Isabelle Menown Lewalling was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 18 March 1894 to Frank Menown and Essie Menown, cousins of an unknown degree as of 2013 research.
*(per 2014 research, Isabelle's father Francis "Frank" Menown, and her maternal grandfather Hugh Menown were direct cousins.)
Isabelle's father Frank , grandfather Hugh and grand uncle James were in the spice, coffee, and tea business in the Kansas City area. The families were quite well off financially. Frank held a patent for roasting coffee beans.
Isabelle's mother Essie and aunt Mary both attended college at Lindenwood.
Isabelle would be the 7th child born to Frank and Essie Menown. Two of her brothers would pass in early childhood, Hugh Prince Roy Menown 1880-1881, and Frank Menown Jr. 1885-1886. Essie Menown Jr. 1881-1962, Ruby Menown 1883-1923, Hugh Menown 1887-1942, and Frank Menown 1891-1980, would all survive her.
Sadly, her father would pass when Isabelle was only 4 years old. Her mother, Essie, young and wealthy, would marry a man 20 years her junior, Mathew Shepard, before a year had passed for Frank's death. Their divorce was long and well publicized in the society columns of the local newspapers of the day.
Essie would marry William Lilley in 1913. She is buried near her daughter Isabelle.
Isabelle Menown and William Everett Lewalling were married 18 May 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. She had her first baby girl 17 Nov 1917, Helen Isabelle Lewalling. The second daughter was born 15 Feb 1919 and named Julia Esther Lewalling. Tragically, the young mother Isabelle would be dead in October of 1919. The 1920 census lists a widowed William with two little girls, Helen & Julia.
While it is unclear from the records how she died, the speculation is she was mentally impaired and may have done something to cause her own death.
William Everett Lewalling would marry the school teacher from Tucumcari, Mary Ella Salmon, and the young family would move to California. The youngest child was re-named Evelyn Louise, and the girls were never told about their birth mother. It would be many decades later after the girls were grown and married with children of their own before they learned the truth. Mary Salmon is listed as mother on the girls' marriage certificates, she was the only mother they knew.
*(per 2014 research, Isabelle's father Francis "Frank" Menown, and her maternal grandfather Hugh Menown were direct cousins.)
Isabelle's father Frank , grandfather Hugh and grand uncle James were in the spice, coffee, and tea business in the Kansas City area. The families were quite well off financially. Frank held a patent for roasting coffee beans.
Isabelle's mother Essie and aunt Mary both attended college at Lindenwood.
Isabelle would be the 7th child born to Frank and Essie Menown. Two of her brothers would pass in early childhood, Hugh Prince Roy Menown 1880-1881, and Frank Menown Jr. 1885-1886. Essie Menown Jr. 1881-1962, Ruby Menown 1883-1923, Hugh Menown 1887-1942, and Frank Menown 1891-1980, would all survive her.
Sadly, her father would pass when Isabelle was only 4 years old. Her mother, Essie, young and wealthy, would marry a man 20 years her junior, Mathew Shepard, before a year had passed for Frank's death. Their divorce was long and well publicized in the society columns of the local newspapers of the day.
Essie would marry William Lilley in 1913. She is buried near her daughter Isabelle.
Isabelle Menown and William Everett Lewalling were married 18 May 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. She had her first baby girl 17 Nov 1917, Helen Isabelle Lewalling. The second daughter was born 15 Feb 1919 and named Julia Esther Lewalling. Tragically, the young mother Isabelle would be dead in October of 1919. The 1920 census lists a widowed William with two little girls, Helen & Julia.
While it is unclear from the records how she died, the speculation is she was mentally impaired and may have done something to cause her own death.
William Everett Lewalling would marry the school teacher from Tucumcari, Mary Ella Salmon, and the young family would move to California. The youngest child was re-named Evelyn Louise, and the girls were never told about their birth mother. It would be many decades later after the girls were grown and married with children of their own before they learned the truth. Mary Salmon is listed as mother on the girls' marriage certificates, she was the only mother they knew.
