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This wonderful keepsake photograph captures the fifth grade class at Union Elementary School in Union (now Midvale), Utah in 1937. It captures the styles of the times and the poverty that many people were still experiencing following the Great Depression if judging clothes is any indicator. I love the crossing guard in the front row.
This companion photograph was taken the same day as the previous photograph. On the back row is my grandfather Justin Gerald Pugmire. Left to right in the middle row are Norval Pugmire, Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom Pugmire, Justin Pugmire, Elenore Pugmire, Pearl Pugmire, Roy Steadman who is the husband of Betsy Josephine Pugmire and Clyde Pugmire. […]
I found this wonderful photograph among my mother’s belongings. The man in the middle with the white beard is my grandfather Justin Gerald Pugmire (1892-1949 ). He is the oldest child in the family of Justin ( 1866-1956 ) and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom Pugmire (1870-1958 ). His arms are around his parents. On my grandfather’s […]
Robert Clinton Watrous was the son of LeRoy C. Watrous and Eva Strickland. His father was the first cousin of our ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. Thus, Robert was the grandson of William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. In 1920 he married Anna Elizabeth Melcer. They were the parents of one daughter named Virginia. Robert was […]
Eugene was the sixth child born to William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. His sister Jane is also featured on this website. He was born in Peoria County, Illinois. In 1883 he married Hattie Mohler. Nothing else is known about her or whether they became the parents of any children. He later married for a […]
Jane Marion Watrous was born in 1844 to William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. She was the oldest of ten children born to her parents. Her father William and our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous were both half-brothers and first cousins. Jane’s father’s parents were Timothy Watrous and Mabel Rowley. Our ancestors were Timothy Watrous and […]
Mary Ellen Byrnes was the adopted daughter of ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Mary June Reynolds. She became the sister of direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. The LaHarper newspaper became the central point for all information about people who lived or had lived in the counties of Hancock and Henderson, Illinois. This notice […]