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This is one of many keepsake photographs in our collection of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. She was born in Lee County, Iowa in 1848. Her parents, George and Hannah Maria Newberry Morris had been driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois by a mob. Rosella was born just across the Mississippi River […]
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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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In 1878, following his marriage to Edith Glendora Pancake, Henry Reynolds Watrous took his first job as an attorney. It was in the town of Red Oak in Montgomery County, Iowa. He moved to Red Oak with his wife Glendora and his family consisting of his parents Jerome and Mary Watrous and his two sisters […]
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There is no face for ancestor Edith Glendora. We have faces for some brothers but only one for her sisters, the face of her mother but not the face of her father. So, we will have to imagine her face. Edith Glendora Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio near the town of […]
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
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When our relative, a native of Richfield, Utah died . . . her belongings included many photographs of women she had labeled as “my dear Richfield friends”. Only one photograph had a name or any information written on it. It was the woman in the lower left of the last display of photographs. Her photograph […]
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Mary Reynolds was born in Iowa to William Painter Reynolds and Harriett Chenoweth. She was the fifth of six children born to her parents. She was known as Molly. She was the niece of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous and thus the first cousin of ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous. In 1885 she married […]
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This is a keepsake photograph of the mine which was a part of the family of Everest Elliott Watrous, his brother Earl Pancake Watrous, their father Henry Reynolds Watrous and Everest’s children. It was called the Lindell Lode. It was located in the area now known as The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of […]
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This is the Brighton Village Store in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. When this photograph was taken, it was owned and operated by Everest Raymond Watrous and his wife Mildred with lots of support and help from various members of his family. The store was sold in the early 1970s and […]
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These are photographs from the late 1940s of Little Mountain Ski Resort in Emigration Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Everest Raymond Watrous and a friend, Melvin Henshaw, leased the land and built the first hill with night skiing in the west. They played polkas through a loud speaker and hauled everyone back and […]