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Clarence Roland Gittings was born in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois to James Gittings and Susannah Thompson.   He was the oldest of three children born to his parents.  His father had been married once before he married Charles’ mother.  His parents moved from Ohio to LaHarpe in 1836.  When Clarence grew to adulthood he purchased 200 […]

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John Ulrich Giesy was born in Ohio to William Giesy and his wife Annie.  At the age of two he is found with his parents in Kansas and at some point, he came to Utah with his parents.  His father set up an insurance business and John became a physician.  They listed their office spaces […]

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Juliet Pancake was born in Ohio to Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling.  She was the twelfth of thirteen children born to her parents.  She was just fifteen when her parents left Illinois for Utah.  In 1892, Juliet married Ralph Guthrie.  They settled down in Utah where they lived their lives.  Juliet and Ralph became […]

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Ralph Guthrie was born in Ohio and died in Utah.  He married Juliet Pancake in Salt Lake City in 1892.  Juliet and our direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous were sisters.  When Ralph and Juliet were first married, he was listed as a stockbroker.  In 1901, Ralph and Juliet became the parents of a son […]

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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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Caroline Malone Watrous was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio in 1842 to Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Olivia Burke Muse.  Olivia traces her ancestry through the Daughters of the American Revolution to several ancestors who fought and died in that war. In 1843, she migrated with her husband and many others from Ohio […]

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Samuel Watrous was born in Connecticut to Timothy Watrous and his first wife Mabel Rowley.  About 1816, Mabel Rowley Watrous died, leaving two sons.  They were Samuel and William.  After the death of Mabel, Samuel’s father Timothy married their deceased mother’s sister Mary.  She was known as Polly.  Together with many other families, Timothy, Mary, […]

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This is Mohawk Village in Coshocton County, Ohio as of 2005.  It is in this place that we find the site of the original Mohawk Methodist Church and its churchyard burial ground.  This cemetery is the final resting place of direct ancestor William Pancake, his wife Mary Crawford and several of their descendants.

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William Pancake was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Johann George Pfannekuchen and his wife Anna.  He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents. His father changed his name to George Pancake  and went by that surname from the late 1700s forward.  Direct ancestor William was always known by the […]

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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 […]