APPENDIX B: Elizabeth Watts (Mrs.)
Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: April 27, 1937
Name: Elizabeth Watts (Mrs.)
Post Office: Route #2, Box 168, Muskogee, Oklahoma
Date of Birth: 1859
Place of Birth: Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation
Father: Wilson MILLER
Mother: Mrs. Nancy TONY MILLER
Information on mother: died in 1876, buried Goose Neck Bend, east of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Field Worker: L. D. Wilson
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Mrs. WATTS maiden name was Elizabeth MILLER. She was born in 1859, in the Canadian
District of the Cherokee Nation and is a full blood Cherokee Indian. Her first marriage was to a
Mr. WHITEWATER, now deceased, and in 1894, she was married to Mr. WATTS. Each marriage was consummated under the Cherokee laws.
Her mother was Mrs. Nancy TONY MILLER and she was born on the east bank of the
Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, in 1837. Her grandparents were enroute from
Georgia on the "Trail of Tears". They camped at the river several weeks waiting for the river to
recede. Disease broke out among them and many died, but Nancy was born and she, at least
replaced one of those who died.
Mrs. MILLER died in 1876, and is buried in the Goose Neck Bend neighborhood, east of
Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Her father, Wilson MILLER, was born in the Cherokee Nation. Was an orphan. He was reared by uncle Joe ROBERTSON, who was the father of Miss Alice ROBERTSON, late congress woman from Oklahoma. His home was with the ROBERTSON'S at the Old Tallahassee Mission, in the Creek Nation, at the present town of Tallahassee, Oklahoma. He knew little of his parents and, likewise, Mrs. WATTS knew nothing of her grandparents on her father's side. He is buried three miles south of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Grand parents on Mrs. WATTS' mother's side were named Richard and Nellie TONY and they came to the Indian Territory in 1837, due to removal of all Cherokees west of the Mississippi river.