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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 […]

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There isn’t much to say about little Martin.  He was born sometime in 1885 or 1886 according to The Death Book in the sexton’s office in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.   He was buried next to his grandfather Samuel Crawford Pancake and in the company of many others of his extended […]

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Everest Elliott Watrous was the third of four sons born to Henry Reynolds Watrous and Edith Glendora Pancake.  He was born in the tiny Iowa town of Red Oak where his father Henry had gone to practice law.  He joined an older brother named Earl and followed the death of an infant brother named Wayne.  […]