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William and Mary Crawford Pancake married in Ohio in 1818. They affiliated with the first of the churches in the area which was Methodist. As this compiled History of Warsaw, Ohio indicates, “Mr. and Mrs. Pancake” were among the first members.
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William Pancake Senior and his son William junior and direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake were Masons. All lived their lives primarily in the town of Warsaw, in Coshocton County, Ohio. This Masonic Temple was likely built after the deaths of both Williams but was used by ancestor Samuel Pancake and his son Stewart Megge Pancake. […]
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In the middle 1870s, our ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his son-in-law William Franklin McVey bought a bank in the Illinois town of Blandinsville in McDonough County. The Pancake and McVey families moved from Ohio to Blandinsville. Many of the children of Samuel and Catharine Pancake were school age at the time. This school was […]
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Johann Pfannekuchen was born in Prussia. Today it is known as Germany. He emigrated to America where he married and settled in Pennsylvania. He is our direct ancestor. His son Johann George Pannekuchen was the first ancestor in this line to Americanize his name to Pancake. By the time our ancestor William was born in […]
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Maria Wilmott Gallagher was born in Ohio in 1839. In 1856, at the age of seventeen, she married William Crawford Pancake. He was the youngest child of William and Mary Crawford Pancake. Maria and William became the parents of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but one son, Oliver, died before his second birthday. […]
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Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William […]
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
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When our relative, a native of Richfield, Utah died . . . her belongings included many photographs of women she had labeled as “my dear Richfield friends”. Only one photograph had a name or any information written on it. It was the woman in the lower left of the last display of photographs. Her photograph […]
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Mary Reynolds was born in Iowa to William Painter Reynolds and Harriett Chenoweth. She was the fifth of six children born to her parents. She was known as Molly. She was the niece of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous and thus the first cousin of ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. In 1885 she married […]
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Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald was born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1888 to Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald and Mary Reynolds. His mother Mary was the first cousin of our ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. Charles was the oldest of three children born to his parents. Charles’ father was known as Hart Fitzgerald. He was an attorney who specialized in […]