Backus Family History
A Genealogical History of the Backus Family and it's Branches |
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1. | Sophia Glover was born on 8 May 1843 in Homer, Cortland, New York; died on 30 Apr 1914 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas; was buried on 3 May 1914 in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Sophia married Capt. Charles Leach Watrous on 25 Dec 1865 in Homer, Cortland, New York. Charles (son of Joseph Watrous and Lydia Emerson Leach) was born on 13 Jan 1837 in Freetown, Cortland, New York; died on 27 May 1916 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa; was buried on 29 May 1916 in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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2. | Marion Isabel Watrous ![]() Marion married Dr. James Rowland Angell on 18 Dec 1894 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. James was born on 8 May 1869 in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont; died on 4 Mar 1949 in Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut; was buried on 7 Mar 1949 in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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3. | Philip Bernard Watrous ![]() Family/Spouse: Mary M. Maish. Mary was born in Oct 1871 in Iowa; died about 1941 in Iowa; was buried in 1941 in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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5. | Marion Waterhouse Coswell Angell ![]() Marion married William Rockefeller McAlpin on 5 Dec 1926 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. William (son of David Hunter McAlpin, Jr. and Emma Rockefeller) was born on 25 Dec 1901 in New York City, New York, New York; died in Feb 1969 in New York City, New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
6. | Philip Maish Watrous ![]() Family/Spouse: Dorothy Poole. Dorothy was born on 26 Oct 1917 in Pennsylvania; died on 10 Oct 2005 in Bryn Mawr, Delaware, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Gordon Glover Watrous ![]() |
8. | George Maish Watrous ![]() Family/Spouse: Lydabeth Tressler. Lydabeth was born on 7 Mar 1911 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 28 Mar 1988 in Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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9. | Mary R. Watrous ![]() |
10. | Living ![]() |
11. | Mary Chilton Watrous ![]() |