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This mystery keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  He is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.

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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?

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This photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  She is most likely a descendant or connected family member to George Morris 1817-1897 and/or Hannah Maria Newberry  1823-1893.   This portrait was taken in Utah.

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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, […]

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This photograph includes children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris.  It was taken in Pleasant Green which is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah.

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Mary Smith was born in New York to Samuel Smith and Jane Stephens. In 1811 she married direct ancestor James Newberry.  They heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized along with many members of both families.  They migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois where they gathered with […]

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This is the entrance to the Pleasant Green Cemetery on top of a hill in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah.  This cemetery was an early Utah cemetery and is relatively small and modest.  It sits on a hill out of view from the roads below.  Today, the property which surrounds it is […]

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This is the family of James Newberry Morris and Harriette Louisa Elliott.   The portrait was taken about 1897 in Utah.

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These are the children of James Newberry Morris.  There were nine surviving children born to his wife Harriette Elliot and one from his marriage to Betsy Scholes.  James was the brother of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins.  This page is taken from The Families of James Newberry Morris.

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This is the family of George Morris and wife Hannah Maria Newberry.  Our direct ancestor is Rosella Newberry Morris who is child number three.  She married Lucius Peck and later John Jenkins.