Lott was the son of Ezekiel and Abigail (Dyer) Counts. He gave the following account of his family.
May 13, 1934
Cleveland, Virginia
I am a son of Ezekiel and Abigail Dyer Counts, and was born at Cleveland, Virginia, 185--. I am a brother of Joshua J. Counts. My grandfather Counts was named John and his wife was Peggy Kelley. They lived right near where I now live at Cleveland. I don't know the exact spot where they were buried, but it was up in the hollow above my house in the old Counts Graveyard, where my parents are buried. When I was a boy, I remember seeing only three or four graves there. Some were 25 or 30 feet below my parents graves.
I can remember when brother Jack Counts' first wife -Elizabeth- was buried - just a little east of the old graves. There was a little grave about 50 feet above where the old graves are, where I was told that a little darkey child, belonging to Granddaddy Counts, was buried. My father's first wife - Elizabeth Ambugey - was buried there - probably one of the old graves.
I don't remember anything about the old Kelleys. Grandmother Counts was Peggy Kelley. I don't remember hearing Daddy telling anything about the Kelleys, for I was young when he died. He died in 1871.
Source: Pioneer Recollections of Southwest Virginia, Collected, Compiled and Edited by Elihu Jasper Sutherland, Supplemented by Hetty Swindall Sutherland, 2nd Edition, 1984 and 1995, page 91.
Lott was the son of Ezekiel and Abigail (Dyer) Counts. He gave the following account of his family.
May 13, 1934
Cleveland, Virginia
I am a son of Ezekiel and Abigail Dyer Counts, and was born at Cleveland, Virginia, 185--. I am a brother of Joshua J. Counts. My grandfather Counts was named John and his wife was Peggy Kelley. They lived right near where I now live at Cleveland. I don't know the exact spot where they were buried, but it was up in the hollow above my house in the old Counts Graveyard, where my parents are buried. When I was a boy, I remember seeing only three or four graves there. Some were 25 or 30 feet below my parents graves.
I can remember when brother Jack Counts' first wife -Elizabeth- was buried - just a little east of the old graves. There was a little grave about 50 feet above where the old graves are, where I was told that a little darkey child, belonging to Granddaddy Counts, was buried. My father's first wife - Elizabeth Ambugey - was buried there - probably one of the old graves.
I don't remember anything about the old Kelleys. Grandmother Counts was Peggy Kelley. I don't remember hearing Daddy telling anything about the Kelleys, for I was young when he died. He died in 1871.
Source: Pioneer Recollections of Southwest Virginia, Collected, Compiled and Edited by Elihu Jasper Sutherland, Supplemented by Hetty Swindall Sutherland, 2nd Edition, 1984 and 1995, page 91.
Family Members
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Raleigh J Counts
1886–1915
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Dewitt Talmadge Counts
1888–1972
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Ora Counts
1890–1892
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Evans J Counts
1893–1958
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Edison Counts
1895–1975
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Wiley Dyer Counts
1897–1966
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Garland Burch Counts
1899–1980
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Flora Counts Davis
1901–1984
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Nicy Counts
1902–1910
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Andrew Montague Counts
1904–1968
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Lottie India Counts
1907–1996
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Tilden Monroe Counts Sr
1909–1990
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Ernestine Virginia Counts Childress
1915–1955
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