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This is a photograph from the collection of Mary Emma, granddaughter of Ophelia Pancake and William McVey. It was taken in front of their home in Fresno California about 1922. Ophelia died in 1923 and her husband William in 1933. Ophelia is the oldest daughter of direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine […]
This is the family of James Newberry Morris and Harriette Louisa Elliott. The portrait was taken about 1897 in Utah.
These are the children of James Newberry Morris. There were nine surviving children born to his wife Harriette Elliot and one from his marriage to Betsy Scholes. James was the brother of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. This page is taken from The Families of James Newberry Morris.
This is the family of George Morris and wife Hannah Maria Newberry. Our direct ancestor is Rosella Newberry Morris who is child number three. She married Lucius Peck and later John Jenkins.
This is the George Morris home in the Seventeenth Ward of Salt Lake City, Utah. George was born in England in 1817 and died in Utah in 1897. He was the father of twenty-three children from three wives. The first, Jane Higgonbotham died before leaving England for America. She had one daughter named Jane. With […]
This portrait was taken in Utah upon the marriage of direct ancestors John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris. They became the parents of seven children. The sixth child, Mary Maria Jenkins married Everest Elliott Watrous when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. They are also direct ancestors.
This is one of many keepsake photographs in our collection of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. She was born in Lee County, Iowa in 1848. Her parents, George and Hannah Maria Newberry Morris had been driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois by a mob. Rosella was born just across the Mississippi River […]