Name Info

Ethel S. SEARLS 1886-1931
Fathers:EDWIN,GILBERT,DANIEL,JOHN,JOHN,ROBERT,ROBERT

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09119857
Gender.........female
Status.........deceased
Age............44y 11m 5d
Last-Marital...married
Fam-Group......SEARLS
Fam-ID.........SEARLS
Citizenship....US born

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......6
#Events........1
#Images:.......4
#Comments......0
#Siblings......7
#Children......1

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

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Burial.........Riverside Cemetery

Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, male, born:1850-03-29 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:1917-01-19 (66y 9m 21d) Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Anc:1, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:15
  2. Parent: MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, female, born:1858-02-08 Garden Grove, Decatur county, Iowa, died:1945-12-27 (87y 10m 19d) Saint Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota, Anc:1, Dad:GEORGE LAFFAETTE DOUGLASS, Mom:ELIZABETH ANN METIER, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:7
  3. Sibling: BURTON ORSON SEARLS, male, born:1876-09-15 White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, died:1946-09-29 (70y 0m 14d) Yankton, Yankton county, South Dakota, Anc:1, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:1, #Cmnts:3, #SrcDocs:10
  4. Sibling: Harvey E. SEARLS, male, born:1879-12-29 White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, died:1923-02-21 (43y 1m 23d) Westside, Crawford county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:1, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:7
  5. Sibling: Adell SEARLS, female, born:1882-01-01 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1882-02-08 (0y 1m 7d) Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:3
  6. Sibling: George Douglas SEARLS, male, born:1883-12-06 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1918-11-17 (34y 11m 11d) Sioux Falls, Minnehaha county, South Dakota, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
  7. Sibling: Jessie Jeanette SEARLS, female, born:1888-09-28 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1973-03-06 (84y 5m 6d) Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:1, #SrcDocs:6
  8. Sibling: Nell SEARLS, female, born:1896-07-18 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1946-1986 (49y 5m 14d) , Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:2, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:6
  9. Sibling: Dwight Clifford SEARLS, male, born:1900-08-06 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1960-06-18 (59y 10m 12d) Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #M:1, #Cmnts:3, #SrcDocs:7

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1908 ?Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
  2. Spouse: Clifford Slear McKibben, male, born:1886-05-27 , died:1964-01-09 (77y 7m 13d) , #SrcDocs:4
  3. ..Child: Lawrence LeRoy McKibben, male, born:1908 ?Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1998-07-21 (90y 6m 20d) ?Colorado, Dad:Clifford Slear McKibben, Mom:Ethel S. SEARLS, #SrcDocs:3

Events
Birth
: 1886-03-15, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
Married
: ?1908 , Age:21y 9m 17d, ?Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:bride, A family picture of their wedding exists with over fifty people in it.
Death
: 1931-02-20, Age:44y 11m 5d, De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota, ill for the last few days of her life
Burial
: 1931-02-23, Age:44y 11m 8d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Riverside Cemetery, Rev. U.G. Miller, First Baptist Church
Education
: ?, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:student
Livedin
: ?, De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota, soon after they were married

Places In
Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota

Image(s) - hover Image IDs to popup full text
S__0044 - Photo of Ethel (Searls) McKibben Wedding Picture
S__0105 - Photo of Edwin J. and Mary L. (Douglass) Searls and Their Seven Children
S__0116 - Photo of Jess, Ethel and George Searls
S__0161 - Photo of Ethel S. (Searls) McKibben


Sources
Akron Tribune newspaper, Akron Iowa
Book [?] Northwestern Iowa, Biography of Edwin Searls, ?1890-1895
Edwin J. Searls Family record
Letter from Diane (McKibben) Halvorson, Steamboat Spgs CO, Jul. 1997
Letters from Cluett Searls, Postville Iowa, 1980
Notes taken at the Riverside Cemetery in Akron Iowa


Historical
1886: Russia - Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians, Imam Shamil defeated
1888: Brazil - Slavery banned in Brazil
1888: England - Jack the Ripper is believed to have begun murdering in August and murdered his last victim in November
1889: Brazil - End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1889: France - Eiffel tower was Inaugurated in Paris
1889: India - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community
1890: United States - The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars, this event represents the end of the American Old West
1891: United States - James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, Invents basketball
1894-1895: Japan, Korea - After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea
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