Samuel Sant Winterbottom was the second child of six born to his parents Thomas Winterbottom and Elizabeth Sant. His youngest sister Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom is our direct ancestor. She married Justin Pugmire. Samuel was just seven when his father Thomas drowned while working on a barge where the family lived. He was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints at the age of eight and emigrated with his mother and siblings to Utah and then Idaho. In 1896 he married Louise Wilhelmina Larson. They became the parents of four children. Thomas and his wife died in Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho and are buried in the Fish Haven City Cemetery, in Fish Haven, Idaho. They have posterity to the present day.
The migration of Samuel Sant Winterbottom
England to Utah to Idaho
This keepsake photograph was taken in 1958 at the home of Everest Elliott Watrous and Susan Shirts Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. The occasion was Everest’s funeral. These are his three sons. Left to right they are Everest Raymond 1909, Wayne Elliott 1905 and Mervin Reynolds 1903. All have posterity to the present day.
This keepsake photograph was taken at the family’s cabin near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Everest Raymond was the youngest son of three born to his parents Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.
This keepsake photograph was taken early in the marriage of Justin and Clara. They are our direct ancestors. Justin was born in 1892 and died in 1949. Clara was also born in 1892 and died in 1969. They are buried together in the Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah
Many of our direct ancestors received religious ordinances in The Endowment House. It was built under the direction of Brigham Young in 1855 to serve the Saints until the Salt Lake Temple was completed. It was located in Salt Lake City, Utah on the north-west corner of the Temple Block which is today Temple Square. It was considered a sacred and dedicated building by those early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. It was a two-story building built of adobe. During its period of use, a baptismal font was also built under ground level. The building was razed in 1889 although the Salt Lake Temple was not yet completed. Three other Utah temples were in operation, however. They were in St. George, Logan and Manti.
This home was built by direct ancestor Joseph Hyrum Pugmire for his family which included our ancestor Justin Pugmire. We do not know how long the family lived in it but eventually, Joseph sold it to his daughter Sarah Jane Pugmire and her husband Samuel Newton Henderson. Sarah and Samuel became the parents of thirteen children. This photograph shows a young Sarah Jane with seven of her children. We assume that they are Samuel, Ester, Florence, Mary, James, Jasper and Annie.
This is the family of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Six of their seven children grew to adulthood, married and had families. All have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken on the porch steps of Nephi and Flora’s home on Main Street in Richfield, Utah. The children are Henry, Reta Bates Hood, Mildred Bates Watrous, Alta Bates Christiansen, Lucile Bates Ford and Stella Bates Sidwell. An infant daughter, Irene, died at the age of one. Everyone in this photograph is deceased.
Marion Darling Pancake was the eighth child of thirteen born to his parents Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. He was born in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Utah with his sister Carrie and her husband Albert Conwell before 1880. They are found together in the census in Springville, Utah County, Utah. Marion and his brother-in-law Albert worked together in a mine. Within three years, the rest of Marion’s family migrated to Utah. His parents. His married siblings and their families. His unmarried siblings. All became involved as investors in Utah mines. Marion and Albert continued to work in them. In 1884, at the age of 27, Marion died of consumption. Tuberculosis. Marion had not married. His death prompted his father Samuel to purchase a plot of twelve graves in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City. The price was $40. That purchase suggests to us that this large family intended to make Utah their home.
Marion was the first person buried in the new plot. His grave was not marked. Two years later his brother-in-law Albert Conwell, with whom he had mined for many years died also. Of the same thing. When our research introduced us to Samuel Pancake and his family in the year 2001, we found that many members of Marion’s family had been laid to rest near him. Eventually, Marion’s father Samuel was buried there. The sexton says that the two men take up three graves. Three graves had not been marked. It was only through the discovery of the Death Book that we knew what we had to do. Through family contributions we placed grave stones for Marion Darling Pancake, his father Samuel Crawford Pancake and little Martin Watrous. Martin lived and died in 1885 and was the grandson of Samuel and the nephew of Marion. Each year we stop by to clean the grave stones and to remember a most interesting ancestral family.
The migration of Marion Darling Pancake
Ohio to Illinois to Utah
Sarah Rebecca Watrous married Clarence Roland Gittings in St. Louis, Missouri when she was forty-three years of age. It was the first marriage for her and the second for him. They built a home on land where her childhood home had once stood in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. Her father Jerome sold the land to Clarence. When Clarence died in 1907, Sarah Rebecca remained unmarried until her own death in 1926. While Clarence is buried in the Terre Haute City Cemetery in a grave marked with a stone, Sarah Rebecca died in Long Beach, California and was cremated and her ashes interred there. However, upon her husband Clarence’ death in 1907 she bought and placed a matching stone made for herself in anticipation of her burial next to him in the future. Underneath the stone is a burial plot without the remains of Sarah Rebecca Watrous Gittings. We assume that by the time she died, there was no one to bring her home. She had no children. Her parents and only brother were deceased and although she had been close to her brother’s son Earl Pancake Watrous and her husband’s sons, her ashes remained in California.
This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken about 1942 in Midvale, Utah. It is of Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire and her two daughters, Theora and June. The coat which Clara is wearing was familiar to all who knew her. It was a heavy coat and very warm. Subsequent photographs of Clara in front of her new home show her wearing the same coat.