Posts Tagged ‘colorado’
posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs
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Harley Younker was born in Colorado in 1871 to Jason T. Younker and Rachel Ann Thompson. Rachel Ann was the daughter of Jane Pancake Thompson who was the daughter of William Pancake Senior and a sister to our direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake. Harley is found on the “Early Student” list at Notre Dame University […]
posted by Sandy on Stories Within Stories
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Mary Ellen Byrnes was born in 1860 to her parents Michael Byrnes and a mother whose name we do not know. She was born in New York. At the age of ten, she came to Illinois on the Orphan Train. She was called a “soldier’s orphan”. She was adopted by our direct ancestors Jerome Timothy […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous
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Nephi James Bates was born to Nephi James Bates and Sarah Sprague in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah. He was the second child and first son of 12 children born to his parents. His personal journal has been preserved and tells us much more about him. In 1901 he married Flora Louise Maiben in the Manti […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
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Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson. Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children: Jane, Samuel and William Pancake. Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel […]