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This is St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington, Kansas. This photograph was taken in 1910. In 1920 direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died here. For the week prior to her death, she had been under the care of a nurse in the nearby town called Geuda Springs. The medicinal properties of the springs in the […]
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When ancestor Glendora Watrous left Salt Lake City, Utah for Wellington, Kansas it was 1895. Just five years after this photograph was taken. Washington Street, which is the main street into downtown Wellington is today lined with homes and trees. The street is paved and has curbs and gutters. Glendora lived with her sister Camilla […]
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Ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous, mother of Everest Elliott Watrous and grandmother of Everest Raymond Watrous died in Geuda Springs, Kansas in the same year that this photograph was taken. She had traveled from nearby Wellington to Geuda Springs for medical care in the hopes that her condition might be improved. In October of 1920 […]
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In 1895, five years after this photograph was taken, our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous boarded a train in Salt Lake City for Wellington, Kansas. There, she lived with her sister Camilla Pancake Elliott whose husband Charles was a prominent attorney in town. She left behind her two sons, Earl and Everest who is our […]
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This archived photograph of a Wellington, Kansas ambulance was taken in 1920. That was the same year that ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous was transported by ambulance from the Sanitarium at Geuda Springs where she had been trying to get well, to St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington where she died. The road from Wellington […]
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In 1878, following his marriage to Edith Glendora Pancake, Henry Reynolds Watrous took his first job as an attorney. It was in the town of Red Oak in Montgomery County, Iowa. He moved to Red Oak with his wife Glendora and his family consisting of his parents Jerome and Mary Watrous and his two sisters […]
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This is Mohawk Village in Coshocton County, Ohio as of 2005. It is in this place that we find the site of the original Mohawk Methodist Church and its churchyard burial ground. This cemetery is the final resting place of direct ancestor William Pancake, his wife Mary Crawford and several of their descendants.
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William Pancake was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Johann George Pfannekuchen and his wife Anna. He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents. His father changed his name to George Pancake and went by that surname from the late 1700s forward. Direct ancestor William was always known by the […]
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There is no face for ancestor Edith Glendora. We have faces for some brothers but only one for her sisters, the face of her mother but not the face of her father. So, we will have to imagine her face. Edith Glendora Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio near the town of […]
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It was the obituary for our ancestor William Pancake in 1867 that told us where he was buried. The first Methodist Church in Jefferson Township was built on this spot in Warsaw, Ohio. Our ancestors were among the founding members of the church. Soon, a graveyard was plotted and grew up around the church. By […]