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Richard R. Watts
Richard R. Watts was a native of Ohio, where he was born in 1815, moved to Indiana in '20; to Illinois in '30; to Jefferson county, Iowa, in '42, and from thence to Marion county in the spring of '43, and settled near the present site of Coalport. During his early residence here he and his family suffered some of the privations common to the times. During one winter they were dependent upon the services of a coffee mill for their daily bread, and with it they ground ten bushels of buckwheat that season.