Henry Reynolds Watrous Death Certificate 1923
2010
This is the death certificate for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. It was issued by the State of Utah and obtained from its records. There are several points of interest on the certificate. Henry’s son Earl Pancake Watrous was the informant. He indicated that his father was a widower and listed his wife Glendora, who died in 1920 as the reason that Henry was a widower. While it is true that Glendora Pancake was Henry’s first wife, and died in 1920, Henry was divorced from Glendora and married for a second time to a young woman named Clara McGregor. While Clara was also dead, Henry and Clara were also divorced after which she had married for a second time. Without knowing these facts, the certificate itself would lead a researcher to think that Henry had only one marriage.
It appears that Henry sought medical care in October and died in December. It would be interesting to know if he ignored having the cancer examined to his peril. Henry died at the Salt Lake County Hospital, which was razed many years ago. The mortuary who handled his burial is no longer in business and its records were destroyed. That fact has made it impossible to know if Henry had a funeral or an obituary. We have not found evidence of either and his grandson, Everest Raymond Watrous didn’t talk about one. Henry was buried by his sons Earl and Everest. His grave was not marked until 2001 when we went looking for it and discovered that fact. Henry rests next to his son Earl who died about ten years after his father Henry. They are in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. Elsewhere in the cemetery is the burial place of Henry’s other son and direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous.