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Eugene was the sixth child born to William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. His sister Jane is also featured on this website. He was born in Peoria County, Illinois. In 1883 he married Hattie Mohler. Nothing else is known about her or whether they became the parents of any children. He later married for a […]
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Jane Marion Watrous was born in 1844 to William Watrous and Harriet Janet Rose. She was the oldest of ten children born to her parents. Her father William and our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous were both half-brothers and first cousins. Jane’s father’s parents were Timothy Watrous and Mabel Rowley. Our ancestors were Timothy Watrous and […]
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Lois Margaret Schillinger was born in Moline, Illinois in 1901 to Albert Jerome Schillinger and Margaret Conley. She was the second child and only daughter of four children born to her parents. At a young age, Lois became involved with a young man named Luke P. Young who played in a band. They married before […]
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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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Richard Jones was born in South Carolina to parents whose names we can’t confirm. He served in The War of 1812 and for his service he eventually secured a land warrant which he used for his land in Illinois. In about 1816, he married Margaret Jenkins and together they became the parents of eleven children. […]
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Mary Ann Jones was born in Tennessee, the oldest child of eleven born to her parents Richard Jones and Margaret Jenkins. Her family heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized. The family migrated through several states and towns with the Saints, settling for a time […]
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Direct ancestor Margaret Jenkins Jones was born in Tennessee to John Jenkins and Ann Stevens. She was the oldest of eight children born to her parents. In about 1816 she married Richard Jones. To them were born eleven children. The oldest, Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies is our direct ancestor. Our ancestral line comes […]
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JosephThompson Painter was born in Pennsylvania to William Painter and Martha Torton. He was the seventh of nine children born to his parents. His sister, Sarah Painter Reynolds is our direct ancestor. She married Henry Reynolds. Among the many accomplishments of Joseph Painter there are these: Served three years for the Union in the Civil […]
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Juliet Pancake was born in Ohio to Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. She was the twelfth of thirteen children born to her parents. She was just fifteen when her parents left Illinois for Utah. In 1892, Juliet married Ralph Guthrie. They settled down in Utah where they lived their lives. Juliet and Ralph became […]
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Lydia is such a pretty name. In fact we have a granddaughter named Lydia. The same age as Lydia Viola was when she died of cholera at the age of four. Lydia was the oldest child of Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous. She was born in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute […]