Archive for the ‘Ancestors of Thomas Watrous’ Category
Henry Maiben ( 1819-1883 ) was an English convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, who came to America with his brother. He first married Caroline Penn while in England and later married Flora Louisa Maddison as a plural wife. He was involved in the early theatre and musical productions in the Utah […]
Thelma Bolton was born 17 February 1906 to Archie Bolton and his wife Nora. She was the oldest of two children born to her parents. Her brother’s name was Howard A. Bolton who was born in 1909 in Illinois, who married Cecylia Broniec in 1936 and who died in 1964 in Illinois. Thelma’s paternal grandparents […]
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 […]
This group photograph is connected to a school science fair in Sevier County, Utah about 1893. The young man on the left in front is Nephi James Bates (1875-1958). Others in the group photograph appear in other photographs from the same sitting. Who are the young men in this and its companion photographs on this […]
This wonderful photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin. Some have said that it is an older Hannah Maria Newberry Morris, wife of George Morris. Others don’t know. Do you?
This keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin. The woman in the portrait is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.
The family of Nephi James Bates and his wife Flora Louise Maiben was faithful when it came to taking family photographs. It would seem that they never missed an opportunity when they were together. This photograph was taken in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah in the 1950s. Nephi died in 1958 so it was taken before […]