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In 1895, five years after this photograph was taken, our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous boarded a train in Salt Lake City for Wellington, Kansas. There, she lived with her sister Camilla Pancake Elliott whose husband Charles was a prominent attorney in town. She left behind her two sons, Earl and Everest who is our […]
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This archived photograph of a Wellington, Kansas ambulance was taken in 1920. That was the same year that ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous was transported by ambulance from the Sanitarium at Geuda Springs where she had been trying to get well, to St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington where she died. The road from Wellington […]
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In 1878, following his marriage to Edith Glendora Pancake, Henry Reynolds Watrous took his first job as an attorney. It was in the town of Red Oak in Montgomery County, Iowa. He moved to Red Oak with his wife Glendora and his family consisting of his parents Jerome and Mary Watrous and his two sisters […]
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William Pancake was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Johann George Pfannekuchen and his wife Anna. He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents. His father changed his name to George Pancake and went by that surname from the late 1700s forward. Direct ancestor William was always known by the […]
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There is no face for ancestor Edith Glendora. We have faces for some brothers but only one for her sisters, the face of her mother but not the face of her father. So, we will have to imagine her face. Edith Glendora Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio near the town of […]
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It was the obituary for our ancestor William Pancake in 1867 that told us where he was buried. The first Methodist Church in Jefferson Township was built on this spot in Warsaw, Ohio. Our ancestors were among the founding members of the church. Soon, a graveyard was plotted and grew up around the church. By […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
We are without most of the faces of our ancestors, the Pancake family, who came from Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. But, we know that from 1820 until almost 1880, they lived here. Their children were born here and buried here. This wonderful photograph of a funeral procession in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, […]
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William Pancake Senior and his son William junior and direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake were Masons. All lived their lives primarily in the town of Warsaw, in Coshocton County, Ohio. This Masonic Temple was likely built after the deaths of both Williams but was used by ancestor Samuel Pancake and his son Stewart Megge Pancake. […]
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In the middle 1870s, our ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his son-in-law William Franklin McVey bought a bank in the Illinois town of Blandinsville in McDonough County. The Pancake and McVey families moved from Ohio to Blandinsville. Many of the children of Samuel and Catharine Pancake were school age at the time. This school was […]
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Johann Pfannekuchen was born in Prussia. Today it is known as Germany. He emigrated to America where he married and settled in Pennsylvania. He is our direct ancestor. His son Johann George Pannekuchen was the first ancestor in this line to Americanize his name to Pancake. By the time our ancestor William was born in […]