Mrs. Ernest Watrous, born Alice Rose Greene, born Providence RI, died 1922, Los Angeles CA. Her baby is George Foster Watrous, youngest of her six Watrous children. Taken in New London, Connecticut, about 1901.
People in photo include: Alice Rose (Greene) Watrous
Ernest Watrous died not long after this photograph. A few years later, his widow married John Foster Tucker, an old family friend and minister of the Watrous's Unitarian Church in New London, Connecticut. Rev. Tucker moved his new wife and her five Watrous sons to Los Angeles. There they had their daughters, Margaret Williams Tucker (1906) and Alice Joan Tucker (1911).
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
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