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. He was buried in the Mohawk Cemetery near Warsaw in Coshocton County, Ohio.
In 1864, Maria’s husband William, her nephew by marriage – Stewart Pancake and many of the men in the county, enlisted in the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. William became very ill early in his service and spent many months in an Army hospital in the south. When he returned home after his enlistment time was finished, he was still ill. He died within weeks of returning home. During this same period of time, two of the daughters of Samuel and Catharine Pancake died as well. These daughters were five and six at the time of their deaths. William, Emma and Pauline Pancake died within a few weeks of each other. They are buried together in the Mohawk Cemetery.
When Maria’s father-in-law, William Pancake, died in 1867 . . . he left a Will wherein he remembered her three daughters. They shared the portion of the inheritance which would have gone to their father had he been alive.
In 1870, Maria Wilmott Gallagher Pancake and her three daughters were found in Warsaw, Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio. Her real estate was valued at $600. The next year, Maria died. She was buried with her husband William, son Oliver, nieces Emma and Pauline Pancake, sister-in-law Jane Pancake Thompson and father-in-law William Pancake. For ten years after their mother’s death, the three daughters of William and Maria Pancake lived with their paternal grandmother Mary Crawford Pancake. Mary died in 1880 and was buried in the churchyard cemetery with her many family members.
Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William shared with their own children. Mary and William Pancake married in 1816 in Columbiana County, Ohio. They settled soon after in nearby Coshocton County, in Jefferson Township near the town of Warsaw. Mary and William became the parents of three children. They were oldest daughter Jane, middle child and direct ancestor Samuel and youngest son William.
Jane married William Thompson and gave birth to two daughters. Jane died relative to the birth of the second daughter in the year of 1840. She was just 24 years of age. Her husband re-married but Jane’s two daughters are often found in the home of their maternal grandparents Mary and William Pancake. Mary’s second child is ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake. He was born in 1820 and married in 1844. Samuel and his wife Catharine Darling became the parents of thirteen children. Direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous is among them. William also married and became the father of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but a son, Oliver, died in 1862 at the age of 20 months.
Later census records show that Mary’s father Samuel Crawford also lived in her home. Mary died in 1880 and is buried at the site of the Mohawk Methodist Church in Warsaw Ohio. While the church is gone, its graveyard is still in use. Her grave is marked with a personal grave stone. Mary and her husband William Pancake were among the founding members of the Church where their bodies rest.
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 the daughters of Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine Darling. They were the sisters of direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous. How heartbreaking to lose two little daughters and granddaughters to death in just four weeks time. Just two days before the death of little Emma, their uncle William Pancake Junior died as well. He had contracted an illness during his service for the Union during the Civil War. After a year in a military hospital he returned home. He died soon after in the town of Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio. Thus, the Pancake Family mourned for many lost lives. William Pancake Senior mourned for his son and namesake. William mourned for his two little granddaughters. Samuel Crawford Pancake, our direct ancestor, mourned for the loss of his daughters and his brother. William junior’s wife and three little daughters mourned for their father and their two cousins.
Only two years passed before the family mourned again. William Pancake Senior died and was buried with his son, Emma and Pauline and a little grandson who died before his father went to war. He was Oliver. He was not even two. Mary Crawford Pancake lived on. Her daughter-in-law Maria, wife of her deceased son William cared for her three daughters until she, too, passed away in 1871. In about 1876, Samuel Crawford Pancake and his large family migrated from Ohio to Blandinsville, Illinois. His mother Mary stayed behind where she died in 1880. She was buried with everyone else. The graves were marked and the stones set. These many members of the same family rest in the old churchyard of the first Methodist Church in the area.
Somewhere nearby, most likely in the very same place, is the burial place of Jane Pancake Thompson. She was the oldest daughter of William and Mary Crawford Pancake. She died in childbirth many years earlier. Her daughters were mentioned in their grandfather’s Will of 1867 along with the daughters of Jane’s brother William Junior. By 1880, our ancestor Samuel Pancake had lived through the deaths of his parents, three of his children (one who is listed in the census but disappears while still a child), his only sister and only brother, his brother’s wife and his little nephew Oliver. He had also lost to death his grandson Wayne Watrous and would lose another grandson named Martin Watrous in 1885. In 1883, in Utah, our ancestor Samuel mourned the death of his son Marion who was twenty-seven. Marion died of consumption from his work in the mines.
