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Mabel Rowley was born in Connecticut in 1787 to Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. She was the youngest of five children. We know nothing of her childhood. Sometime before 1807, when her first son was born, she married Timothy Watrous. Their first son, William, was born in 1807 in Connecticut. Their second son Samuel […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]
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This wonderful photograph was in the collection of Mr. Painter in Terre Haute, Illinois. He made a copy for us which is shown here. Our ancestors Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous adopted a “soldier’s orphan” in about 1870. Her name was Mary Ellen Byrnes. She is shown here in the checkered dress. The […]
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Mary Ellen Byrnes was born in 1860 to her parents Michael Byrnes and a mother whose name we do not know. She was born in New York. At the age of ten, she came to Illinois on the Orphan Train. She was called a “soldier’s orphan”. She was adopted by our direct ancestors Jerome Timothy […]
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Sarah Sprague was the third child of five born to her parents Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. Sarah’s mother of the same name had been married twice before she married Ithamer, Sarah’s father. Her life had been full of tremendous heartache. When Sarah was eighteen, she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 in Washington County, Utah. […]
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This resolution honored Nephi James Bates upon his death in 1958. It was created and submitted by the Southern Utah Bar Association.
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Joseph Morris was the fifth child of seven born to his parents Joseph Morris and Elizabeth Vernon. We know him as the brother of our direct ancestor George Morris and as the leader of the apostate church called the Morrisites. Joseph was born in England. He worked in the mines and is said to have […]
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When all was said and done, we found much information about our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous, his wife Mary June Reynolds and their children Henry, Sarah Rebecca and adopted daughter Mary Ellen Byrnes. The one piece of their later life migration that has eluded us in a reference in Jerome’s obituary to a few years […]
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Few events were as monumental in the lives of many of our ancestors as the encampment at Winter Quarters in what is today Florence, Nebraska. Many of our ancestors have recorded their experiences in their journals which include the cold, hardships, hunger and fear that followed them from their comfortable homes in Nauvoo, Illinois. Many […]