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posted by Sandy on Essays About Ancestral Things, I Found, Stories Within Stories
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I thought that I had read every book on our bookshelves and some books more than once. As I put one book away, an old and worn book caught my attention. I reached in and brought it out. It was an old book and looked like it had been read and handled. It had a […]
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Mary Ellen Byrnes was the adopted daughter of ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Mary June Reynolds. She became the sister of direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. The LaHarper newspaper became the central point for all information about people who lived or had lived in the counties of Hancock and Henderson, Illinois. This notice […]
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During our search for ancestral faces, we received a copy of this photograph which was taken in the 1800s. We hoped it was a photograph of ancestors Jerome and Mary Watrous from Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. However, we have not been able to identify those in the photograph. Having never seen the face […]
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During our quest to find ancestral faces in the counties of Henderson and Hancock in Illinois, we received this copy of a photograph. We cannot match it to the face of our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous 1818-1904. It is on file at the Historical Society in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois. I really don’t like faces […]
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Caroline Malone Watrous was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio in 1842 to Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Olivia Burke Muse. Olivia traces her ancestry through the Daughters of the American Revolution to several ancestors who fought and died in that war. In 1843, she migrated with her husband and many others from Ohio […]
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Samuel Watrous was born in Connecticut to Timothy Watrous and his first wife Mabel Rowley. About 1816, Mabel Rowley Watrous died, leaving two sons. They were Samuel and William. After the death of Mabel, Samuel’s father Timothy married their deceased mother’s sister Mary. She was known as Polly. Together with many other families, Timothy, Mary, […]
posted by Sandy on I Found, Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
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When our relative, a native of Richfield, Utah died . . . her belongings included many photographs of women she had labeled as “my dear Richfield friends”. Only one photograph had a name or any information written on it. It was the woman in the lower left of the last display of photographs. Her photograph […]
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This Methodist church was built in 1892 in the little town of Terre Haute in Henderson County Illinois. There, in the next year, Mary June Reynolds Watrous was remembered upon her death. Her husband Jerome Timothy Watrous also came to this little church in a coffin to be remembered as one of the pioneers of […]