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Clarence Roland Gittings was born in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois to James Gittings and Susannah Thompson. He was the oldest of three children born to his parents. His father had been married once before he married Charles’ mother. His parents moved from Ohio to LaHarpe in 1836. When Clarence grew to adulthood he purchased 200 […]
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Mary June Reynolds was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. Her father Henry was a Quaker. He baptized his daughter Mary June. Her mother was an Episcopalian. When she was still young, her parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois and settled […]
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Wilma Watrous was born to Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the niece of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. When her paternal grandmother Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died in 1920, she left several keepsakes to Wilma. One was a print of a famous painting called Madonna of […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Among the inspiring stories surrounding our ancestors is the story of John Painter Reynolds. He was the youngest child of eleven born to his parents Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. He came to Illinois from his birthplace in Pennsylvania in 1836. His father Henry bought a farm two miles north of LaHarpe. After the death […]
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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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The biographies of Everest Elliott Watrous and his son Everest Raymond Watrous were written by Thomas Watrous. Both tell the tale of this family and their efforts over many years to find the magical mine. Henry Reynolds Watrous is on the left. He was a prominent attorney in the Utah Territories but his heart was […]
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This photograph was taken upon the birth of Wilma Watrous in 1916 in Utah. She was the only daughter of Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson. This is a three generation photograph. On the left is Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous and her husband Everest Elliott Watrous. The three boys are the children of Mary and […]
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Rufus Richardson was born in Vermont to Jesse Richardson and Anna Jones. He was the youngest child of four born to his parents. He migrated with his family from Vermont to Connecticut to Ohio along with many others, including our direct ancestor Timothy Watrous and his family. They settled in Muskingum County, in Monroe Township […]
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Jerome Timothy Watrous was born to Timothy Watrous and Mary Rowley in what would become Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. His father Timothy, along with many others, migrated from various places but primarily from Connecticut to Ohio. There, Timothy Watrous bought a large piece of land. Just a few months short of Jerome’s birth, his father […]