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posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
Photographers of the past developed quite a talent for portraiture. This portrait is of Harriett Bailey who was born in England in 1854 and came to America as a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. In Salt Lake City, in 1869, she married another convert named James Bailey McGregor. He was from […]
posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
To our surprise, after the stories and memories of two generations, we discovered that direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous had a second wife. After his divorce from his first wife and direct ancestor Glendora in 1892, he married a much younger Clara Harriett McGregor. They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1893, which […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
This book was provided by Sue Simonich who is a descendant of James Newberry. She puts forth the theory that the Newberry’s were of Native American origin. Other Newberry researchers and descendants disagree as noted in the comments following this entry. I am grateful for the extensive research and comments which have been provided about […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Not much changed in Wellington, Kansas from the first photograph we found in 1890 to this photograph in 1907. By this time, ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous had been in Wellington for twelve years. Her sister’s husband Charles, worked in town. That means that the buildings we see included the place where he had an […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
This is St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington, Kansas. This photograph was taken in 1910. In 1920 direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died here. For the week prior to her death, she had been under the care of a nurse in the nearby town called Geuda Springs. The medicinal properties of the springs in the […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
When ancestor Glendora Watrous left Salt Lake City, Utah for Wellington, Kansas it was 1895. Just five years after this photograph was taken. Washington Street, which is the main street into downtown Wellington is today lined with homes and trees. The street is paved and has curbs and gutters. Glendora lived with her sister Camilla […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous, mother of Everest Elliott Watrous and grandmother of Everest Raymond Watrous died in Geuda Springs, Kansas in the same year that this photograph was taken. She had traveled from nearby Wellington to Geuda Springs for medical care in the hopes that her condition might be improved. In October of 1920 […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
In 1895, five years after this photograph was taken, our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous boarded a train in Salt Lake City for Wellington, Kansas. There, she lived with her sister Camilla Pancake Elliott whose husband Charles was a prominent attorney in town. She left behind her two sons, Earl and Everest who is our […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
This archived photograph of a Wellington, Kansas ambulance was taken in 1920. That was the same year that ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous was transported by ambulance from the Sanitarium at Geuda Springs where she had been trying to get well, to St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington where she died. The road from Wellington […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
In 1878, following his marriage to Edith Glendora Pancake, Henry Reynolds Watrous took his first job as an attorney. It was in the town of Red Oak in Montgomery County, Iowa. He moved to Red Oak with his wife Glendora and his family consisting of his parents Jerome and Mary Watrous and his two sisters […]