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Lydia is such a pretty name. In fact we have a granddaughter named Lydia. The same age as Lydia Viola was when she died of cholera at the age of four. Lydia was the oldest child of Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous. She was born in the tiny farming community of Terre Haute […]
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Mary June Reynolds was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Reynolds and Sarah Painter. She was the seventh of eleven children born to her parents. Her father Henry was a Quaker. He baptized his daughter Mary June. Her mother was an Episcopalian. When she was still young, her parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Illinois and settled […]
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You may think that this is just an ordinary painting. I will tell you why it is not. This painting hung in my husband’s family home for as long as he could remember. It was a pale but beautiful watercolor of a woman’s head. It wasn’t any particular woman, at least not as far as […]
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During our search for ancestral faces, we received a copy of this photograph which was taken in the 1800s. We hoped it was a photograph of ancestors Jerome and Mary Watrous from Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. However, we have not been able to identify those in the photograph. Having never seen the face […]
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During our quest to find ancestral faces in the counties of Henderson and Hancock in Illinois, we received this copy of a photograph. We cannot match it to the face of our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous 1818-1904. It is on file at the Historical Society in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois. I really don’t like faces […]
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The story of little Raymond Baird, aka Little Sousa is very interesting. In his reminiscences, Everest Raymond Watrous recalled when his mother, Mary Maria Jenkins Watrous worked for Little Sousa. That statement prompted us to research Little Sousa. Raymond Baird is listed in the census of Salt Lake City, living with his mother and a […]
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This is the obituary for direct ancestor Henry Reynolds which was carried in the Nauvoo Independent as a reprint in 1973. Henry married Sarah Painter. They became the parents of direct ancestor Mary June Reynolds who married Jerome Timothy Watrous. A summary of the life of Henry Reynolds is on this site.
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In the early days of our country, most of the population was in New England. The people of these states, including Connecticut were faithful record keepers. Their handwritten records have been transcribed and preserved from many sources and repositories. These records give to us the family of ancestor Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. They […]
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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 […]