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This is the family of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Six of their seven children grew to adulthood, married and had families. All have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken on the porch steps of Nephi and Flora’s home on Main Street in Richfield, Utah. The children are Henry, Reta […]
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Marion Darling Pancake was the eighth child of thirteen born to his parents Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. He was born in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Utah with his sister Carrie and her husband Albert Conwell before 1880. They are found together in the census in Springville, Utah County, […]
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Sarah Rebecca Watrous married Clarence Roland Gittings in St. Louis, Missouri when she was forty-three years of age. It was the first marriage for her and the second for him. They built a home on land where her childhood home had once stood in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. […]
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This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken about 1942 in Midvale, Utah. It is of Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire and her two daughters, Theora and June. The coat which Clara is wearing was familiar to all who knew her. It was a heavy coat and very warm. Subsequent photographs of Clara in front of her new […]
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This is a photograph of Everest Elliott Watrous and his second wife, Susan Irvine Shirts. Everest had been a widower since his wife’s death in 1929 and boarded in the home that Susan owned. In 1945 they married and remained in her home until near Everest’s death in 1958 when he went to live with […]
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Everest Elliott Watrous married Mary Maria Jenkins in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902. Everest was nineteen and Mary sixteen. This portrait was taken upon their marriage. They became the parents of three sons who were Mervin, Wayne and Raymond. The youngest, Everest Raymond is our direct ancestor.
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This keepsake photograph is of the first four children of Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom. The oldest is Justin Gerald on the right, next is Thomas William, then baby Joseph Albert and finally Griffith Clyde. Justin and Hannah eventually became the parents of thirteen children. This portrait was taken in 1899. The oldest, Justin […]
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Annie Matthews was born in England to William Matthews and Hepzibah Jarvis. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. She heard the Restored Gospel from the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints along with her siblings and parents. They were baptized in 1850. Annie emigrated to America with […]
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Direct ancestors Justin Gerald and Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire lived in many homes throughout their married lives but never owned one. When this neighborhood of new homes was built in the early 1940s, their youngest son Glenn took the money he and his wife were going to use to buy their first home and gave […]
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This is a photograph of direct ancestor Jonathan Pugmire in his old age. A summary of his life is found elsewhere on this site.