Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa 1865
2010
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 Sarah Rebecca and Mary Ellen. Ten years had passed from the time this photograph was taken until this family lived here. While conditions had likely improved, it was still a small prairie town. Three of Henry and Glendora’s children were born in Red Oak. Earl, Wayne and Everest. Wayne died in Red Oak and was buried in the only cemetery. In 1884, Henry and Glendora left Red Oak with their two sons Everest and Earl and moved on to Utah. Henry’s extended family went another direction.