Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas Train Station 1890
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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 direct ancestor and their father Henry, whom she had divorced several years earlier. When Glendora arrived at this station, we wonder if she was coming for a visit or if she fully intended to stay. Her visit, beginning in 1895 lasted for the next 25 years until her death in 1920.