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posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
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In the early days of our country, most of the population was in New England. The people of these states, including Connecticut were faithful record keepers. Their handwritten records have been transcribed and preserved from many sources and repositories. These records give to us the family of ancestor Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. They […]
posted by Sandy on I Found, Stories Within Stories
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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, […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Rufus Richardson was born in Vermont to Jesse Richardson and Anna Jones. He was the youngest child of four born to his parents. He migrated with his family from Vermont to Connecticut to Ohio along with many others, including our direct ancestor Timothy Watrous and his family. They settled in Muskingum County, in Monroe Township […]
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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 […]