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This wonderful keepsake photograph is of Everest Raymond Watrous on the left with a friend.  Ray was the youngest of three sons born in 1909 to his parents Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of  Salt Lake City, Utah.  Ray appears to be about eight or nine in this […]

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This keepsake photograph shows direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous, center, and two friends.  This photograph was taken about 1930 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Everest Raymond’s parents were Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.  He was the youngest of three sons born to his parents.  He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah . […]

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This keepsake photograph of Mervin Reynolds and Wayne Elliott Watrous was taken in front of the family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon.  Their father Everest Elliott Watrous and mother Mary Maria Jenkins, and other family members worked at mining in the canyon and lived there until the children were ready to go to school. After […]

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This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous.  Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.   We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915.  Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest […]

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This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.  We believe that behind them is one of three cabins which Everest, his father and his brother Earl built in the area which is today The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City.  In one of these cabins, our […]

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This wonderful portrait was taken about 1908.  On the left is Mervin and on the right is his younger brother Wayne.  They added a third brother to their family in 1909 who is Everest Raymond Watrous, our direct ancestor.  These three boys are the children of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.

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This keepsake photograph is of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.  They were married in 1902 when he was nineteen and she sixteen.  This photograph was most likely taken in about 1915 in either Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah.

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This keepsake photograph was taken at the family’s cabin near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Everest Raymond was the youngest son of three born to his parents Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.

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Everest Elliott Watrous married Mary Maria Jenkins in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902.  Everest was nineteen and Mary sixteen.  This portrait was taken upon their marriage. They became the parents of three sons who were Mervin, Wayne and Raymond.   The youngest, Everest Raymond is our direct ancestor.

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When we first visited the Pleasant Green Cemetery in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, we found our ancestor James Jenkins resting under this handmade grave stone.  We assume that it was made by one of his children upon his death in 1904.  It was cast from ordinary cement and carved.  Dark stain […]