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This photograph was taken on the occasion of the funeral of Everest Elliott Watrous.  Everest was born in Iowa and died in Utah.  He is buried in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. He and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins were the parents of three sons.  All were present for the […]

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John Bray Maiben was the seventh child of eleven born to his parents William Maiben and Catherine Williams Cater.  He, along with his brother Henry heard the message of the Restored Gospel from missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in their native England and were baptized.   They came to America and became […]

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Nephi James Bates (Junior) and Flora Louise Maiben celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Richfield, Utah in 1951.  They were married in 1901 in the Manti Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints by Flora’s uncle John Bray Maiben.

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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 […]

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Everest Elliott Watrous married Mary Maria Jenkins in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902.  Everest was nineteen and Mary sixteen.  This portrait was taken upon their marriage. They became the parents of three sons who were Mervin, Wayne and Raymond.   The youngest, Everest Raymond is our direct ancestor.

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This portrait preserves the six daughters of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison.  Eventually all would marry and add their husbands’ names.  They are Elizabeth Harriett Maiben Magleby, Flora Louise Maiben Bates, Phoebe Maiben Candland, Catherine Mary Maiben Candland ( Phoebe and Catherine married brothers ), Emily May Maiben Robbins and Rosina Maria Maiben Jones.  […]

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This is a photograph of the family of  Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 and children by his first wife Sarah Sprague Bates.  The photograph was taken in Monroe, Sevier County, Utah in about 1905. It was the site of the family homestead and family farm.  On the far left is direct ancestor Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 […]

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Some stories are hard to read.  The story of the life of Sarah Stedwell is one of those stories.  She was born to Abraham Stedwell and Rebecca Shefield in New York.  She was the second of ten children born to her parents.  Her family moved from New York to Ohio and then to LaHarpe in […]

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There are so many tragedies related to the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints.  One such tragedy occured at a place called Mt. Pisgah, which is a name from the Old Testament.  Here, the Saints were camped by the hundreds awaiting the time when they would move on to The Valley […]

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Henry Maiben was born in England to William Adam Maiben and Catherine Williams Cater.  He was the fourth child of twelve born to his parents.  His Maiben ancestors were originally from Scotland but his father moved from there to Brighton, England before Henry’s birth.  Henry and his closest sibling John Bray Maiben were both educated […]