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Juliet Pancake was born in Ohio to Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. She was the twelfth of thirteen children born to her parents. She was just fifteen when her parents left Illinois for Utah. In 1892, Juliet married Ralph Guthrie. They settled down in Utah where they lived their lives. Juliet and Ralph became […]
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Ralph Guthrie was born in Ohio and died in Utah. He married Juliet Pancake in Salt Lake City in 1892. Juliet and our direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous were sisters. When Ralph and Juliet were first married, he was listed as a stockbroker. In 1901, Ralph and Juliet became the parents of a son […]
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Joseph Albert Pugmire was born to direct ancestors Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom. He was the third child of thirteen born to his parents. The oldest child was direct ancestor Justin Gerald Pugmire. Joseph was born in Fish Haven, Idaho and died in California. He served in World War I. This portrait was taken […]
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Lydia is such a pretty name. In fact we have a granddaughter named Lydia. The same age as Lydia Viola was when she died of cholera at the age of four. Lydia was the oldest child of Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous. She was born in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute […]
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Direct ancestor William Painter was possibly born in New Jersey and died in Pennsylvania. From 1780 through 1783, William served in the Revolutionary War. He served in the company of Capt. William Smith, 6th Battalion, Chester County Militia. After he returned from three years of service, he married Martha Torton in 1784 in the Second […]
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Mary June Reynolds was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. Her father Henry was a Quaker. He baptized his daughter Mary June. Her mother was an Episcopalian. When she was still young, her parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois and settled […]
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My friend has a wonderful display of small chairs. It sits on top of her kitchen cabinets. I asked her about the chairs and she told me that one was hers when she was a little child and the rest had sentimental significance. She had collected them through the years. Leaning against the wooden chairs […]
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From the journals I have read, I know that my ancestors prayed over their fields, crops and gardens. Having an abundance of food to put away for the winter often meant the difference between life and death. If their crops failed, if the wind blew the fruit from their trees too soon, if pests ate […]
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You may think that this is just an ordinary painting. I will tell you why it is not. This painting hung in my husband’s family home for as long as he could remember. It was a pale but beautiful watercolor of a woman’s head. It wasn’t any particular woman, at least not as far as […]
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If you are old enough you will remember letters. Letters were thoughts on paper which a person wrote by hand. Sometimes a letter took some time to write because one had to think. Usually a person put a date on a letter which helped the recipient to know when it was written and how long […]