Welcome to our family tree!

Some families know a great deal about their roots; others know very little. This site is an attempt to record what I've learned about our family history. In these modern times, families tend to be scattered all over the country, if not the world. One of the goals of this web site is to help our family stay connected even though we live far apart.

I was raised up in Farmersville, a small town in California. My family moved from Mt. Ida Arkansas when I was approximately two months old. I had very little ideal of whom my relatives were. In my research, most of my information was obtained from talking to living relatives and from researching public records. In the course of doing this research, I've discovered that I have many more relatives than I ever thought possible!

This is a work in progress, so please contact me if you have any information that might help round out the picture.

My grandpa Robert Watkins and his family from Mt. Ida, Arkansas. My father John Grover Watkins Sr. is in the upper right corner.

Acknowledgments

I would like to mention some organizations I contacted to research the family tree and thank by name some family members who were especially helpful.

Uncle, Tillman Burrows, married to my Aunt Frieda Watkins. On the timeless research that contributed to our family ancestry

Rodney S. McKelroy Jr., My new found cousin, who did all the work on my mothers family whose name was McKelroy

Olwyn Whitehouse (ArkansasGenWeb Project) and his input on the Watkins and their family from Mt. Ida Arkansas

Debbie Baldwin, Betty Prince, Ruth Horne and Marilyn Williamson members of the Sesquicentennial Committee of Mt. Ida Arkansas and their relentless work on publishing Montgomery County our Heritage Volume One

Mozelle (Watkins) Gill, Mildred (Mingus) Watkins, My aunts, and all the numerous other family members who meet and contributed collective information from the Watkins Family reunions

Everybody who contributed information on allied names to the Watkins Family

And Doris, a Watkins genealogist, who has sent me considerable information on the Watkins family
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