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Caroline Malone Watrous was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio in 1842 to Jerome Timothy Watrous and his wife Olivia Burke Muse. Olivia traces her ancestry through the Daughters of the American Revolution to several ancestors who fought and died in that war. In 1843, she migrated with her husband and many others from Ohio […]
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Samuel Watrous was born in Connecticut to Timothy Watrous and his first wife Mabel Rowley. About 1816, Mabel Rowley Watrous died, leaving two sons. They were Samuel and William. After the death of Mabel, Samuel’s father Timothy married their deceased mother’s sister Mary. She was known as Polly. Together with many other families, Timothy, Mary, […]
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In the 1800s and early 1900s it was customary for a new bride to have calling cards. Usually she had them printed upon her marriage. She handed them to friends and family and used them in other ways. This is the calling card which Mary Maria Jenkins had printed upon her marriage to direct ancestor […]
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This is a photograph from the collection of Mary Emma, granddaughter of Ophelia Pancake and William McVey. It was taken in front of their home in Fresno California about 1922. Ophelia died in 1923 and her husband William in 1933. Ophelia is the oldest daughter of direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine […]
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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.
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Ephraim Newberry Morris was born to George Morris and Hannah Maria Newberry in 1864. He was twelve of twelve children born to his parents. His sister Rosella Newberry Morris, born third in the family, is our direct ancestor. She married John Jenkins. Their daughter Mary Maria married Everest Elliott Watrous. In 1885, he married Harriett […]
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Photographers of the past developed quite a talent for portraiture. This portrait is of Harriett Bailey who was born in England in 1854 and came to America as a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. In Salt Lake City, in 1869, she married another convert named James Bailey McGregor. He was from […]
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To our surprise, after the stories and memories of two generations, we discovered that direct ancestor Henry Reynolds Watrous had a second wife. After his divorce from his first wife and direct ancestor Glendora in 1892, he married a much younger Clara Harriett McGregor. They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1893, which […]
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This book was provided by Sue Simonich who is a descendant of James Newberry. She puts forth the theory that the Newberry’s were of Native American origin. Other Newberry researchers and descendants disagree as noted in the comments following this entry. I am grateful for the extensive research and comments which have been provided about […]