Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . s didmany an original Unionman the lawyer changedChitty for Hardee, raised the17th Alabama Infantry andbecame its colonel. Whilecommanding it at Corinth,Mr, Davis chose ColonelWatts to succeed Mr. Ben-jamin as law chief of thepermanent cabinet. He pre-ferred the field to the office,but he accepted the dutyoffered. In the following year, against his earnest protest, hewas chosen governor of Alabama and held the office from1863 to 1865—the most trying epoch of the war. Post-helium, Governor Watts returned to law practice; but,largely through assisting frien
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . s didmany an original Unionman the lawyer changedChitty for Hardee, raised the17th Alabama Infantry andbecame its colonel. Whilecommanding it at Corinth,Mr, Davis chose ColonelWatts to succeed Mr. Ben-jamin as law chief of thepermanent cabinet. He pre-ferred the field to the office,but he accepted the dutyoffered. In the following year, against his earnest protest, hewas chosen governor of Alabama and held the office from1863 to 1865—the most trying epoch of the war. Post-helium, Governor Watts returned to law practice; but,largely through assisting friends, soon found himself in debtfor over $100,000. Of white integrity and indomitable cour-age he bent every energy and every mastery of his professionto lifting the load; paying the debt in full before he died in Watts was twice married: first, in 1842, to MissEliza B. Allen, who died in 1873, leaving six children. Thesecond marriage was to the widow of J. F. Jackson, after twoyears of widowerhood; and she died in 1887,. GOV. THOMAS n. WATTS BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF TEE SIXTIES 95 The six children of Thos. Hill Watts and Eliza B. Allenwere: Florence S., Kate P., John W., Thomas H.,Jr., Ahceand Minnie G. Watts. The first married Col. Daniel S. Troy and left this family offive: Thos. W. Troy, married at Macon, Ga., and now residentin Honduras, C. A.; Florence Troy married Charles E. Hails,residing at Montgomery; Mary Troy, unmarried and residingat Philadelphia; Daniel W. Troy married Janie B. Watts andresides at Montgomery. Robert E. Troy married a Cubanlady named Trigi and lives at Honduras, C. A. Kate P. Watts, the second daughter of the governor, mar-ried Robert M. Collins and left a family of six children:Robert M. Collins, a bachelor, of Montgomery; Lida B. Col-lins, living unmarried at Washington City; William H. Collins,of Montgomery, unmarried; James Collins, single, of Wash-ington, D. C; Florence Collins married Albert J. Pickett,and residing at Montgom
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