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This Methodist church was built in 1892 in the little town of Terre Haute in Henderson County Illinois. There, in the next year, Mary June Reynolds Watrous was remembered upon her death. Her husband Jerome Timothy Watrous also came to this little church in a coffin to be remembered as one of the pioneers of […]
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Willia Adam Maiben was born in England shortly after his parents’ move from Scotland. His parents were Adam Maiben and Sarah Osmer. William was the third child of seven born to his mother Sarah. She died when William was eight years of age. In 1814, William married Catherine Williams Cater. They became the parents of […]
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William Lee McVey, also known as Willie was the son of William Franklin McVey and his wife Ophelia Pancake. Thus, William was one of many cousins of his generation which included our direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. Willie is thought to be about four years old in this portrait, which was taken in Salt Lake […]
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George Morris was born in England to Joseph Morris and Elizabeth Vernon. He was the oldest child of seven. In 1840 he married Jane Higgenbothom who died the next year. He heard the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in his native England and emigrated to America where he lived in the […]
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Frank Chance was certainly a well-known baseball player and coach of the Chicago Cubs and other major league teams. Our interest in him is not about baseball but is in his marriage and connection to our family history. Frank was born in Fresno, California. He married Edythe Lillian Pancake, who was the daughter of Stewart […]
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Flora Louise Maiben was the ninth child of eleven born to Flora Louisa Maddison and Henry Maiben. She was born in Provo, Utah and died in Richfield, Utah where she is buried next to her husband. She married Nephi James Bates (Jr.) in the Manti, Temple in 1901. Her uncle, John Bray Maiben performed the […]
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Flora Louisa Maddison was born in Belgium to Maria Susannah Merrick and John Maddison. Her parents were not married but were living as husband and wife. Her father John was married to Georgianna Curtis until his death. With Georgianna, John already had two daughters and with Flora’s mother he had four children. Three of the […]
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Everest Elliott Watrous was the third of four sons born to Henry Reynolds Watrous and Edith Glendora Pancake. He was born in the tiny Iowa town of Red Oak where his father Henry had gone to practice law. He joined an older brother named Earl and followed the death of an infant brother named Wayne. […]
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Carl Darling Pancake was the son of Stewart Megge Pancake and Priscilla Jane Freeland. His middle name is for his paternal grandmother’s line. She was Catharine Darling who married Samuel Crawford Pancake. He was born in Blandinsville, Illinois and died in California. He had one sibling, a sister, Edythe Lillian Pancake Chance, wife of […]
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Catharine Darling Pancake was born in 1826 in Virginia and died in 1892 in California. She was the daughter of Thomas Darling and Demie Butler. She was one of many siblings. This portrait of Catharine was taken about 1870 as judged by several clues. Those clues include her hair, her jewelry, her collar, and her […]