Archive for the ‘Keepsake Photographs’ Category
This keepsake photograph of Mildred Bates was taken in about 1928. Her parents are Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Mildred married Everest Raymond Watrous in 1932. They became the parents of three children.
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.
This keepsake photograph of Mervin Reynolds and Wayne Elliott Watrous was taken in front of the family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Their father Everest Elliott Watrous and mother Mary Maria Jenkins, and other family members worked at mining in the canyon and lived there until the children were ready to go to school. After […]
This keepsake photograph was taken at the home of Justin and Clara Pugmire in Salt Lake City, Utah about 1947. Justin is holding grandson Douglas in the back right. Justin died in 1949. Clara, his wife in front on the right died in 1969. She is holding a granddaughter Robyn. Next to Clara is […]
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 […]
This portrait is of four of the seven children born to Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. All were born in Utah. They are Stella, Reta, Henry and Mildred. These were the four oldest living children at the time the portrait was taken. Between Stella and Reta was a daughter Irene who died […]
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 […]
These are the children of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. This keepsake photograph was taken about 1918. Left to right in the front row are Alta, Lucile and Mildred. In the back row are Reta, Henry and Stella. A seventh child, Irene died in 1903. This photograph was taken in Richfield, Sevier County, […]
This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous. Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915. Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest […]