Posts Tagged ‘Jenkins’
This photograph came from the collection of Julie Martin. This couple is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families and was among other portraits taken in Utah. It appears to be a marriage portrait. Do you know this couple?
We can only guess when this keepsake photograph was taken. We know that it is a photograph of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous in front of a cabin he built near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Nearby was the mine that consumed so much of Everest’s […]
This wonderful keepsake portrait was taken about 1912. It is Everest Raymond Watrous, direct ancestor and youngest son of Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins. It is in the possession of his daughter Carolyn in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This keepsake photographs is of Mervin Reynolds Watrous and his brother Wayne Elliott Watrous. They are the oldest of three sons born to Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins. The third son and youngest child of these parents is direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous who married Mildred Bates.
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 […]
This is an excerpt from a much larger article about ancestor Anthony Sadowski. Our personal files contain it in its entirety. This ancestral line of Thomas Watrous intercepts the line which includes the Vansant Family. Anthony, sometimes written as Antoni, married Mary Bird. Their daughter Sophia married William Darling. Their son Robert Darling married Mary […]
This is one of the ancestral lines of Thomas Watrous and thus his children and grandchildren. Beginning with the oldest ancestor mentioned in this summary, we descend as follows: Harman Gerretszen Van Sandt, son of Gerret Stoffelse Van Sandt. Harman married Elizabeth Brauwers Cathrina, daughter of Harman and Elizabeth Van Sandt married Daniel Severns Elizabeth, […]
These portraits are sisters Mary Maria and Ada Rosella Jenkins. They are the daughters of John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris. Since our direct ancestor, Mary, married Everest Elliott Watrous at the age of sixteen in 1902, we estimate that these portraits were taken about the same time. They were taken in Salt Lake City, […]