This is a photograph from the collection of Mary Emma, granddaughter of Ophelia Pancake and William McVey. It was taken in front of their home in Fresno California about 1922. Ophelia died in 1923 and her husband William in 1933. Ophelia is the oldest daughter of direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine Darling. She is the sister of direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake who married Henry Reynolds Watrous in 1878 in Illinois.
James Merrick and Mary Vaux are direct ancestors. Their daughter Maria Susannah Merrick became the mother of direct ancestor Flora Louise Maddison whose father was John Maddison. Flora Louise Maddison first married Emanuel Long but divorced in the first year of the marriage. She then married direct ancestor Henry Maiben. This is a copy of a marriage notation in English records. They became the parents of ten children. Our ancestor Maria was number five.
This is the family of James Newberry Morris and Harriette Louisa Elliott. The portrait was taken about 1897 in Utah.
These are the children of James Newberry Morris. There were nine surviving children born to his wife Harriette Elliot and one from his marriage to Betsy Scholes. James was the brother of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. This page is taken from The Families of James Newberry Morris.
This is the family of George Morris and wife Hannah Maria Newberry. Our direct ancestor is Rosella Newberry Morris who is child number three. She married Lucius Peck and later John Jenkins.
This is the George Morris home in the Seventeenth Ward of Salt Lake City, Utah. George was born in England in 1817 and died in Utah in 1897. He was the father of twenty-three children from three wives. The first, Jane Higgonbotham died before leaving England for America. She had one daughter named Jane. With second wife Hannah Maria Newberry George became the father of twelve children including direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris. With plural wife Annie Matthews, George became the father of ten children.
The family records of the the James Newberry Morris Family are a wonderful example of diligence and attention to detail. They document the lives of James and his two wives, Harriette Louisa Elliott and Betsey Sholes. We obtained a copy of the extensive record from members of the family in 2003. James Newberry Morris was the brother of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. All of the family group sheets are carefully typed and without error. There are photographs for every name in the record. There are personal histories of each of James Newberry Morris’ children of which there were eleven. Because James’ childhood and recollections of his parents are similar to our ancestor Rosella’s recollections, this wonderful document compliments our history of Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins.
The history of the Cottonwood Metals Mining Company was researched and compiled in 2005. It tells the story of the efforts of direct ancestors Henry Reynolds Watrous, his sons and grandson to develop what they hoped would be a promising mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was incorporated in 1916 with over one hundred thousand dollars in investor capital. This document is on file at The Utah Historical Society and is our personal file.
This photograph was taken of miners coming out of the Lindell Lode mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was the principle mine which was one of several listed in the Cottonwood Metals Mining document.
This is an actual shares certificate issued by the new company. The five investors were Henry Reynolds Watrous, Everest Elliott Watrous, Earl Pancake Watrous, Monte Ferry, who was the Mayor of Salt Lake City and his brother-in-law Mr. Truman who was one of the owners of the Silver King Mine in Park City, Utah. The names of Truman and Ferry are on the certificate.
This portrait was taken in Utah upon the marriage of direct ancestors John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris. They became the parents of seven children. The sixth child, Mary Maria Jenkins married Everest Elliott Watrous when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. They are also direct ancestors.
This is one of many keepsake photographs in our collection of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. She was born in Lee County, Iowa in 1848. Her parents, George and Hannah Maria Newberry Morris had been driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois by a mob. Rosella was born just across the Mississippi River in Iowa. Her parents made several attempts to join the Saints for the trek west. When Rosella was two weeks old, they began. The family arrived in Utah the same year and settled in a makeshift shelter for the winter. There, Rosella’s mother cared for three small children including her new baby daughter.
In 1867, Rosella married Lucius Peck. The marriage lasted but a short time. In 1870 she married John Jenkins whose family had emigrated from Wales as converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. They became the parents of seven children including direct ancestor Mary Maria who was the sixth child.
Rosella was a teacher in the area of Pleasant Green and Coonville, which is present-day Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah. In her old age, she climbed a ladder to pick cherries and fell. A lump developed on her arm which resulted in the amputation of her right arm. In her last years, she lived with her daughter Ada. She died of cancer in 1928 and was buried in the Pleasant Green Cemetery in present-day Magna. She is buried next to her husband John Jenkins. Her daughter Mary, our direct ancestor, died the following year at the young age of forty-four.