This keepsake photograph is of Sarah Sprague Bates. She was born in Utah in 1853 to Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. In 1870 she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921. They became the parents of twelve children but later divorced. This photograph was taken at the home of her son Nephi James Bates 1875-1958. The place is Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. The year is unknown. Nephi was her second child and is our direct ancestor. Upon her death, she was buried in the Monroe City Cemetery, Monroe, Sevier County, Utah.
This photograph came from the collection of Julie Martin. This couple is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families and was among other portraits taken in Utah. It appears to be a marriage portrait. Do you know this couple?
This keepsake photograph shows three generations of this Watrous family. Left to right back row: Mervin and Maryan Watrous, Everest Raymond and Mildred Watrous, Freida and Wayne Watrous. Middle row left to right: Everest Elliott Watrous and his second wife Susie, Gary Watrous and Michael Watrous. Front row left to right: Patricia Watrous, Carolyn Watrous, Diane Watrous and Gayle Watrous. Middle: direct ancestor Thomas Watrous. This photograph was taken in the home of Everest and Susie in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous on the right, with his three sons. They are Wayne Elliott, Everest Raymond and Mervin Reynolds Watrous. This photograph was likely taken in the early 1950s at the home of Everest and Susie Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. The center son, Everest Raymond Watrous is our direct ancestor.
This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his second wife Susan Irvine Shirtz. Everest boarded in her home and later married her. Everest’s children and grandchildren loved her and called her Grandma Susie. Susie was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints who had been baptized in her native Scotland by then Elder David O. McKay. Elder McKay later became President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. This photograph was taken in Salt Lake City, Utah.
We can only guess when this keepsake photograph was taken. We know that it is a photograph of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous in front of a cabin he built near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Nearby was the mine that consumed so much of Everest’s time as well as the time of his family. The mine was later incorporated as The Cottonwood Metals Mining Company. Everest married Mary Maria Jenkins in 1901. They became the parents of three sons. The youngest, Everest Raymond Watrous is our direct ancestor.
Direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous spent a lot of time in the mountains. After his successful career as an attorney came to an end, he and his sons continued to dream of finding the right mine and striking it rich. The barber in this keepsake photograph is Henry’s son and our direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. Henry is the one receiving the haircut. The man in the background is unknown. Henry died in 1923. This photograph was likely taken about 1920 in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.
This keepsake photograph was taken about 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Left to right are Watrous cousins Gary, Carolyn, Diane, Patricia, Michael and Mervin Watrous, father to Michael and Diane and uncle to the rest. Mervin is the brother of direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous. The family is standing in front of The Home and Garden Variety Store which Everest Raymond Watrous owned. Everest is the father of Carolyn and Patricia.
This keepsake photograph was taken in about 1914 in Richfield, Sevier, Utah. Not all of the children are known to us. The child in the middle front is Mildred Bates who was born in 1909 to Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Mildred married Everest Raymond Watrous in 1932. The doll she is holding is now a keepsake which Mildred gave to her granddaughter Melissa in the year 2000. The doll has a porcelain head and has been carefully preserved although she does not have her original clothing.
This is the marriage portrait of Alfred Henry Maiben and Annie Pritchart who were married in Manti, Utah in 1897. He is the son of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison Long Maiben and the brother of direct ancestor Flora Louise Maiben Bates. Henry and Annie had one known child named Maurice Alfred Maiben, who was born in 1901. This keepsake photograph was in the collection of Mildred Bates Watrous who was Alfred’s niece.