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In the 1800s and early 1900s it was customary for a new bride to have calling cards. Usually she had them printed upon her marriage. She handed them to friends and family and used them in other ways. This is the calling card which Mary Maria Jenkins had printed upon her marriage to direct ancestor […]
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This is the Henry Maiben home in Provo, Utah County, Utah. This photograph was taken about 1875.
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Direct ancestor Henry Maiben is in the back row on the right. He was very involved with The Salt Lake Theatre in the early days of the Utah Territories. This photograph appeared in the early Deseret News in 1862.
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James Merrick and Mary Vaux are direct ancestors. Their daughter Maria Susannah Merrick became the mother of direct ancestor Flora Louise Maddison whose father was John Maddison. Flora Louise Maddison first married Emanuel Long but divorced in the first year of the marriage. She then married direct ancestor Henry Maiben. This is a copy of […]
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This is the George Morris home in the Seventeenth Ward of Salt Lake City, Utah. George was born in England in 1817 and died in Utah in 1897. He was the father of twenty-three children from three wives. The first, Jane Higgonbotham died before leaving England for America. She had one daughter named Jane. With […]
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The history of the Cottonwood Metals Mining Company was researched and compiled in 2005. It tells the story of the efforts of direct ancestors Henry Reynolds Watrous, his sons and grandson to develop what they hoped would be a promising mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was incorporated […]
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This portrait was taken in Utah upon the marriage of direct ancestors John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris. They became the parents of seven children. The sixth child, Mary Maria Jenkins married Everest Elliott Watrous when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. They are also direct ancestors.
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This is one of many keepsake photographs in our collection of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. She was born in Lee County, Iowa in 1848. Her parents, George and Hannah Maria Newberry Morris had been driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois by a mob. Rosella was born just across the Mississippi River […]
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This book was provided by Sue Simonich who is a descendant of James Newberry. She puts forth the theory that the Newberry’s were of Native American origin. Other Newberry researchers and descendants disagree as noted in the comments following this entry. I am grateful for the extensive research and comments which have been provided about […]
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Not much changed in Wellington, Kansas from the first photograph we found in 1890 to this photograph in 1907. By this time, ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous had been in Wellington for twelve years. Her sister’s husband Charles, worked in town. That means that the buildings we see included the place where he had an […]