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Mary Ann Jones was born in Tennessee, the oldest child of eleven born to her parents Richard Jones and Margaret Jenkins.  Her family heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized.  The family migrated through several states  and towns with the Saints, settling for a time […]

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Direct ancestor Margaret Jenkins Jones was born in Tennessee to John Jenkins and Ann Stevens.  She was the oldest of eight children born to her parents.  In about 1816 she married Richard Jones.  To them were born eleven children.  The oldest, Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies is our direct ancestor.  Our ancestral line comes […]

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This is an excerpt from a much larger article about ancestor Anthony Sadowski.  Our personal files contain it in its entirety.  This ancestral line of Thomas Watrous intercepts the line which includes the Vansant Family.   Anthony, sometimes written as Antoni, married Mary Bird.  Their daughter Sophia married William Darling.  Their son Robert Darling married Mary […]

The Vansant Family

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This is one of the ancestral lines of Thomas Watrous and thus his children and grandchildren.  Beginning with the oldest ancestor mentioned in this summary, we descend as follows: Harman Gerretszen Van Sandt, son of Gerret Stoffelse Van Sandt.  Harman married Elizabeth Brauwers Cathrina, daughter of Harman and Elizabeth Van Sandt married Daniel Severns Elizabeth, […]

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Bunkerville, Nevada was an early Mormon settlement dedicated to raising cotton.  Direct ancestor Ithamer Thomas Sprague agreed to go there to colonize.  Bunkerville was the only successful early settlement to live The United Order.  When Ithamer knew that he was going to this part of the country, not far from present-day St. George, Utah in […]

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This keepsake photograph shows direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous, center, and two friends.  This photograph was taken about 1930 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Everest Raymond’s parents were Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.  He was the youngest of three sons born to his parents.  He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah . […]

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This keepsake photograph of Mildred Bates was taken in about 1928.  Her parents are Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben.  Mildred married Everest Raymond Watrous in 1932.  They became the parents of three children.

Mildred Bates 1920

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Mildred Bates is the daughter of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben.  She was born in 1909 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah.  This keepsake photograph was taken on the steps of their Richfield home.  Mildred Bates married direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous.

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In 1924, our ancestor Nephi James Bates ran for the position of Sixth District Judge.  It was an election which he won.  This flyer was distributed prior to the election in order to introduce him to those who would be voting.

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Sarah Sprague  was the third child of five born to her parents Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell.  Sarah’s mother of the same name had been married twice before she married Ithamer, Sarah’s father.  Her life had been full of tremendous heartache.  When Sarah was eighteen, she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 in Washington County, Utah.  […]