CHAPTER - XXXVIII

The Potts' of Union District, South Carolina

FIRST GENERATION

1. Oswald POTTS was a native of Monmouthshire, England, and a Sea Captain, settled in Union District, South Carolina, perhaps about or before the middle of the eighteenth century. He had at least two sons.

Oswald POTTS had the following children:

+2 i. William POTTS.

+3 ii. Abner POTTS.

SECOND GENERATION

2. William POTTS. He was a farmer and Methodist minister and removed to Tennessee about the year 1800. TMP page 416 He was married to Elizabeth LAMB. William POTTS and Elizabeth LAMB had the following children:

4 i. Oswald POTTS was a Methodist minister.

5 ii. Rev. Thomas POTTS was a Methodist Minister.

+6 iii. Abner POTTS.

7 iv. Wesley POTTS.

8 v. William POTTS.

9 vi. Wilber POTTS.

10 vii. Joseph POTTS.

3. Abner POTTS died 1815 to 1820 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee. He resided in Montgomery Co., Tennessee.

Abner POTTS had the following children:

11 i. William POTTS resided in Indiana.

12 ii. Cartwright POTTS resided in Bedford County, Tennessee.

THIRD GENERATION

6. Abner POTTS died in Marshall County, Mississippi. He settled in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He was an attorney at law and farmer, and in 1827 represented his County in the Legislature of his State. While in Marshall County, Mississippi, in the year 1840, he was thrown from a horse and killed. TMP page 416



Abner POTTS had the following children:

13 i. James H. POTTS resided in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

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