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Everest Elliott Watrous on the porch of his Salt Lake City home in 1953.  This is a home his grandchildren remember.  Here, he lived with his second wife Susan Irvine Shirtz Watrous whom the family loved and called Grandma Susie.

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Everest Elliott Watrous in 1944.   As one would expect, Everest is fishing with the photographer.  We see two poles and Everest’s fishing basket.  The license plate helps us to date the photograph and place it in his home of Utah.  Everest left a legacy of fly fishermen and women to the present day.  His great […]

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Everest Elliott Watrous worked as a custodian in the public schools of Salt Lake City, Utah in his old age.  This photograph was taken about one year before his death.  After years of work in the mining business, he worked his last years in this capacity.  Everest is our direct ancestor.  We assume that the […]

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This wonderful photograph was taken before “catch and release”.  Everest on the left and Earl are the sons of Henry Reynolds Watrous and his wife Edith Glendora Pancake from whom Henry was divorced in 1892.  Everest is our direct ancestor.  He married Mary Maria Jenkins.  They became the parents of three sons:  Mervin, Wayne and […]

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This portrait preserves the six daughters of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison.  Eventually all would marry and add their husbands’ names.  They are Elizabeth Harriett Maiben Magleby, Flora Louise Maiben Bates, Phoebe Maiben Candland, Catherine Mary Maiben Candland ( Phoebe and Catherine married brothers ), Emily May Maiben Robbins and Rosina Maria Maiben Jones.  […]

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Five surviving children of John Thompson Barker and his wife Jane Pickett.  They are, left to right, Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire, Nancy Alice Barker Henderson Johnson, Amos Eli Barker, Annie Pearl Barker Merkley and Mary Elizabeth Barker Sorenson.  All were born in St. Charles, Bear Lake County, Idaho.   By 1970, the last child of John […]