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posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Stories Within Stories
The story of Abel Sant remains a sad tale. He was born in England to Isaac Sant and Martha Malan. He was the fifth of ten children born to his parents. In order to develop its new colonies in New South Wales in Australia, England depended on convict labor. Those transported to the new colony […]
posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
George Sant was the oldest child and son of his parents John Sant and Mary Shaw. He was born in England, where as an adult, he heard the message of missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized. He emigrated to America along with other members of his family. In 1855, […]
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Jane Sant was born in England in 1846 to John Sant and Mary Shaw. She was the seventh child of twelve born to her parents. Her sister Elizabeth Sant is our direct ancestor. Elizabeth married Thomas Winterbottom. In 1861, Jane married Nathan Smith, also a native of England. They became the parents of twelve children. […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Bunkerville, Nevada was an early Mormon settlement dedicated to raising cotton. Direct ancestor Ithamer Thomas Sprague agreed to go there to colonize. Bunkerville was the only successful early settlement to live The United Order. When Ithamer knew that he was going to this part of the country, not far from present-day St. George, Utah in […]
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William Thorn was born in England. He heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized. He emigrated to America and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah where he met our direct ancestor Maria Susannah Merrick. Maria had come from England as well, and brought with her […]
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Wilma Watrous was born to Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the niece of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. When her paternal grandmother Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died in 1920, she left several keepsakes to Wilma. One was a print of a famous painting called Madonna of […]
posted by Sandy on I Found, Stories Within Stories
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 Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
This is the entrance to the Pleasant Green Cemetery on top of a hill in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah. This cemetery was an early Utah cemetery and is relatively small and modest. It sits on a hill out of view from the roads below. Today, the property which surrounds it is […]
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In the 1800s and early 1900s it was customary for a new bride to have calling cards. Usually she had them printed upon her marriage. She handed them to friends and family and used them in other ways. This is the calling card which Mary Maria Jenkins had printed upon her marriage to direct ancestor […]