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Maria Wilmott Gallagher was born in Ohio in 1839. In 1856, at the age of seventeen, she married William Crawford Pancake. He was the youngest child of William and Mary Crawford Pancake. Maria and William became the parents of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but one son, Oliver, died before his second birthday. […]
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
posted by Sandy on I Found, Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
When our relative, a native of Richfield, Utah died . . . her belongings included many photographs of women she had labeled as “my dear Richfield friends”. Only one photograph had a name or any information written on it. It was the woman in the lower left of the last display of photographs. Her photograph […]
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Mary Reynolds was born in Iowa to William Painter Reynolds and Harriett Chenoweth. She was the fifth of six children born to her parents. She was known as Molly. She was the niece of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous and thus the first cousin of ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. In 1885 she married […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald was born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1888 to Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald and Mary Reynolds. His mother Mary was the first cousin of our ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. Charles was the oldest of three children born to his parents. Charles’ father was known as Hart Fitzgerald. He was an attorney who specialized in […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
This is a keepsake photograph of the mine which was a part of the family of Everest Elliott Watrous, his brother Earl Pancake Watrous, their father Henry Reynolds Watrous and Everest’s children. It was called the Lindell Lode. It was located in the area now known as The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of […]
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The biography of Everest Raymond Watrous 1909-1989 was written by his son in 2009. It was distributed to immediate family members. It is available to purchase on Amazon.com .
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
Henry Reynolds Watrous was born in 1846 in the small, farming town of Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. This town is near LaHarpe and quite close to Nauvoo. Henry was the oldest child and only son born to his parents Jerome Timothy Watrous and Mary June Reynolds. However he had a half-sister named Caroline […]
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This brochure was just one of the many offerings at the Home and Garden Variety Store at 17th South and 17th East in Salt Lake City, Utah and the Brighton Village Store in Brighton, Utah. Everest Raymond Watrous, the owner of both stores, was the first representative merchant in the Salt Lake City area […]
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Jesse Rowley was born in Connecticut to Elnathan Rowley and Lydia Wells. He was the eighth child born to his parents. The seventh child died at birth and had been named Jesse. When our ancestor was born, his parents used the same name for him. About 1774, Jesse and Bathsheba married. They became the parents […]