William Watts traveled from Missouri across the Oregon Trail in 1852 along with his wife, six children and one nephew.
 
The Donation Land Claim Act was in effect

and William and his son Benjamin, received

hundreds of acres combined.  The claims

were side by side running along the East side

of the town next to the railroad tracks.
 
One of William's thirteen children was James

Washington Watts.  James married Elizabeth

Nessley who's family came to Scappoose

along the Oregon Trail.  Their homestead was

inside the Watts land claim along what is

now 6th Street.  James and Elizabeth had

five children one of which was James Grant

Watts (called Grant). 

 

James Grant Watts was born in 1864 in the

house of his parents on 6th Street. He lived

there until early adulthood. Then he met Arizona Rosamund Ewing (called Rose)  and was married on September 17, 1890 in Portland Oregon.  Grant and Rose's homestead was where the Scappoose Library is now.
 
The chairs Grant and Newt are sitting on are in the museum today.

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