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Mildred Bates is the daughter of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. She was born in 1909 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. This keepsake photograph was taken on the steps of their Richfield home. Mildred Bates married direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous.
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Jesse Rowley was born in Connecticut to Elnathan Rowley and Lydia Wells. He was the eighth child born to his parents. The seventh child died at birth and had been named Jesse. When our ancestor was born, his parents used the same name for him. About 1774, Jesse and Bathsheba married. They became the parents […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]
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In 1924, our ancestor Nephi James Bates ran for the position of Sixth District Judge. It was an election which he won. This flyer was distributed prior to the election in order to introduce him to those who would be voting.
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Sarah Sprague was the third child of five born to her parents Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. Sarah’s mother of the same name had been married twice before she married Ithamer, Sarah’s father. Her life had been full of tremendous heartache. When Sarah was eighteen, she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 in Washington County, Utah. […]
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This resolution honored Nephi James Bates upon his death in 1958. It was created and submitted by the Southern Utah Bar Association.
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This is the funeral program for Nephi James Bates who was born in 1875 to Nephi James Bates and Sarah Sprague. His funeral was held in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. Following the service he was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery.
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These are two business cards which ancestor Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 used in his career as an attorney and as a judge. The earliest card says that his office is in his home. The later card shows him working in an office in town. It would have been quite easy for his children and wife […]
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The complete obituary for Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 is in our Family History file. This obituary appeared in The Richfield Reaper, which was the newspaper of the town of Richfield in Sevier County, Utah. The obituary has been archived by the newspaper.