Dixon Springs Cemetery, Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee. The US Corps of Engineers relocated Watts Cemetery from the Cordell Hull Lake impoundment area in Jackson Co. to Dixon Springs Cemetery in Smith Co. Tennessee.
Matilda was born in 1824. She passed away in 1898.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDK-3VK : 23 December 2020), Matilda Watts in household of Thomas Watts, Jackson, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD7V-765 : 15 January 2022), Matilda Watts in household of Thomas Watts, Civil District 5, Jackson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65073926/matilda-watts: accessed 18 August 2022), memorial page for Matilda Clark Watts (23 Jun 1824–23 Jul 1898), Find a Grave Memorial ID 65073926, citing Dixon Springs Cemetery, Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Jimmy Huffman (contributor 47114603).
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Clarke-14048 and Clark-20620 appear to represent the same person because: Same date and place of birth -- 1834 Tennessee. Please excuse my mistake in creating a new profile for my ancestor, Matilda Clarke Watts. I got in too big of a hurry and didn't see that Matilda already has a profile.
Thank you, Deborah