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This is the death certificate for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous.  It was issued by the State of Utah and obtained from its records.  There are several points of interest on the certificate.  Henry’s son Earl Pancake Watrous was the informant.  He indicated that his father was a widower and listed his wife Glendora, who […]

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This keepsake photographs is of Mervin Reynolds Watrous and his brother Wayne Elliott Watrous.  They are the oldest of three sons born to Everest Elliott Watrous and Mary Maria Jenkins.  The third son and youngest child of these parents is direct ancestor Everest Raymond Watrous who married Mildred Bates.

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Clarence Roland Gittings was born in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois to James Gittings and Susannah Thompson.   He was the oldest of three children born to his parents.  His father had been married once before he married Charles’ mother.  His parents moved from Ohio to LaHarpe in 1836.  When Clarence grew to adulthood he purchased 200 […]

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This is an excerpt from a much larger article about ancestor Anthony Sadowski.  Our personal files contain it in its entirety.  This ancestral line of Thomas Watrous intercepts the line which includes the Vansant Family.   Anthony, sometimes written as Antoni, married Mary Bird.  Their daughter Sophia married William Darling.  Their son Robert Darling married Mary […]

The Vansant Family

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This is one of the ancestral lines of Thomas Watrous and thus his children and grandchildren.  Beginning with the oldest ancestor mentioned in this summary, we descend as follows: Harman Gerretszen Van Sandt, son of Gerret Stoffelse Van Sandt.  Harman married Elizabeth Brauwers Cathrina, daughter of Harman and Elizabeth Van Sandt married Daniel Severns Elizabeth, […]

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John Ulrich Giesy was born in Ohio to William Giesy and his wife Annie.  At the age of two he is found with his parents in Kansas and at some point, he came to Utah with his parents.  His father set up an insurance business and John became a physician.  They listed their office spaces […]

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These portraits are sisters Mary Maria and Ada Rosella Jenkins.  They are the daughters of John Jenkins and Rosella Newberry Morris.  Since our direct ancestor, Mary, married Everest Elliott Watrous at the age of sixteen in 1902, we estimate that these portraits were taken about the same time. They were taken in Salt Lake City, […]

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Hartson Jerome Fitzgerald was born in 1860 in Missouri.  In 1885 he married Mary Watrous Reynolds.  Mary was the daughter of William Reynolds, who was brother of our direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds Watrous.  Thus, Mary Reynolds Fitzgerald was the niece of Mary June Reynolds Watrous.  It is not known why the younger Mary had […]

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Juliet Pancake was born in Ohio to Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling.  She was the twelfth of thirteen children born to her parents.  She was just fifteen when her parents left Illinois for Utah.  In 1892, Juliet married Ralph Guthrie.  They settled down in Utah where they lived their lives.  Juliet and Ralph became […]

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Ralph Guthrie was born in Ohio and died in Utah.  He married Juliet Pancake in Salt Lake City in 1892.  Juliet and our direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous were sisters.  When Ralph and Juliet were first married, he was listed as a stockbroker.  In 1901, Ralph and Juliet became the parents of a son […]