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When we first visited the Pleasant Green Cemetery in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, we found our ancestor James Jenkins resting under this handmade grave stone. We assume that it was made by one of his children upon his death in 1904. It was cast from ordinary cement and carved. Dark stain […]
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This photograph was taken upon the birth of Wilma Watrous in 1916 in Utah. She was the only daughter of Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson. This is a three generation photograph. On the left is Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous and her husband Everest Elliott Watrous. The three boys are the children of Mary and […]
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This is a photograph of the family of Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 and children by his first wife Sarah Sprague Bates. The photograph was taken in Monroe, Sevier County, Utah in about 1905. It was the site of the family homestead and family farm. On the far left is direct ancestor Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 […]
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We came to know Abraham Maple during our quest to find the parentage of our ancestor Timothy Watrous. Timothy Watrous had two sons from his marriage to Mabel Rowley. They were Samuel and William. Timothy had one son from his marriage to Mabel’s sister Mary Rowley. He was our direct ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous. Louisa […]
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This is the city cemetery in Terre Haute, Henderson County, Illinois. I remember when I began my research into our ancestors in this place. The person I contacted was maintaining a website for US Genweb. She informed me that there was no such place as Terre Haute in Illinois. Well, here it is and we […]
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Hannah Maria Newberry Morris was born in New York to James Newberry and Mary Smith. She was the sixth of ten children born to her parents. Nothing is known about her childhood except that which is recorded in her father James’ ancestral summary. Hannah heard the message of the Gospel from missionaries of The Church […]
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Some stories are hard to read. The story of the life of Sarah Stedwell is one of those stories. She was born to Abraham Stedwell and Rebecca Shefield in New York. She was the second of ten children born to her parents. Her family moved from New York to Ohio and then to LaHarpe in […]
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Rufus Richardson was born in Vermont to Jesse Richardson and Anna Jones. He was the youngest child of four born to his parents. He migrated with his family from Vermont to Connecticut to Ohio along with many others, including our direct ancestor Timothy Watrous and his family. They settled in Muskingum County, in Monroe Township […]
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Juliet Galena Conwell Giesy was born in Utah and died there after being a resident for 50 years. Her first name was for her aunt Juliet, her mother’s sister. Her middle name, by which she went, is the name of an ore. Perhaps as her father was a miner, the name appealed to them. Her […]
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Albert G. Conwell was born in Illinois. He married Carrie Virginia Pancake, daughter of Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine Darling in about 1876. Albert and his wife Carrie were the first of her large family to come to Utah to work and invest in the explosion of profitable mines. Albert and Carrie settled […]