William Tabler Watlington, the oldest living son of George and Catherine Watlington found his wife in Madison County, Tennessee in the William Ozier family. Elizabeth K. Ozier and William T. Watlington were united in marriage the 5th of August, 1847. From an 1860 Census and the new Chester County History we have names of children of William Ozier and Mary Smith, but are not sure it is a complete list. William (1804-1879) and Mary (1810-1893) were buried in Henderson City Cemetery where as many as eighteen Oziers have been buried, all believed to be close relatives. The Oziers often used three given names and therefore it becomes difficult to identify positively a child when only one of the names is given. They were quite prominent in the early history of Henderson, and Chester County, Tenn.
There seems to have been four Ozier relatives to have come to West Tennessee: Allen, b. 1796, in Carroll Co., 1830 Census; Jeremiah--in 1840 Census in Madison Co.; John (b. 1795, S.C.) who died in Fayette Co., Tenn. in 1850; and William and Mary who appear in Madison Co. in the 1860 Census. Elizabeth K. is reported to have been born to them in Carroll Co., Tenn. on August 4th, 1828. From these four early families there are still Oziers in Carroll, Chester, Madison, Weakley, Fayette and Shelby Counties today. The 1877 Beers Landowners Map shows the homes of J. Ozier and S. M. Ozier near Big Springs, Madison Co.
Mary Watlington Wolford has found out that the Oziers were a proud family of many generations in North America. They are identified as being of French Huguenot (Protestant) ancestry and some branches of the family came early to America. Both William and John's oral tradition is that they are of French descent and they came from South Carolina to the new lands of West Tennessee as they opened for settlement. William had been in West Tennessee several years before settling near Mt. Pinson, as indicated by the birth of Elizabeth K. in Carroll Co. in 1828. The Census indication is that William Ozier was born in North Carolina, not South Carolina.
The descendents of William Ozier have not been studied except those of Elizabeth K. and William T. Watlington. They are known to have extended to many points in West Tennessee. See Chester Co. History and Families [22], published in 1995.