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Bunkerville, Nevada was an early Mormon settlement dedicated to raising cotton. Direct ancestor Ithamer Thomas Sprague agreed to go there to colonize. Bunkerville was the only successful early settlement to live The United Order. When Ithamer knew that he was going to this part of the country, not far from present-day St. George, Utah in […]
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William Thorn was born in England. He heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized. He emigrated to America and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah where he met our direct ancestor Maria Susannah Merrick. Maria had come from England as well, and brought with her […]
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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 the entrance to the Pleasant Green Cemetery on top of a hill in what is today Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah. This cemetery was an early Utah cemetery and is relatively small and modest. It sits on a hill out of view from the roads below. Today, the property which surrounds it is […]
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This is the Henry Maiben home in Provo, Utah County, Utah. This photograph was taken about 1875.
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This is the family of James Newberry Morris and Harriette Louisa Elliott. The portrait was taken about 1897 in Utah.
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This is the George Morris home in the Seventeenth Ward of Salt Lake City, Utah. George was born in England in 1817 and died in Utah in 1897. He was the father of twenty-three children from three wives. The first, Jane Higgonbotham died before leaving England for America. She had one daughter named Jane. With […]
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The history of the Cottonwood Metals Mining Company was researched and compiled in 2005. It tells the story of the efforts of direct ancestors Henry Reynolds Watrous, his sons and grandson to develop what they hoped would be a promising mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was incorporated […]
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This portrait was taken in Utah upon the marriage of direct ancestors John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris. They became the parents of seven children. The sixth child, Mary Maria Jenkins married Everest Elliott Watrous when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. They are also direct ancestors.