These are two business cards which ancestor Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 used in his career as an attorney and as a judge. The earliest card says that his office is in his home. The later card shows him working in an office in town. It would have been quite easy for his children and wife to remember his phone number !
The complete obituary for Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 is in our Family History file. This obituary appeared in The Richfield Reaper, which was the newspaper of the town of Richfield in Sevier County, Utah. The obituary has been archived by the newspaper.
This keepsake photograph shows the choir of the Monroe Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints in 1883. Monroe is a small town just beyond Richfield, Utah. Both towns are in Sevier County. The man in front on the right is the choir director. He is ancestor Nephi James Bates 1848-1921. He was quite a musician and songwriter according to those who knew him.
The back of the photograph contains the vital information to identify those in the photograph, complete with the exact date on which this keepsake photograph was taken.
This portrait is of four of the seven children born to Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. All were born in Utah. They are Stella, Reta, Henry and Mildred. These were the four oldest living children at the time the portrait was taken. Between Stella and Reta was a daughter Irene who died under one year of age. Following the youngest child in the portrait two additional daughters were born to Nephi and Flora. They were Alta and Lucile. All seven children are deceased but have significant posterity to the present day.
This is the funeral program for Flora Louise Maiben Bates who was born in 1871 and died in 1960. Her funeral took place in her home town of Richfield, Sevier County, Utah and was attended by many members of her family. Following the funeral, she was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery next to her husband Nephi James Bates who died in 1958.
This is the entrance to the Richfield City Cemetery in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. It is the burial place of Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 and his wife Flora Louise Maiben 1871-1960. Also buried in the cemetery is their son Henry James Bates 1908-1985 and a daughter Lucile Bates Ford 1914-1990.
This keepsake photograph is of Flora Louise Maiben Bates, daughter of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison and wife of Nephi James Bates (1875). Flora is the mother of seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood and have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken about 1959. Flora died in 1960 and was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah next to her husband Nephi who had died two years previous to her death.
These are the children of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. This keepsake photograph was taken about 1918. Left to right in the front row are Alta, Lucile and Mildred. In the back row are Reta, Henry and Stella. A seventh child, Irene died in 1903. This photograph was taken in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. All children in this photograph lived to adulthood and have posterity to the present day.
This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous. Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915. Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest and his father Henry Reynolds Watrous wherein Henry tells his son how to care for a lame horse. He provides a recipe for liniment. This photograph was taken the same day as another photograph in this collection which is of just Everest and Mary. Mary and Everest are dressed the same in both photographs. This photograph was taken in Utah.
This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We believe that behind them is one of three cabins which Everest, his father and his brother Earl built in the area which is today The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. In one of these cabins, our ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous was born in 1909. We estimate that this photograph was taken about 1915.