Isabelle Menown Lewalling was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 18 March 1894 to Frank Menown and Essie Menown, cousins of an unknown degree as of 2013 research.
*(per 2014 research, Isabelle's father Francis "Frank" Menown, and her maternal grandfather Hugh Menown were direct cousins.)
Isabelle's father Frank , grandfather Hugh and grand uncle James were in the spice, coffee, and tea business in the Kansas City area. The families were quite well off financially. Frank held a patent for roasting coffee beans.
Isabelle's mother Essie and aunt Mary both attended college at Lindenwood.
Isabelle would be the 7th child born to Frank and Essie Menown. Two of her brothers would pass in early childhood, Hugh Prince Roy Menown 1880-1881, and Frank Menown Jr. 1885-1886. Essie Menown Jr. 1881-1962, Ruby Menown 1883-1923, Hugh Menown 1887-1942, and Frank Menown 1891-1980, would all survive her.
Sadly, her father would pass when Isabelle was only 4 years old. Her mother, Essie, young and wealthy, would marry a man 20 years her junior, Mathew Shepard, before a year had passed for Frank's death. Their divorce was long and well publicized in the society columns of the local newspapers of the day.
Essie would marry William Lilley in 1913. She is buried near her daughter Isabelle.
Isabelle Menown and William Everett Lewalling were married 18 May 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. She had her first baby girl 17 Nov 1917, Helen Isabelle Lewalling. The second daughter was born 15 Feb 1919 and named Julia Esther Lewalling. Tragically, the young mother Isabelle would be dead in October of 1919. The 1920 census lists a widowed William with two little girls, Helen & Julia.
While it is unclear from the records how she died, the speculation is she was mentally impaired and may have done something to cause her own death.
William Everett Lewalling would marry the school teacher from Tucumcari, Mary Ella Salmon, and the young family would move to California. The youngest child was re-named Evelyn Louise, and the girls were never told about their birth mother. It would be many decades later after the girls were grown and married with children of their own before they learned the truth. Mary Salmon is listed as mother on the girls' marriage certificates, she was the only mother they knew.
*(per 2014 research, Isabelle's father Francis "Frank" Menown, and her maternal grandfather Hugh Menown were direct cousins.)
Isabelle's father Frank , grandfather Hugh and grand uncle James were in the spice, coffee, and tea business in the Kansas City area. The families were quite well off financially. Frank held a patent for roasting coffee beans.
Isabelle's mother Essie and aunt Mary both attended college at Lindenwood.
Isabelle would be the 7th child born to Frank and Essie Menown. Two of her brothers would pass in early childhood, Hugh Prince Roy Menown 1880-1881, and Frank Menown Jr. 1885-1886. Essie Menown Jr. 1881-1962, Ruby Menown 1883-1923, Hugh Menown 1887-1942, and Frank Menown 1891-1980, would all survive her.
Sadly, her father would pass when Isabelle was only 4 years old. Her mother, Essie, young and wealthy, would marry a man 20 years her junior, Mathew Shepard, before a year had passed for Frank's death. Their divorce was long and well publicized in the society columns of the local newspapers of the day.
Essie would marry William Lilley in 1913. She is buried near her daughter Isabelle.
Isabelle Menown and William Everett Lewalling were married 18 May 1916 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. She had her first baby girl 17 Nov 1917, Helen Isabelle Lewalling. The second daughter was born 15 Feb 1919 and named Julia Esther Lewalling. Tragically, the young mother Isabelle would be dead in October of 1919. The 1920 census lists a widowed William with two little girls, Helen & Julia.
While it is unclear from the records how she died, the speculation is she was mentally impaired and may have done something to cause her own death.
William Everett Lewalling would marry the school teacher from Tucumcari, Mary Ella Salmon, and the young family would move to California. The youngest child was re-named Evelyn Louise, and the girls were never told about their birth mother. It would be many decades later after the girls were grown and married with children of their own before they learned the truth. Mary Salmon is listed as mother on the girls' marriage certificates, she was the only mother they knew.
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