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This is the death certificate for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous.  He died at the Salt Lake County Hospital which was located at 2100 South and State Street in Salt Lake City, Utah.  At one time, the hospital was considered to be centrally located and served all of the Salt Lake Valley.  It has since […]

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Photographers of the past developed quite a talent for portraiture.  This portrait is of Harriett Bailey who was born in England in 1854 and came to America as a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints.  In Salt Lake City, in 1869, she married another convert named James Bailey McGregor.  He was from […]

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To our surprise, after the stories and memories of two generations, we discovered that direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous had a second wife.  After his divorce from his first wife and direct ancestor Glendora in 1892, he married a much younger Clara Harriett McGregor.  They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1893, which […]

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There is no face for ancestor Edith Glendora.  We have faces for some brothers but only one for her sisters,  the face of her mother but not the face of her father. So, we will have to imagine her face. Edith Glendora Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio near the town of […]

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Henry Reynolds Watrous was born in 1846 in the small, farming town of Terre Haute in Henderson  County, Illinois.  This town is near LaHarpe and quite close to Nauvoo.  Henry was the oldest child and only son born to his parents Jerome Timothy Watrous and Mary June Reynolds. However he had a half-sister named Caroline […]