Name Info

Myrtle Orilla Olson ?1895-1959

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09119118
Gender.........female
Status.........deceased
Age............64y 0m 0d
Last-Marital...married
Fam-Group......SEARLS
Fam-ID.........SEARLS
Citizenship....US born

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......6
#Events........1
#Images:.......0
#Comments......1
#Siblings......0
#Children......1

Person-Type....S
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........mother
Spouse?........wife
Sibling?.......sister
Child?.........daughter
Twin...........no
Adopted?.......

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Burial.........Greenwood Cemetery lot 74 block 4 grave 4

Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: Evan Olson, male, #M:1
  2. Parent: Elizabeth Johnson, female, #M:1

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1917-06-01 Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota
  2. Spouse: Roscoe Jerome SEARLS, male, born:1893-08-17 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1966-03-21 (72y 7m 4d) Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota, Dad:Charles Ambrose SEARLS, Mom:Lenora Augusta Sargent, #SrcDocs:10
  3. ..Child: Ronald Earl SEARLS, male, born:1918-04-03 Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota, died:1994-12-01 (76y 7m 28d) Auburn, Placer county, California, Dad:Roscoe Jerome SEARLS, Mom:Myrtle Orilla Olson, #SrcDocs:5

Events
Birth
: ?1895
Married
: 1917-06-01, Age:22y 5m 0d, Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota, Role:bride
Death
: 1959-01, Age:64y 0m 0d, Kingman, Mohave county, Arizona, automobile accident, Myrtle died from injuries received in an automobile accident. She and Roscoe were returning to South Dakota after visiting their siblings, Edgar and Lillie, in Redlands (San Bernadino) California.
Burial
: ?, Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota, Greenwood Cemetery, lot 74 block 4 grave 4

Places In
Kingman, Mohave county, Arizona
Brookings, Brookings county, South Dakota

General

Myrtle's sister Lillie married Roscoe's brother Edgar. Thus, Myrtle was a sister of her sister-in-law Lillie.


Sources
Brookings South Dakota Greenwood Cemetery records
Letters from Shari Adair, Nashville Tennessee, 1987
Letters from Shari Adair, Nashville Tennessee, 1993
Letters from Warren Searls, Citrus Heights California, 1997-1999
Luella Evangeline (Olson) Searls, Brookings South Dakota, 1990
Roscoe Jerome Searls obituary, Brookings South Dakota, 1966


Historical
1895-1896: Ethiopia, Italy - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War
1896: Canada - Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
1896: Greece - Olympic Games revived in Athens
1896: Philippines, Spain - Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule
1897: Korea - Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire lasts until 1910
1898-1900: China - The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance
1898-1902: Colombia - The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales" and "Conservadores", culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903
1898: United States, Cuba, Philippines - The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
1899: England, South Africa - Second Boer War begins, lasting until 1902