Ella was born in Marian Township., Lee Co., IL and they later moved to Iowa. She and her sister Emma married the Knapp brothers. She married Arthur Knapp 24 Aug 1879 and her sister Emma married George H Knapp. They all headed out west with George H and Emma to WA state and Ella and Arthur to California. They had one child Winifred Pearl and we wonder if she were adopted as Ella was 41 at her birth. Arthur died of blood poisoning when "Winnie" was only 7-8 years old.
They fully owned their farm and Ella remarried a widower John Eglin, "a well known wholesale meat man" on 21 Aug 1908. He died in 1924 and records show that she signed over a quitclaim deed to one of his sons and then published in the newspaper looking for daily or monthly work. Winnie, newly married, had long before died of tuberculosis - at just 18 years of age.
We last find record of Ella living in Palo Alto with a family, living as an elderly boarder. We have little information on Ella but did find a sweet notation in a newspaper in Colville, Washington that she baked her niece, Joy, a wedding cake and mailed it to Colville from California - must have been a fruit cake!
They fully owned their farm and Ella remarried a widower John Eglin, "a well known wholesale meat man" on 21 Aug 1908. He died in 1924 and records show that she signed over a quitclaim deed to one of his sons and then published in the newspaper looking for daily or monthly work. Winnie, newly married, had long before died of tuberculosis - at just 18 years of age.
We last find record of Ella living in Palo Alto with a family, living as an elderly boarder. We have little information on Ella but did find a sweet notation in a newspaper in Colville, Washington that she baked her niece, Joy, a wedding cake and mailed it to Colville from California - must have been a fruit cake!
Ella was born in Marian Township., Lee Co., IL and they later moved to Iowa. She and her sister Emma married the Knapp brothers. She married Arthur Knapp 24 Aug 1879 and her sister Emma married George H Knapp. They all headed out west with George H and Emma to WA state and Ella and Arthur to California. They had one child Winifred Pearl and we wonder if she were adopted as Ella was 41 at her birth. Arthur died of blood poisoning when "Winnie" was only 7-8 years old.
They fully owned their farm and Ella remarried a widower John Eglin, "a well known wholesale meat man" on 21 Aug 1908. He died in 1924 and records show that she signed over a quitclaim deed to one of his sons and then published in the newspaper looking for daily or monthly work. Winnie, newly married, had long before died of tuberculosis - at just 18 years of age.
We last find record of Ella living in Palo Alto with a family, living as an elderly boarder. We have little information on Ella but did find a sweet notation in a newspaper in Colville, Washington that she baked her niece, Joy, a wedding cake and mailed it to Colville from California - must have been a fruit cake!
They fully owned their farm and Ella remarried a widower John Eglin, "a well known wholesale meat man" on 21 Aug 1908. He died in 1924 and records show that she signed over a quitclaim deed to one of his sons and then published in the newspaper looking for daily or monthly work. Winnie, newly married, had long before died of tuberculosis - at just 18 years of age.
We last find record of Ella living in Palo Alto with a family, living as an elderly boarder. We have little information on Ella but did find a sweet notation in a newspaper in Colville, Washington that she baked her niece, Joy, a wedding cake and mailed it to Colville from California - must have been a fruit cake!
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