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posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, I Remember, Stories Within Stories
I have always loved this church. It was built on a corner just one half block from the home where I lived when I was born and where I lived until I was almost five. It was called the 29th Ward. When the Salt Lake valley was first settled, The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
There are so many tragedies related to the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. One such tragedy occured at a place called Mt. Pisgah, which is a name from the Old Testament. Here, the Saints were camped by the hundreds awaiting the time when they would move on to The Valley […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
The Evergreen Cemetery in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa Wayne Watrous was the infant son of Everest Elliott Watrous and Edith Glendora Pancake. He was the second child in a family of four sons. Only two lived to adulthood. Of Earl, Wayne, Everest and Martin, only Earl and Everest survived. Wayne followed brother Earl Pancake […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
James Newberry is one of the most interesting ancestors in our lines. He was born in New York to John Newberry and Jemima Benedict. His father was from New York and his mother from Connecticut. He was the eleventh child of thirteen born to his parents. In 1811 he married Mary Smith. They became the […]
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Elsewhere on this website is information about the owners of these two Victorian homes. In 1910, William Franklin McVey had them built for his daughters Maude McVey Mount and Pansy McVey Burke. They sit side by side in Fresno, California. Maude and Pansy McVey were first cousins of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. Their mother […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Ithamer Thomas Sprague was born in New York to Hezikiah Sprague and Abigail Jeffers. He was the eighth child of eleven born to his parents. Ithamer is an unusual name. It was the name of one of the sons of Aaron, who was charged with administering the rites of the Temple in the days […]
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Maria Susannah Merrick was born in England to James Merrick and Mary Vaux. Her life story has been somewhat difficult to tell. That is because for many years, from the time she came to America until just two years ago, the written history of her life contained incorrect information. We have corrected the record in […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Stories Within Stories
Justin Gerald Pugmire was born to Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom in Fish Haven, Bear Lake County, Idaho. He was the oldest child and son of 13 children born to his parents. In 1912 he married Clara Lzina Barker who was from St. Charles, Idaho. They lived for a time in the Bear Lake […]
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Martin Kern Schillinger was the third child of four born to Albert Jerome Schillinger and Margaret Conley. His brother Lowell died as a child, sister Lois as a young adult while his younger brother Thomas lived until 2003. Martin’s grandparents were Martin Schillinger who was born in Germany and migrated to the United States and […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
There isn’t much to say about little Martin. He was born sometime in 1885 or 1886 according to The Death Book in the sexton’s office in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was buried next to his grandfather Samuel Crawford Pancake and in the company of many others of his extended […]