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Grace Priscilla Hutchison was born in California to Mark Hutchison and Myrnie Vail McVey. She was the second child of two born to her parents. Her older sister was named Bernice. Grace was the granddaughter of William and Ophelia Pancake McVey. Ophelia was the sister of direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake who married Henry Reynolds […]
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Joseph Albert Pugmire was born to direct ancestors Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom. He was the third child of thirteen born to his parents. The oldest child was direct ancestor Justin Gerald Pugmire. Joseph was born in Fish Haven, Idaho and died in California. He served in World War I. This portrait was taken […]
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Priscilla Clark was born in England in 1826. In 1853, she married direct ancestor George Pickett after the death of his wife Maria Jarvis. George had three children at the time he married Priscilla. Daughter Jane Pickett is our direct ancestor. She married John Thompson Barker. Priscilla and George emigrated from England to America with […]
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The story of little Raymond Baird, aka Little Sousa is very interesting. In his reminiscences, Everest Raymond Watrous recalled when his mother, Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous worked for Little Sousa. That statement prompted us to research Little Sousa. Raymond Baird is listed in the census of Salt Lake City, living with his mother and a […]
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This is a photograph from the collection of Mary Emma, granddaughter of Ophelia Pancake and William McVey. It was taken in front of their home in Fresno California about 1922. Ophelia died in 1923 and her husband William in 1933. Ophelia is the oldest daughter of direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine […]
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Mary Reynolds was born in Iowa to William Painter Reynolds and Harriett Chenoweth. She was the fifth of six children born to her parents. She was known as Molly. She was the niece of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous and thus the first cousin of ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. In 1885 she married […]
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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. […]
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This is a photograph of Grace McVey and Sherman Adams. Grace McVey was born in Illinois to Ophelia Pancake and William Franklin McVey. She was the oldest child of six born to her parents. She migrated with her family from Illinois to Utah and then to California. Sometime before 1896, she married Ulysses Sherman Adams […]
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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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Juliet Galena Conwell Giesy was born in Utah and died there after being a resident for 50 years. Her first name was for her aunt Juliet, her mother’s sister. Her middle name, by which she went, is the name of an ore. Perhaps as her father was a miner, the name appealed to them. Her […]