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posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Keepsake Photographs
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This is the family of Nephi James Bates and Flora Louise Maiben. Six of their seven children grew to adulthood, married and had families. All have posterity to the present day. This photograph was taken on the porch steps of Nephi and Flora’s home on Main Street in Richfield, Utah. The children are Henry, Reta […]
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Marion Darling Pancake was the eighth child of thirteen born to his parents Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. He was born in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Utah with his sister Carrie and her husband Albert Conwell before 1880. They are found together in the census in Springville, Utah County, […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken about 1942 in Midvale, Utah. It is of Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire and her two daughters, Theora and June. The coat which Clara is wearing was familiar to all who knew her. It was a heavy coat and very warm. Subsequent photographs of Clara in front of her new […]
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Everest Elliott Watrous married Mary Maria Jenkins in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1902. Everest was nineteen and Mary sixteen. This portrait was taken upon their marriage. They became the parents of three sons who were Mervin, Wayne and Raymond. The youngest, Everest Raymond is our direct ancestor.
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Direct ancestors Justin Gerald and Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire lived in many homes throughout their married lives but never owned one. When this neighborhood of new homes was built in the early 1940s, their youngest son Glenn took the money he and his wife were going to use to buy their first home and gave […]
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When we first visited the Pleasant Green Cemetery in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, we found our ancestor James Jenkins resting under this handmade grave stone. We assume that it was made by one of his children upon his death in 1904. It was cast from ordinary cement and carved. Dark stain […]
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The biographies of Everest Elliott Watrous and his son Everest Raymond Watrous were written by Thomas Watrous. Both tell the tale of this family and their efforts over many years to find the magical mine. Henry Reynolds Watrous is on the left. He was a prominent attorney in the Utah Territories but his heart was […]
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This is direct ancestor George Morris after he came to Utah. It is thought that this portrait was taken in about 1865 when he was forty-eight years of age.
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On the right is Maria Susannah Merrick Maddison Thorne, on the left is her daughter Flora Louisa Maddison Long Maiben and in the back Flora’s daughter Rosina Maria Maiben Jones with her daughter Mary Maiben Jones. Both Maria Susannah and Flora Louisa are direct ancestors.
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Everest Elliott Watrous on the porch of his Salt Lake City home in 1953. This is a home his grandchildren remember. Here, he lived with his second wife Susan Irvine Shirtz Watrous whom the family loved and called Grandma Susie.