Isabella Easton

Personal and Family Information

Isabella was born on 22 OCT 1900 in East Pleam, Bannoch Burn, Scotland, the daughter of David Easton and Isabella Hotchkiss Ferguson.

She died on 22 NOV 2000. The place is not known.

Her husband was Bryan Edwin Cole, who she married on 18 NOV 1933 in Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas. Their two known children were Charles Wayne (c1935-?) and Kathleen Anne (1937-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: http://www.interment.net/data/us/ks/osage/burl/burlingame_c.htm

!Notes: Still alive in 1993. She helped to support her mother, and younger brothers and sisters, as her father died when she was 18. She also completed the raising of her children by herself, after her husband died in a work accident in 1944.

!Letter: [Written by Isabella to a relative, the first page with the addressee was lost] --

!P: In Scotland we had lived in these towns that I know of Larbert, Pleans, and Garibaldi.

!P: My father David Easton was a coal miner. Thinking to try life abroad he set sail on the Cunard Liner Athena from Glascow Scotland and went to Canada in 1910. He had a sister there whom he stayed with a little while. He then decided to come to America, so he came to Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas where my mother's sister Aunt Kirsten and her family lived. Uncle Neal [her husband] Hotchkiss operated coal mines here so my father decided to stay here. He sent for his family and on March 11th 1911 my mother and her six children Elizabeth, Janet, George, Isabella, David and Christina boarded the Cunard Liner Columbia at Glascow and sailed for the U.S.A. A few days out on the ocean the ship cut through ice for two days and we seen huge icebergs high and long above the ocean water. We landed at Staten Island where we were held for quaranteen as all people are, or were at that time.

!P: We boarded a train for the three day ride to Burlingame Kansas. We stayed in Uncle Neals and Aunt Kirstens home till we got a home of our own furnished. Aunt Kirstens real name is Christina. My mothers real name is Isabella but she was called of all things "Easy". I don't know why either Kirsten or Easy was used instead of their real names.

!P: My father and brother George worked in the coal mines. Elizabeth and Janet worked at the Chase Hotel by the Sante Fe Depot. Many trains used to run on this railroad line, so the hotel fed many train crews. After a few years Elizabeth and Janet went to Topeka Kansas to work, then on to Kansas City Missouri where I joined them in 1916.

!P: Three more children joined the family in Burlingame Thomas, Jeanie and Alexander. They still live here.

!P: This is not much, not very interesting, but neither do we have anything in closets.

!P: I will send you anything more if I get anything. I really do not know of any Eastons' but father's sister Maggie in Canada. She will probably have passed on, but if my cousin Hector Ferguson can find out about any of the Eastons I'll send it to you. ------------------- Your letter to me addressed Isabella Easton went to Aunt Lorena Easton. --