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This is a photograph of Everest Elliott Watrous and his second wife, Susan Irvine Shirts. Everest had been a widower since his wife’s death in 1929 and boarded in the home that Susan owned. In 1945 they married and remained in her home until near Everest’s death in 1958 when he went to live with […]
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Everest Elliott Watrous married Mary Maria Jenkins in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902. Everest was nineteen and Mary sixteen. This portrait was taken upon their marriage. They became the parents of three sons who were Mervin, Wayne and Raymond. The youngest, Everest Raymond is our direct ancestor.
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This keepsake photograph is of the first four children of Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom. The oldest is Justin Gerald on the right, next is Thomas William, then baby Joseph Albert and finally Griffith Clyde. Justin and Hannah eventually became the parents of thirteen children. This portrait was taken in 1899. The oldest, Justin […]
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Annie Matthews was born in England to William Matthews and Hepzibah Jarvis. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. She heard the Restored Gospel from the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints along with her siblings and parents. They were baptized in 1850. Annie emigrated to America with […]
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Direct ancestors Justin Gerald and Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire lived in many homes throughout their married lives but never owned one. When this neighborhood of new homes was built in the early 1940s, their youngest son Glenn took the money he and his wife were going to use to buy their first home and gave […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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This is a photograph of direct ancestor Jonathan Pugmire in his old age. A summary of his life is found elsewhere on this site.
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This is a photograph of the home which John Thompson Barker built for his wife Jane Pickett and his family. That family included our direct ancestor Clara Lzina Barker who married Justin Gerald Pugmire. It is located in St. Charles, Idaho.
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When we first visited the Pleasant Green Cemetery in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, we found our ancestor James Jenkins resting under this handmade grave stone. We assume that it was made by one of his children upon his death in 1904. It was cast from ordinary cement and carved. Dark stain […]
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The biographies of Everest Elliott Watrous and his son Everest Raymond Watrous were written by Thomas Watrous. Both tell the tale of this family and their efforts over many years to find the magical mine. Henry Reynolds Watrous is on the left. He was a prominent attorney in the Utah Territories but his heart was […]
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This is direct ancestor George Morris after he came to Utah. It is thought that this portrait was taken in about 1865 when he was forty-eight years of age.