Author Archive

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

On the right is Maria  Susannah Merrick Maddison Thorne, on the left is her daughter Flora Louisa Maddison Long Maiben and in the back  Flora’s daughter Rosina Maria Maiben Jones with her daughter Mary Maiben Jones.   Both Maria Susannah and Flora Louisa are direct ancestors.

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

Everest Elliott Watrous on the porch of his Salt Lake City home in 1953.  This is a home his grandchildren remember.  Here, he lived with his second wife Susan Irvine Shirtz Watrous whom the family loved and called Grandma Susie.

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

Everest Elliott Watrous in 1944.   As one would expect, Everest is fishing with the photographer.  We see two poles and Everest’s fishing basket.  The license plate helps us to date the photograph and place it in his home of Utah.  Everest left a legacy of fly fishermen and women to the present day.  His great […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

Everest Elliott Watrous worked as a custodian in the public schools of Salt Lake City, Utah in his old age.  This photograph was taken about one year before his death.  After years of work in the mining business, he worked his last years in this capacity.  Everest is our direct ancestor.  We assume that the […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

This wonderful photograph was taken before “catch and release”.  Everest on the left and Earl are the sons of Henry Reynolds Watrous and his wife Edith Glendora Pancake from whom Henry was divorced in 1892.  Everest is our direct ancestor.  He married Mary Maria Jenkins.  They became the parents of three sons:  Mervin, Wayne and […]

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

This portrait preserves the six daughters of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison.  Eventually all would marry and add their husbands’ names.  They are Elizabeth Harriett Maiben Magleby, Flora Louise Maiben Bates, Phoebe Maiben Candland, Catherine Mary Maiben Candland ( Phoebe and Catherine married brothers ), Emily May Maiben Robbins and Rosina Maria Maiben Jones.  […]

posted by on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs

No comments

Five surviving children of John Thompson Barker and his wife Jane Pickett.  They are, left to right, Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire, Nancy Alice Barker Henderson Johnson, Amos Eli Barker, Annie Pearl Barker Merkley and Mary Elizabeth Barker Sorenson.  All were born in St. Charles, Bear Lake County, Idaho.   By 1970, the last child of John […]

posted by on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, I Remember

No comments

After giving birth to seven healthy children, Clara Lzina Barker and her husband Justin Gerald Pugmire became the parents of two additional daughters.  Both died upon their births and are buried in the Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah next to their parents.

posted by on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories

No comments

This photograph was taken upon the birth of Wilma Watrous in 1916 in Utah.  She was the only daughter of Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson.  This is a three generation photograph.  On the left is Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous and her husband Everest Elliott Watrous.  The three boys are the children of Mary and […]