The photographs in this summary and on this website were kindly taken by a stranger at my request. We may not have all of the faces of this large and interesting family, but we have their names and feel that we know them.
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 simply said “Ethel”.
Perhaps the families of these women already have photographs of their ancestors. Perhaps they don’t. These faces are posted on the chance that someone will find a face they have been looking for. If you find your mother, grandmother, aunt, sister or friend . . . the photograph is yours.
The lower left woman is Ethel.
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 Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald who was born in Missouri. They became the parents of three children. They migrated from Iowa to Illinois and on to Utah before 1920. Her husband was an attorney who specialized in the affairs of mining. He worked with his wife’s cousin Henry Reynolds Watrous who was also an attorney. Mary died in California and was cremated. Her remains were sent to Utah where they were buried in a family plot in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City which would eventually hold her, her husband, her son Charles, his two wives and a daughter Marie Isabel. Her third child Thomas died and was buried in Florida.
It is not known if Mary and Hartson had posterity beyond this family group. Charles did not have children and Marie Isabel did not marry or have children. It is not known if Thomas married or had children. When we discovered the burial plot for this family, all grave stones had names and dates engraved except Marie’s stone. Her birth date was engraved but not her death date. That fact would suggest that since she was the last to die, there was no one to see to that task.
The migration of Mary Reynolds Fitzgerald
Iowa to Illinois to Utah to California
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 issues of mining. The family of Hartson Fitzgerald and Mary Reynolds migrated to Utah after 1911 but before 1920. Hartson was likely involved with our ancestors in the Watrous family who incorporated their mining efforts into The Cottonwood Metals Mining Company in 1916 but worked it long before that time.
When Charles retired, he held the rank of Colonel in the United States Army. He served in both World War I and World War II. He married twice and both wives are buried with him. They were Bertha Crawshaw, who died in 1931 and Mary Alice Householder whom he married in 1962. We do not know the marriage date for Charles and Bertha. Charles did not have any children.
Buried in the same plot in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah with Charles Bertha and Mary Alice are Charles’ parents Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald, his mother Mary Reynolds and his sister Marie Isabel. Marie Isabel Fitzgerald died in 1985 in Washington State. His brother Thomas died in Florida in 1973. The remains of Charles’ mother and sister were both cremated but were buried in full burial plots.
The migration of Charles Reynolds Fitzgerald
Iowa to Illinois to Utah
Joseph Butler was born in Virginia in 1742 to Thomas Butler and Jane Gilbert. He was the fourth of five children born to his parents. He served in the 7th, 9th and 10th regiments of The Virginia Continental Line in the American Revolution. In 1764 he married Elizabeth Burley. They became the parents of seven children. Their fourth child, Thomas, married Elizabeth Severns. They were the parents of two known children. The youngest, Didema, is our direct ancestor. She married Thomas Darling. Their daughter Catharine married Samuel Pancake. Catharine and Samuel’s daughter Edith Glendora married Henry Reynolds Watrous.
In about 1803, Joseph and his family migrated to Newcastle Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. They settled on the Washington Darling farm which is today known as Evergreen Farm. The local Indians frequently called at the Butler home where they were invited to eat with the family.
Joseph died in 1811 and was buried in the Butler family plot 1/4 mile east of Mohawk Dam in Coshocton County, Ohio. The original grave stones for Joseph and some descendants are found on the ground as shown in the photograph in this summary. Recently, a family member who now owns the property placed a monument to those buried in the plot.
The migration of Joseph Butler
Virginia to Ohio
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 Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1916 these men incorporated their efforts into The Cottonwood Metals Mining Company. They found partners including Mont Ferry, the mayor of Salt Lake City and invested large sums of their own money. Mayor Ferry is behind Everest Elliott Watrous who is the man who is sitting. The complete history of this venture was researched and written by Thomas Watrous in recent years. A complete copy of the document is in the archives at the Utah State Historical Society and in our personal file.
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 .
This keepsake photograph is of Everest Raymond Watrous on his way to Heart Lake in Wyoming. Isn’t it interesting that people used to go many places without all of the fancy equipment that is available today ? He has the essentials: a sleeping bag and backpack, a pail, a lunch sack and a fishing pole. His son and other descendants have also made the same trek into Heart Lake. It is a long and difficult hike.