Harriett Bailey McGregor 1854-1892
2010
Photographers of the past developed quite a talent for portraiture. This portrait is of Harriett Bailey who was born in England in 1854 and came to America as a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. In Salt Lake City, in 1869, she married another convert named James Bailey McGregor. He was from Scotland. Their first child was born in 1870. She was Clara Harriett McGregor. In 1893, one year after her mother’s death, Clara married direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous as his second wife. He had been divorced from first wife Glendora the previous year. Harriett also had two sons. The first, James was born in 1873 and died in 1901. After her divorce from James Bailey McGregor, Harriett married Mr. Livingston. They had one son. Harriett’s daughter Clara would later divorce Henry Watrous and marry a much older man named Louis Albert Christink. Harriett did not live to meet either of her daughter’s husbands.