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William Thorn was born in England. He heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized. He emigrated to America and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah where he met our direct ancestor Maria Susannah Merrick. Maria had come from England as well, and brought with her […]
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This is the death certificate for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. He died at the Salt Lake County Hospital which was located at 2100 South and State Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. At one time, the hospital was considered to be centrally located and served all of the Salt Lake Valley. It has since […]
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Wilma Watrous was born to Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the niece of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. When her paternal grandmother Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died in 1920, she left several keepsakes to Wilma. One was a print of a famous painting called Madonna of […]
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Caroline Malone Watrous was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio in 1842 to Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Olivia Burke Muse. Olivia traces her ancestry through the Daughters of the American Revolution to several ancestors who fought and died in that war. In 1843, she migrated with her husband and many others from Ohio […]
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Samuel Watrous was born in Connecticut to Timothy Watrous and his first wife Mabel Rowley. About 1816, Mabel Rowley Watrous died, leaving two sons. They were Samuel and William. After the death of Mabel, Samuel’s father Timothy married their deceased mother’s sister Mary. She was known as Polly. Together with many other families, Timothy, Mary, […]
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This is the entrance to the Pleasant Green Cemetery on top of a hill in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah. This cemetery was an early Utah cemetery and is relatively small and modest. It sits on a hill out of view from the roads below. Today, the property which surrounds it is […]
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In the 1800s and early 1900s it was customary for a new bride to have calling cards. Usually she had them printed upon her marriage. She handed them to friends and family and used them in other ways. This is the calling card which Mary Maria Jenkins had printed upon her marriage to direct ancestor […]
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This is the Henry Maiben home in Provo, Utah County, Utah. This photograph was taken about 1875.
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Direct ancestor Henry Maiben is in the back row on the right. He was very involved with The Salt Lake Theatre in the early days of the Utah Territories. This photograph appeared in the early Deseret News in 1862.
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Caroline Penn was the first wife of Henry Maiben. She heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized in her native England. Caroline was a dressmaker. In 1845 she married direct ancestor Henry Maiben. They emigrated from England to America and made the trek west in […]