Archive for August 2010 | Monthly archive page
This keepsake photograph is of Flora Louise Maiben Bates, daughter of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison and wife of Nephi James Bates (1875). Flora is the mother of seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood and have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken about 1959. Flora died in 1960 and […]
These are the children of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. This keepsake photograph was taken about 1918. Left to right in the front row are Alta, Lucile and Mildred. In the back row are Reta, Henry and Stella. A seventh child, Irene died in 1903. This photograph was taken in Richfield, Sevier County, […]
This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous. Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915. Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest […]
This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We believe that behind them is one of three cabins which Everest, his father and his brother Earl built in the area which is today The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. In one of these cabins, our […]
This photograph was taken on the occasion of the funeral of Everest Elliott Watrous. Everest was born in Iowa and died in Utah. He is buried in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. He and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins were the parents of three sons. All were present for the […]
This wonderful portrait was taken about 1908. On the left is Mervin and on the right is his younger brother Wayne. They added a third brother to their family in 1909 who is Everest Raymond Watrous, our direct ancestor. These three boys are the children of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.
John Bray Maiben was the seventh child of eleven born to his parents William Maiben and Catherine Williams Cater. He, along with his brother Henry heard the message of the Restored Gospel from missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in their native England and were baptized. They came to America and became […]
Nephi James Bates (Junior) and Flora Louise Maiben celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Richfield, Utah in 1951. They were married in 1901 in the Manti Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints by Flora’s uncle John Bray Maiben.