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posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
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Jesse Rowley was born in Connecticut to Elnathan Rowley and Lydia Wells. He was the eighth child born to his parents. The seventh child died at birth and had been named Jesse. When our ancestor was born, his parents used the same name for him. About 1774, Jesse and Bathsheba married. They became the parents […]
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Mabel Rowley was born in Connecticut in 1787 to Jesse Rowley and his wife Bathsheba. She was the youngest of five children. We know nothing of her childhood. Sometime before 1807, when her first son was born, she married Timothy Watrous. Their first son, William, was born in 1807 in Connecticut. Their second son Samuel […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]
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This wonderful photograph was in the collection of Mr. Painter in Terre Haute, Illinois. He made a copy for us which is shown here. Our ancestors Jerome Timothy and Mary June Reynolds Watrous adopted a “soldier’s orphan” in about 1870. Her name was Mary Ellen Byrnes. She is shown here in the checkered dress. The […]
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Mary Ellen Byrnes was born in 1860 to her parents Michael Byrnes and a mother whose name we do not know. She was born in New York. At the age of ten, she came to Illinois on the Orphan Train. She was called a “soldier’s orphan”. She was adopted by our direct ancestors Jerome Timothy […]
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This keepsake photograph is of Earl Pancake Watrous and his brother Everest Elliott Watrous. Behind Earl on the left is his wife Florence Nelson and behind Everest is his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We are not certain when it was taken but we think it was before 1915. Correspondence exists between our direct ancestor Everest […]
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This keepsake photograph shows Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins. We believe that behind them is one of three cabins which Everest, his father and his brother Earl built in the area which is today The Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. In one of these cabins, our […]
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This photograph was taken on the occasion of the funeral of Everest Elliott Watrous. Everest was born in Iowa and died in Utah. He is buried in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. He and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins were the parents of three sons. All were present for the […]
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This wonderful portrait was taken about 1908. On the left is Mervin and on the right is his younger brother Wayne. They added a third brother to their family in 1909 who is Everest Raymond Watrous, our direct ancestor. These three boys are the children of Everest Elliott Watrous and his wife Mary Maria Jenkins.