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You may think that this is just an ordinary painting. I will tell you why it is not. This painting hung in my husband’s family home for as long as he could remember. It was a pale but beautiful watercolor of a woman’s head. It wasn’t any particular woman, at least not as far as […]
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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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Wilma Watrous was born to Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the niece of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. When her paternal grandmother Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died in 1920, she left several keepsakes to Wilma. One was a print of a famous painting called Madonna of […]
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This is a photograph from the collection of Mary Emma, granddaughter of Ophelia Pancake and William McVey. It was taken in front of their home in Fresno California about 1922. Ophelia died in 1923 and her husband William in 1933. Ophelia is the oldest daughter of direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine […]
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Not much changed in Wellington, Kansas from the first photograph we found in 1890 to this photograph in 1907. By this time, ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous had been in Wellington for twelve years. Her sister’s husband Charles, worked in town. That means that the buildings we see included the place where he had an […]
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This is St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington, Kansas. This photograph was taken in 1910. In 1920 direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died here. For the week prior to her death, she had been under the care of a nurse in the nearby town called Geuda Springs. The medicinal properties of the springs in the […]
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When ancestor Glendora Watrous left Salt Lake City, Utah for Wellington, Kansas it was 1895. Just five years after this photograph was taken. Washington Street, which is the main street into downtown Wellington is today lined with homes and trees. The street is paved and has curbs and gutters. Glendora lived with her sister Camilla […]
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Ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous, mother of Everest Elliott Watrous and grandmother of Everest Raymond Watrous died in Geuda Springs, Kansas in the same year that this photograph was taken. She had traveled from nearby Wellington to Geuda Springs for medical care in the hopes that her condition might be improved. In October of 1920 […]
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In 1895, five years after this photograph was taken, our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous boarded a train in Salt Lake City for Wellington, Kansas. There, she lived with her sister Camilla Pancake Elliott whose husband Charles was a prominent attorney in town. She left behind her two sons, Earl and Everest who is our […]
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This archived photograph of a Wellington, Kansas ambulance was taken in 1920. That was the same year that ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous was transported by ambulance from the Sanitarium at Geuda Springs where she had been trying to get well, to St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington where she died. The road from Wellington […]