Thomas 'Tom' Watts - Parents

It doesn't help that one of the inconsistency reports on this profile shows:

Thomas 'Tom' Watts had a birth date after his parent's (Oosta White Owl Oousta Great Eagle) death date.

Tip: Correct the birth date of Thomas 'Tom' Watts (born circa 1782) or check the death date of Oosta White Owl Oousta Great Eagle (died 1768).

which in itself strongly suggests she wasn't his mother and that probably one of the other two mothers connected on Ancestry was his actual mother.

The John and Mary (Hooper) from Ancestry is yet a third different set from Ancestry then.

This is what I'm seeing in my Hints on Ancestry:

Thomas (Big Tom) Watts
BIRTH 1764 Paint Clan Half Blood Cherokee
DEATH 1832 Benton Alabama USA

Father: John Watts (1720–1770)
Mother: Gi-Yo-Sti-Ko-Yo-He Wurteh (1728–)
Spouse: Fanata Prudence Watts (1775–1832)

and

Thomas 'Tom' Watts
BIRTH ABT 1772
DEATH ABT 1832

Father: John 'Young Tassle' Watts II (1744–1808)
Mother: Mahala Long? Cherokee (–1808)
Spouse: Fenattie Watts (1775–1832)

That’s all Internet junk. No such person as Tom Watts related to the white trader John Watts or his Cherokee son John. He had both white and Cherokee families, but no record of a Thomas. His Cherokee children were John and Wurteh.

John Watts the Cherokee man was born about 1752, his sister about 1750. He may have been the father of men called Big Rattlinggourd and Hard Mush.

Fenattie (Watts) Watts is who I was adding into my tree. She's my paternal 2nd cousin 6x removed. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a mistake that her husband was also a Watts and when I went to add him, that's when I discovered all the issues around his parentage. When I saw on Geni that he was Oosata's son, I was curious because I have her in my tree as an inlaw and never saw where she had a Watts husband, I saw the inconsistencey flag about her being dead when this Thomas was born, and saw the othe parents listed in Ancestry. So basically, my thing was just to make sure I have cousin Fenattie married to the correct Thomas Watts and that his parents are correct.

Erica, I searched for John 'Young Tassel' Watts and didn't find anything, so thanks for posting that link. I must not have typed in info for a good match. Turns out, that's an inlaw line for me because his daughter Rachel married one of my Vann cousins. So that's an interesting connection.

No evidence for any additional children for the Cherokee John Watts. Jim Hicks seems to have listed all the Watts he found as chiildren of the chief. The daughter of the Cherokee man Thomas Watts didn’t know who her grandparents were - if her grandfather was a famous chief,surely she would have known it.

Yes, you'd definitely think so.

I think you're definitely right, as sooo often happens with same-name folks, that people have been confusing the various Thomas Watts and their wives and parents. And no one bothers to document anything. lol Thanks for helping with this, Erica. I just don't want to connecct Fenattie to the wrong guy or him to the wrong parrents.

Hmmm...I hadn't seen that. Honestly, I don't use Family Search much because I never find things well-documented there and lots of errors. But I know others who swear by it like I do Geni and they don't liike Geni, so...you know how it goes. lol

I feel like just leaving it that my cousin Finnatie's husband was Thomas 'Tom' Watts and leave it at that for not. lol