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Mathew Morris was the youngest child of seven born to his parents Joseph Morris and Elizabeth Vernon.  His brother George Morris is our direct ancestor through George’ wife Hannah Maria Newberry Morris.  He was born in England and died in Utah.

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This keepsake photograph is of Mervin Reynolds Watrous, born 1903 on the right and his brother Wayne Elliott Watrous, born 1905 on the left.  They were the two oldest sons of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.  Their younger brother Everest Raymond, born 1909 is our direct ancestor.

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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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Samuel Sant Winterbottom was the second child of six born to his parents Thomas Winterbottom and Elizabeth Sant.  His youngest sister Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom is our direct ancestor.  She married Justin Pugmire.  Samuel was just seven when his father Thomas drowned while working on a barge where the family lived.  He was baptized a member […]

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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 keepsake photograph was taken early in the marriage of Justin and Clara.  They are our direct ancestors.  Justin was born in 1892 and died in 1949.  Clara was also born in 1892 and died in 1969.  They are buried together in the Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah

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This home was built by direct ancestor Joseph Hyrum Pugmire for his family which included our ancestor Justin Pugmire.  We do not know how long the family lived in it but eventually, Joseph sold it to his daughter Sarah Jane Pugmire and her husband Samuel Newton Henderson.  Sarah and Samuel became the parents of thirteen […]

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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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This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken about 1942 in Midvale, Utah.  It is of  Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire and her two daughters, Theora and June.   The coat which Clara is wearing was familiar to all who knew her.  It was a heavy coat and very warm.   Subsequent photographs of Clara in front of her new […]