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Albert G. Conwell was born in Illinois.  He married Carrie Virginia Pancake, daughter of Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine Darling in about 1876.  Albert and his wife Carrie were the first of her large family to come to Utah to work and invest in the explosion of profitable mines.  Albert and Carrie settled […]

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James Newberry is one of the most interesting ancestors in our lines.  He was born in New York to John Newberry and Jemima Benedict.  His father was from New York and his mother from Connecticut.  He was the eleventh child of thirteen born to his parents.   In 1811 he married Mary Smith.  They became the […]

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Elsewhere on this website is information about the owners of these two Victorian homes.  In 1910, William Franklin McVey had them built for his daughters Maude McVey Mount and Pansy McVey Burke.  They sit side by side in Fresno, California.  Maude and Pansy McVey were first cousins of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous.  Their mother […]

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Mary Maria Jenkins was born to Rosella Newberry Morris and John Jenkins in the town of Pleasant Green, Utah.   Her father was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and her mother the child of recent converts from New England.  Mary was the sixth child of seven born to her parents.  At […]

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This wonderful portrait of Pansy and Maude McVey was generously shared with us by Maude’s daughter Mary.  Pansy is the older of the two. Pansy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah during the time when her parents and extended family were living there and investing in various mining ventures.   It was for these two […]

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Maude McVey was the youngest child of six born to Ophelia Pancake McVey and William Franklin McVey.   In 1909 she married Harvey Buteau Mount and became the mother of three daughters; Roberta, Mary Emma and Elizabeth.  In about 1910, Maude’s father William built two beautiful Victorian- style homes in Fresno, California for his youngest daughters, […]

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Myrnie McVey was the daughter of Ophelia Pancake and William Franklin McVey.   She was the second child and second daughter born to her parents.  She was one of six children; four girls and two boys.  Their names were Grace, Myrnie, Ernest, William, Pansy and Maude.  In 1898 Myrnie married Mark Hutchison.  They became the parents […]

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Stewart was the second child and oldest son of Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling.  From all we have read and found, Stewart appears to have been a fine man.   At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the army and served from Coshocton County, Ohio for the Union in The Civil War.   His uncle […]

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Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom was the daughter of Elizabeth Sant and Thomas Winterbottom.  She was born in England, where her parents lived on a boat and hauled freight up and down the waterways, rivers and canals.  She was the youngest of six children and should not be confused with an older sister named Elizabeth Hannah who […]

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Frank Chance was certainly a well-known baseball player and coach of the Chicago Cubs and other major league teams.  Our interest in him is not about baseball but is in his marriage and connection to our family history.  Frank was born in Fresno, California.  He married Edythe Lillian Pancake, who was the daughter of Stewart […]