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posted by Sandy on Stories Within Stories
Lydia is such a pretty name. In fact we have a granddaughter named Lydia. The same age as Lydia Viola was when she died of cholera at the age of four. Lydia was the oldest child of Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous. She was born in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Mary June Reynolds was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. Her father Henry was a Quaker. He baptized his daughter Mary June. Her mother was an Episcopalian. When she was still young, her parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois and settled […]
posted by Sandy on I Hope, Stories Within Stories
My friend has a wonderful display of small chairs. It sits on top of her kitchen cabinets. I asked her about the chairs and she told me that one was hers when she was a little child and the rest had sentimental significance. She had collected them through the years. Leaning against the wooden chairs […]
posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
From the journals I have read, I know that my ancestors prayed over their fields, crops and gardens. Having an abundance of food to put away for the winter often meant the difference between life and death. If their crops failed, if the wind blew the fruit from their trees too soon, if pests ate […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
You may think that this is just an ordinary painting. I will tell you why it is not. This painting hung in my husband’s family home for as long as he could remember. It was a pale but beautiful watercolor of a woman’s head. It wasn’t any particular woman, at least not as far as […]
posted by Sandy on I Remember, Stories Within Stories
If you are old enough you will remember letters. Letters were thoughts on paper which a person wrote by hand. Sometimes a letter took some time to write because one had to think. Usually a person put a date on a letter which helped the recipient to know when it was written and how long […]
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Priscilla Clark was born in England in 1826. In 1853, she married direct ancestor George Pickett after the death of his wife Maria Jarvis. George had three children at the time he married Priscilla. Daughter Jane Pickett is our direct ancestor. She married John Thompson Barker. Priscilla and George emigrated from England to America with […]
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The story of little Raymond Baird, aka Little Sousa is very interesting. In his reminiscences, Everest Raymond Watrous recalled when his mother, Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous worked for Little Sousa. That statement prompted us to research Little Sousa. Raymond Baird is listed in the census of Salt Lake City, living with his mother and a […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Mary Smith was born in New York to Samuel Smith and Jane Stephens. In 1811 she married direct ancestor James Newberry. They heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized along with many members of both families. They migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois where they gathered with […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
In the early days of our country, most of the population was in New England. The people of these states, including Connecticut were faithful record keepers. Their handwritten records have been transcribed and preserved from many sources and repositories. These records give to us the family of ancestor Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. They […]