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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so.  We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him.   We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen.  Emma and Pauline were […]

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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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Rosella Ann Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William and Maria Gallagher Pancake.  She was the oldest child and daughter.  She had two sisters, Mary Lucinda and Cora.  Her little brother Oliver died at the age of two.  He was the third child and only son of her parents.  In 1865, […]

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This Methodist church was built in 1892 in the little town of Terre Haute in Henderson County Illinois.  There, in the next year, Mary June Reynolds Watrous was remembered upon her death.  Her husband Jerome Timothy Watrous also came to this little church in a coffin to be remembered as one of the pioneers of […]