The Watsons

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My Watsons were once called WATTS. Do you know anything about a FORKTAIL WATTS? Supposedly he was an indian. This looks like indians to me.

I am also in Forked Tail Watts line. Does anyone know what the names are below that do not show up on this picture? I would love to have the list.

Does anyone have the names? Watson and Phillips are my grandfather's. The white man in the first row looks like my gg grandfather Phillips. I hope someone can shed some light on this picture. It's a great picture.

I have been told that my family comes from the trail of tears. My last name is Watson and it is my maidian name. Some of the names i was given by my father, that were supposed to be on trail of tears is Moses, Miller, or Buck. I can not Find buck on the trail of Tears. I have a list of Trail of Tears if anyone is intrested. Thank you. any info would be great. i have been told that some of my family is from TN. I know i am related to watson's out of California, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma *and Miller* for Oklahoma.

I am of Forked Tails Watts line as well. I would like to know the names at the bottom of the picture.

Virginia, What make you think that this picture contains some Watson ancestors. Did not the Trail of Tears take place in the 1830's? And were they not (herded) from Georgia across to Oklahoma? I have a line of Watson's from Alabama, but have not connected to any in Georgia yet. Most of mine came up from Alabama into the Arkansas and MOSTLY Missouri areas and then into the Oklahoma Territories. I never heard of any participating in the Trail of Tears. I do however have a ggggrandfather James Crowley that DID participate in the Trail of Tears. Which this picture had some Crowleys in it. But since I have no pictures from that time, I could not tell you if any of the white men are a Watson, Crowley or whoever. I would like to make a copy of your picture so that I could pass it around the families and maybe one us will find something out.
Thanks
Sheryl D. (Crowley) Stanfill

Virginia, this is Sheryl again; I forgot to give you my e-mail add. [contact link]

I am Watson family, and I am also native american. We are potawatomi indian from Michigan.

I'm looking for the family of Arthur b Watson he lived in st Louis Missouri around 1960 my name is Jeffrey party my birth name is weekley my mother's name Leona Jean Weekley Arthur b Watson is my father I have been looking for him for 30 years I would like to know if I family I don't know I am Mexican and native Indian not sure of what else

I have a Waity watts. I don't know where she's coming from.

I can't find any connection to Watsons with this photo. Google Los Pinos Indian Agency and you will find this is a group picture of Ute Indians with Chief Ignacio and John McDonough in the front row. Some history sites have a second photo of the same people arranged in a different configuration in front of the same building. They all say this was taken around 1880 from a Durango photographer. John Taylor, a buffalo soldier (and interpreter) stands in the back row. I have found different versions of the photo (one links it incorrectly to Trail of Tears in the Salem News) labeled as "The Watsons", but I cannot find how it could relate to the Watson family. I think there was a ranch nearby owned by a Watson, but nothing points to any figure in the photo having that last name. Not all figures have been identified yet. But this isn't a family photo. It's a group photo of the Los Pinos Indian Agency in Colorado.