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Mabel Rowley was born in Connecticut in 1787 to Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. She was the youngest of five children. We know nothing of her childhood. Sometime before 1807, when her first son was born, she married Timothy Watrous. Their first son, William, was born in 1807 in Connecticut. Their second son Samuel […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]
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William Thomas Gale was the seventh child of twelve born to his parents Charles Gale and Amanda Jane Cloward. Six of his siblings died in infancy. His father heard the message of the Gospel from missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints and was baptized in his native England. Charles came to America […]
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This keepsake photograph was taken at the home of Justin and Clara Pugmire in Salt Lake City, Utah about 1947. Justin is holding grandson Douglas in the back right. Justin died in 1949. Clara, his wife in front on the right died in 1969. She is holding a granddaughter Robyn. Next to Clara is […]
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This wonderful photograph was in the collection of Mr. Painter in Terre Haute, Illinois. He made a copy for us which is shown here. Our ancestors Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous adopted a “soldier’s orphan” in about 1870. Her name was Mary Ellen Byrnes. She is shown here in the checkered dress. The […]
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Mary Ellen Byrnes was born in 1860 to her parents Michael Byrnes and a mother whose name we do not know. She was born in New York. At the age of ten, she came to Illinois on the Orphan Train. She was called a “soldier’s orphan”. She was adopted by our direct ancestors Jerome Timothy […]
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In 1924, our ancestor Nephi James Bates ran for the position of Sixth District Judge. It was an election which he won. This flyer was distributed prior to the election in order to introduce him to those who would be voting.
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Sarah Sprague was the third child of five born to her parents Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. Sarah’s mother of the same name had been married twice before she married Ithamer, Sarah’s father. Her life had been full of tremendous heartache. When Sarah was eighteen, she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 in Washington County, Utah. […]
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Amos Eli Barker was born in 1876 to John Thompson Barker and his wife Jane Pickett. He was the fourth child of eleven born to his parents in St. Charles, Bear Lake County, Idaho. He is the brother of our direct ancestor Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire. This keepsake photograph was taken during The Great Depression. […]