Compiled By: Becky Sue (Bennett) Wallace
Published: 1998, Irving, Texas, U.S.A., by the compiler
Format: Softbound, 8.5" x 11", 146 pages including index
The compiler thanks those who have helped her, and explains the numbering system used and the abbreviations used.
Tradition alleges that Thomas Potts came from Northumberland, England, perhaps about 1720 to 1730, and settled on the Pedee River in the Georgetown District of South Carolina. His descendants were clanish, and when the occasion demanded, they removed as a body to another location.
The family in this generation still lived within South Carolina in Craven and Chester Counties.
About 1836 a large migration took place from South Carolina to Winston Co., Mississippi. Some branches of the family moved to Bienville Parish, Louisiana, settling in the Liberty Hill - Brush Valley area.
Many of the families were wealthy prior to the Civil War, but the war brought a close to the plantations and wealth greatly diminished. Many members fought for the Confederacy, and many died.
After the Civil War some members of the family removed to Texas to start new lives.
Those members who came to Texas mainly settled in Grayson and surrounding counties. Some moved to Jones Co., and one branch moved to Garza Co.
By the eighth generation the Potts surname is gone, at least for the descendants herein traced.
Note: This work is an expansion of chapter XXXV of Thomas Maxwell Potts’ compilation, The Potts Family (short title).
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