Archive for August 2010 | Monthly archive page

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

Nephi James Bates was born to Nephi James Bates and Sarah Sprague in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah.  He was the second child and first son of 12 children born to his parents.  His personal journal has been preserved and tells us much more about him.  In 1901 he married Flora Louise Maiben in the Manti […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

Nephi James Bates was born to Mary Ann Jones Jacaway and James Bates.  Nephi’s mother was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was living in the city of New Orleans at the time of James’ birth.  She had children from her first marriage to Fields Jacaway, who had died an […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

Jerome Timothy Watrous was born to Timothy Watrous and Mary Rowley in what would become Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio.  His father Timothy, along with many others, migrated from various places but primarily from Connecticut to Ohio.  There, Timothy Watrous bought a large piece of land.  Just a few months short of Jerome’s birth, his father […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories

1 comment

Martin Kern Schillinger was the third child of four born to Albert Jerome Schillinger and Margaret Conley.  His brother Lowell died as a child, sister Lois as a young adult while his younger brother Thomas lived until 2003.  Martin’s grandparents were Martin Schillinger who was born in Germany and migrated to the United States and […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories

No comments

There isn’t much to say about little Martin.  He was born sometime in 1885 or 1886 according to The Death Book in the sexton’s office in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.   He was buried next to his grandfather Samuel Crawford Pancake and in the company of many others of his extended […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

Mary Maria Jenkins was born to Rosella Newberry Morris and John Jenkins in the town of Pleasant Green, Utah.   Her father was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and her mother the child of recent converts from New England.  Mary was the sixth child of seven born to her parents.  At […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

This wonderful portrait of Pansy and Maude McVey was generously shared with us by Maude’s daughter Mary.  Pansy is the older of the two. Pansy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah during the time when her parents and extended family were living there and investing in various mining ventures.   It was for these two […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories

No comments

Maude McVey was the youngest child of six born to Ophelia Pancake McVey and William Franklin McVey.   In 1909 she married Harvey Buteau Mount and became the mother of three daughters; Roberta, Mary Emma and Elizabeth.  In about 1910, Maude’s father William built two beautiful Victorian- style homes in Fresno, California for his youngest daughters, […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous

No comments

Myrnie McVey was the daughter of Ophelia Pancake and William Franklin McVey.   She was the second child and second daughter born to her parents.  She was one of six children; four girls and two boys.  Their names were Grace, Myrnie, Ernest, William, Pansy and Maude.  In 1898 Myrnie married Mark Hutchison.  They became the parents […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories

No comments

Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson.  Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children:  Jane, Samuel and William Pancake.  Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel […]