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When all was said and done, we found much information about our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous, his wife Mary June Reynolds and their children Henry, Sarah Rebecca and adopted daughter Mary Ellen Byrnes. The one piece of their later life migration that has eluded us in a reference in Jerome’s obituary to a few years […]
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This is the original grave stone for Jerome Timothy Watrous who was born in 1818 in Ohio and died in 1904 in Illinois. It was originally placed in a straight row with similar stones for his wife Mary June Reynolds Watrous and little daughter Lydia Viola who died at the age of four. We we […]
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Among the inspiring stories surrounding our ancestors is the story of John Painter Reynolds. He was the youngest child of eleven born to his parents Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. He came to Illinois from his birthplace in Pennsylvania in 1836. His father Henry bought a farm two miles north of LaHarpe. After the death […]
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This keepsake photograph is of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. They were married in 1902 when he was nineteen and she sixteen. This photograph was most likely taken in about 1915 in either Salt Lake City or Park City, Utah.
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This keepsake photograph was taken in 1958 at the home of Everest Elliott Watrous and Susan Shirts Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. The occasion was Everest’s funeral. These are his three sons. Left to right they are Everest Raymond 1909, Wayne Elliott 1905 and Mervin Reynolds 1903. All have posterity to the present day.
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This keepsake photograph was taken at the family’s cabin near the present-day Spruces Campground in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Everest Raymond was the youngest son of three born to his parents Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.
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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, […]
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Sarah Rebecca Watrous married Clarence Roland Gittings in St. Louis, Missouri when she was forty-three years of age. It was the first marriage for her and the second for him. They built a home on land where her childhood home had once stood in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. […]
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This is a photograph of Everest Elliott Watrous and his second wife, Susan Irvine Shirts. Everest had been a widower since his wife’s death in 1929 and boarded in the home that Susan owned. In 1945 they married and remained in her home until near Everest’s death in 1958 when he went to live with […]