Posts Tagged ‘utah’
This keepsake photograph shows the choir of the Monroe Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints in 1883. Monroe is a small town just beyond Richfield, Utah. Both towns are in Sevier County. The man in front on the right is the choir director. He is ancestor Nephi James Bates 1848-1921. He was […]
This is the funeral program for Flora Louise Maiben Bates who was born in 1871 and died in 1960. Her funeral took place in her home town of Richfield, Sevier County, Utah and was attended by many members of her family. Following the funeral, she was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery next to her […]
This is the entrance to the Richfield City Cemetery in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. It is the burial place of Nephi James Bates 1875-1958 and his wife Flora Louise Maiben 1871-1960. Also buried in the cemetery is their son Henry James Bates 1908-1985 and a daughter Lucile Bates Ford 1914-1990.
This keepsake photograph is of Flora Louise Maiben Bates, daughter of Henry Maiben and Flora Louisa Maddison and wife of Nephi James Bates (1875). Flora is the mother of seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood and have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken about 1959. Flora died in 1960 and […]
These are the children of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. This keepsake photograph was taken about 1918. Left to right in the front row are Alta, Lucile and Mildred. In the back row are Reta, Henry and Stella. A seventh child, Irene died in 1903. This photograph was taken in Richfield, Sevier County, […]
This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous. Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915. Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest […]
This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We believe that behind them is one of three cabins which Everest, his father and his brother Earl built in the area which is today The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. In one of these cabins, our […]
This photograph was taken on the occasion of the funeral of Everest Elliott Watrous. Everest was born in Iowa and died in Utah. He is buried in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. He and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins were the parents of three sons. All were present for the […]
John Bray Maiben was the seventh child of eleven born to his parents William Maiben and Catherine Williams Cater. He, along with his brother Henry heard the message of the Restored Gospel from missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in their native England and were baptized. They came to America and became […]