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Samuel Sant Winterbottom was the second child of six born to his parents Thomas Winterbottom and Elizabeth Sant. His youngest sister Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom is our direct ancestor. She married Justin Pugmire. Samuel was just seven when his father Thomas drowned while working on a barge where the family lived. He was baptized a member […]
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This keepsake photograph was taken in 1958 at the home of Everest Elliott Watrous and Susan Shirts Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. The occasion was Everest’s funeral. These are his three sons. Left to right they are Everest Raymond 1909, Wayne Elliott 1905 and Mervin Reynolds 1903. All have posterity to the present day.
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This keepsake photograph was taken at the family’s cabin near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Everest Raymond was the youngest son of three born to his parents Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.
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This keepsake photograph was taken early in the marriage of Justin and Clara. They are our direct ancestors. Justin was born in 1892 and died in 1949. Clara was also born in 1892 and died in 1969. They are buried together in the Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah
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Many of our direct ancestors received religious ordinances in The Endowment House. It was built under the direction of Brigham Young in 1855 to serve the Saints until the Salt Lake Temple was completed. It was located in Salt Lake City, Utah on the north-west corner of the Temple Block which is today Temple Square. […]
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This home was built by direct ancestor Joseph Hyrum Pugmire for his family which included our ancestor Justin Pugmire. We do not know how long the family lived in it but eventually, Joseph sold it to his daughter Sarah Jane Pugmire and her husband Samuel Newton Henderson. Sarah and Samuel became the parents of thirteen […]
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This is the family of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Six of their seven children grew to adulthood, married and had families. All have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken on the porch steps of Nephi and Flora’s home on Main Street in Richfield, Utah. The children are Henry, Reta […]
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Marion Darling Pancake was the eighth child of thirteen born to his parents Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. He was born in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Utah with his sister Carrie and her husband Albert Conwell before 1880. They are found together in the census in Springville, Utah County, […]
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Sarah Rebecca Watrous married Clarence Roland Gittings in St. Louis, Missouri when she was forty-three years of age. It was the first marriage for her and the second for him. They built a home on land where her childhood home had once stood in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. […]
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This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken about 1942 in Midvale, Utah. It is of Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire and her two daughters, Theora and June. The coat which Clara is wearing was familiar to all who knew her. It was a heavy coat and very warm. Subsequent photographs of Clara in front of her new […]