Bertha Moats Watring in her residence, Lead Mine, W.Va., most likely 1950s.
From collection of Clayton and Violet Watring.

The images on this page are from the author’s collection. They come from the estate of Clayton and Violet Keiper Watring, who lived in Thomas, West Virginia.

Bertha Moats Watring was a descendant of Basil Moats. She was the great-grandmother of Carl E. Feather on his maternal grandfather’s side:

Tracing the Lineage from Europe:
Bertha Moats Watring, paternal grandmother of Cossette Watring Feather

  1. Johann Thomas Motz (1650-1723) & Anne B. Eberlin (1654-1730), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  2. Johann Georg Motz (1676-1762) & Anna B. Hirachmann (1684-1762), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  3. Johann Johannes John Motz (1704-1784), Baden-Württemberg, Germany & Maria Apallonia Buet Maubars (1698-unknown), Germany
  4. Jacob Moats (1745-1820) & Barbara Catharina Elisabeth Ferron (1755-1800) Revolutionary War soldier
  5. Tevalt Moats (1771-1848) & Hannah McDonald(1775-1847)
  6. Bazil L. Moats (1799-1877) & Priscilla Goff (1799-1873)
  7. Bazil L. Moats Jr. (1830-?) & Annie Elizabeth Sypolt (1832-1908)
  8. John Wesley Moats (1849-1934) & Eliza Ann Lipscomb (1847-1937)
  9. Bertha Moats (1873-1974) & George Edgar Watring (1878-1951)
  10. Clayton Henry Watring (1910-1968) & Violet Mae Keiper (1909-1977)
  11. Cossette Watring Feather (1932-2018)
  12. Carl E. Feather (1954-)
Elderly, hard-working couple
George Watring and his wife, Bertha Moats Watring. Date unknown.