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Rosella Ann Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William and Maria Gallagher Pancake. She was the oldest child and daughter. She had two sisters, Mary Lucinda and Cora. Her little brother Oliver died at the age of two. He was the third child and only son of her parents. In 1865, […]
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Rosella was born to goodly parents, George Morris and Hannah Maria Newberry in Nauvoo, Illinois. George was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints from England and Hannah was from an early New England family who had also joined the Mormon Church. Rosella was the third child and third daughter born to […]
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Stewart was the second child and oldest son of Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. From all we have read and found, Stewart appears to have been a fine man. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the army and served from Coshocton County, Ohio for the Union in The Civil War. His uncle […]
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This Methodist church was built in 1892 in the little town of Terre Haute in Henderson County Illinois. There, in the next year, Mary June Reynolds Watrous was remembered upon her death. Her husband Jerome Timothy Watrous also came to this little church in a coffin to be remembered as one of the pioneers of […]
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Willia Adam Maiben was born in England shortly after his parents’ move from Scotland. His parents were Adam Maiben and Sarah Osmer. William was the third child of seven born to his mother Sarah. She died when William was eight years of age. In 1814, William married Catherine Williams Cater. They became the parents of […]
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William Lee McVey, also known as Willie was the son of William Franklin McVey and his wife Ophelia Pancake. Thus, William was one of many cousins of his generation which included our direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. Willie is thought to be about four years old in this portrait, which was taken in Salt Lake […]
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Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom was the daughter of Elizabeth Sant and Thomas Winterbottom. She was born in England, where her parents lived on a boat and hauled freight up and down the waterways, rivers and canals. She was the youngest of six children and should not be confused with an older sister named Elizabeth Hannah who […]
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George Morris was born in England to Joseph Morris and Elizabeth Vernon. He was the oldest child of seven. In 1840 he married Jane Higgenbothom who died the next year. He heard the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in his native England and emigrated to America where he lived in the […]
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Frank Chance was certainly a well-known baseball player and coach of the Chicago Cubs and other major league teams. Our interest in him is not about baseball but is in his marriage and connection to our family history. Frank was born in Fresno, California. He married Edythe Lillian Pancake, who was the daughter of Stewart […]
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Flora Louise Maiben was the ninth child of eleven born to Flora Louisa Maddison and Henry Maiben. She was born in Provo, Utah and died in Richfield, Utah where she is buried next to her husband. She married Nephi James Bates (Jr.) in the Manti, Temple in 1901. Her uncle, John Bray Maiben performed the […]