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Maude McVey was the youngest child of six born to Ophelia Pancake McVey and William Franklin McVey. In 1909 she married Harvey Buteau Mount and became the mother of three daughters; Roberta, Mary Emma and Elizabeth. In about 1910, Maude’s father William built two beautiful Victorian- style homes in Fresno, California for his youngest daughters, […]
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Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson. Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children: Jane, Samuel and William Pancake. Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel […]
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Rosella Ann Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William and Maria Gallagher Pancake. She was the oldest child and daughter. She had two sisters, Mary Lucinda and Cora. Her little brother Oliver died at the age of two. He was the third child and only son of her parents. In 1865, […]
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Stewart was the second child and oldest son of Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. From all we have read and found, Stewart appears to have been a fine man. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the army and served from Coshocton County, Ohio for the Union in The Civil War. His uncle […]
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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 […]
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William Lee McVey, also known as Willie was the son of William Franklin McVey and his wife Ophelia Pancake. Thus, William was one of many cousins of his generation which included our direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. Willie is thought to be about four years old in this portrait, which was taken in Salt Lake […]
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Frank Chance was certainly a well-known baseball player and coach of the Chicago Cubs and other major league teams. Our interest in him is not about baseball but is in his marriage and connection to our family history. Frank was born in Fresno, California. He married Edythe Lillian Pancake, who was the daughter of Stewart […]
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Flora Louisa Maddison was born in Belgium to Maria Susannah Merrick and John Maddison. Her parents were not married but were living as husband and wife. Her father John was married to Georgianna Curtis until his death. With Georgianna, John already had two daughters and with Flora’s mother he had four children. Three of the […]