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This keepsake photograph shows the choir of the Monroe Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints in 1883.  Monroe is a small town just beyond Richfield, Utah.  Both towns are in Sevier County.  The man in front on the right is the choir director.  He is ancestor Nephi James Bates 1848-1921.  He was […]

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This is the funeral program for Flora Louise Maiben Bates who was born in 1871 and died in 1960.  Her funeral took place in her home town of Richfield, Sevier County, Utah and was attended by many members of her family.   Following the funeral, she was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery next to her […]

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This is the entrance to the Richfield City Cemetery in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah.  It is the burial place of Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 and his wife Flora Louise Maiben 1871-1960.   Also buried in the cemetery is their son Henry James Bates 1908-1985 and a daughter Lucile Bates Ford 1914-1990.

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This keepsake photograph is of Flora Louise Maiben Bates, daughter of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison and wife of Nephi James Bates (1875).  Flora is the mother of seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood and have posterity to the present day.   This photograph was taken about 1959.  Flora died in 1960 and […]

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This is the original grave stone for Jerome Timothy Watrous who was born in 1818 in Ohio and died in 1904 in Illinois.  It was originally placed in a straight row with similar stones for his wife Mary June Reynolds Watrous and little daughter Lydia Viola who died at the age of four.  We we […]

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This keepsake photograph is of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.  They were married in 1902 when he was nineteen and she sixteen.  This photograph was most likely taken in about 1915 in either Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah.

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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 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, […]