursday at Wagner Chapel. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
NOTE: Flora Boone Watts fell on the ice and sustained multiple fractures which resulted in her death two weeks later.
See
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vlwest/NewSantaFe/watts.htm
BY Geraldine Ingersoll, Find a Grave Contributor # 26504625
Kansas City Star_______Jan. 2, 1957
MRS. FLORA BOONE WATTS
SHE WAS A DESCENDANT OF DANIEL BOONE
She and Her Husband Operated the Watts Mill on Indian Creek Until 1940
Mrs. Flora Boone Watts, 81, {born August, 1875 and died Jan. 1, 1957} a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, died yesterday at the Doctors' Hospital where she had been a patient 13 days. The home was at 8241 Wornall Road.
Mrs. Watts was born on the farm estate of her father, Napoleon Boone, near Eighty-fourth and Main streets. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. {Flora's mother was Jane "Jennie" Douglas, daughter of Emily Dooley and William Douglas}
She was the widow of Edgar B. Watts, the last proprietor of Old Watts Mill on Indian Creek at One Hundred Third Street, Jackson County. He died in 1950. Mr. Watts was also a descendant of Daniel Boone. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Watts, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, married Sally Dodson, a granddaughter of Boone.
Mrs. Watts attended the Boone School, Eighty-ninth Street and Wornall Road. The property for the school having been allotted by her father from the family farm. Her acquaintance with Edgar Watts began about 1895 when she took corn and wheat to the mill to be ground.
They were married in 1923 {Dec. 31, 1924} and continued to operate the mill until Ill health forced Mr. Watts to retire in 1940. The last of the old Boone homestead was sold in 1947, and two years later the Watts mill was torn down.
Surviving Mrs. Watts are two brothers, Wallace {John Wallace} Boone of the home and Adali {Adali Grover} Boone 8333 Boone boulevard, and a nephew, Harold Young {son of her sister Rachel Boone and husband Minor Cleveland Young}, 8333 Boone boulevard.
Services will be at 3:30 o'clock Thursday at Wagner Chapel. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
NOTE: Flora Boone Watts fell on the ice and sustained multiple fractures which resulted in her death two weeks later.
See
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vlwest/NewSantaFe/watts.htm
TRANSCRIPTION OF FLORA BOONE WATTS' OBITUARY WITH NOTATIONS
BY Geraldine Ingersoll, Find a Grave Contributor # 26504625
Kansas City Star_______Jan. 2, 1957
MRS. FLORA BOONE WATTS
SHE WAS A DESCENDANT OF DANIEL BOONE
She and Her Husband Operated the Watts Mill on Indian Creek Until 1940
Mrs. Flora Boone Watts, 81, {born August, 1875 and died Jan. 1, 1957} a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, died yesterday at the Doctors' Hospital where she had been a patient 13 days. The home was at 8241 Wornall Road.
Mrs. Watts was born on the farm estate of her father, Napoleon Boone, near Eighty-fourth and Main streets. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. {Flora's mother was Jane "Jennie" Douglas, daughter of Emily Dooley and William Douglas}
She was the widow of Edgar B. Watts, the last proprietor of Old Watts Mill on Indian Creek at One Hundred Third Street, Jackson County. He died in 1950. Mr. Watts was also a descendant of Daniel Boone. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Watts, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, married Sally Dodson, a granddaughter of Boone.
Mrs. Watts attended the Boone School, Eighty-ninth Street and Wornall Road. The property for the school having been allotted by her father from the family farm. Her acquaintance with Edgar Watts began about 1895 when she took corn and wheat to the mill to be ground.
They were married in 1923 {Dec. 31, 1924} and continued to operate the mill until Ill health forced Mr. Watts to retire in 1940. The last of the old Boone homestead was sold in 1947, and two years later the Watts mill was torn down.
Surviving Mrs. Watts are two brothers, Wallace {John Wallace} Boone of the home and Adali {Adali Grover} Boone 8333 Boone boulevard, and a nephew, Harold Young {son of her sister Rachel Boone and husband Minor Cleveland Young}, 8333 Boone boulevard.
Services will be at 3:30 o'clock Thursday at Wagner Chapel. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
NOTE: Flora Boone Watts fell on the ice and sustained multiple fractures which resulted in her death two weeks later.
See
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vlwest/NewSantaFe/watts.htm
BY Geraldine Ingersoll, Find a Grave Contributor # 26504625
Kansas City Star_______Jan. 2, 1957
MRS. FLORA BOONE WATTS
SHE WAS A DESCENDANT OF DANIEL BOONE
She and Her Husband Operated the Watts Mill on Indian Creek Until 1940
Mrs. Flora Boone Watts, 81, {born August, 1875 and died Jan. 1, 1957} a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, died yesterday at the Doctors' Hospital where she had been a patient 13 days. The home was at 8241 Wornall Road.
Mrs. Watts was born on the farm estate of her father, Napoleon Boone, near Eighty-fourth and Main streets. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. {Flora's mother was Jane "Jennie" Douglas, daughter of Emily Dooley and William Douglas}
She was the widow of Edgar B. Watts, the last proprietor of Old Watts Mill on Indian Creek at One Hundred Third Street, Jackson County. He died in 1950. Mr. Watts was also a descendant of Daniel Boone. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Watts, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, married Sally Dodson, a granddaughter of Boone.
Mrs. Watts attended the Boone School, Eighty-ninth Street and Wornall Road. The property for the school having been allotted by her father from the family farm. Her acquaintance with Edgar Watts began about 1895 when she took corn and wheat to the mill to be ground.
They were married in 1923 {Dec. 31, 1924} and continued to operate the mill until Ill health forced Mr. Watts to retire in 1940. The last of the old Boone homestead was sold in 1947, and two years later the Watts mill was torn down.
Surviving Mrs. Watts are two brothers, Wallace {John Wallace} Boone of the home and Adali {Adali Grover} Boone 8333 Boone boulevard, and a nephew, Harold Young {son of her sister Rachel Boone and husband Minor Cleveland Young}, 8333 Boone boulevard.
Services will be at 3:30 o'clock Thursday at Wagner Chapel. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
NOTE: Flora Boone Watts fell on the ice and sustained multiple fractures which resulted in her death two weeks later.
See
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vlwest/NewSantaFe/watts.htm
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