Name Info

Jessie Jeanette SEARLS 1888-1973
Fathers:EDWIN,GILBERT,DANIEL,JOHN,JOHN,ROBERT,ROBERT

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09119872
Gender.........female
Status.........deceased
Age............84y 5m 6d
Last-Marital...widowed
Fam-Group......SEARLS
Fam-ID.........SEARLS
Citizenship....US born
#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......6
#Events........1
#Images:.......3
#Comments......0
#Siblings......7
#Children......1

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Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........mother
Spouse?........wife
Sibling?.......sister
Child?.........daughter
Twin...........no
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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: Ethel S. SEARLS, female, born:1886-03-15 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1931-02-20 (44y 11m 5d) De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota, 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: 1909-12-02 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
  2. Spouse: Irvin Ray Goodwin, male, born:1888 , died:1908-1978 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:John Goodwin, Mom:Irene Raickart, #SrcDocs:6
  3. ..Child: Eleanor Bernice Goodwin, female, born:1912-08-17 Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, died:2006-02-10 (93y 5m 24d) ?Roswell, Chaves county, New Mexico, Dad:Irvin Ray Goodwin, Mom:Jessie Jeanette SEARLS, #SrcDocs:5

Events
Birth: 1888-09-28, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
Married: 1909-12-02, Age:21y 2m 4d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:bride
Death: 1973-03-06, Age:84y 5m 6d, Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania
Physical: ?, Role:physical, According to Cluett Searls, Jessie was "the beautiful daughter" of E.J. and Mary. She had dark hair, big brown eyes, and a charming smile.

Places In
Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa
Columbus, Franklin county, Ohio
Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania

Image(s) - hover Image IDs to popup full text
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__0128 - Photo of Clifford McKibben, Ethel S. (Searls) McKibben and three unknown women

Sources
Book [?] Northwestern Iowa, Biography of Edwin Searls, ?1890-1895
Edwin J. Searls Family record
LeMars Sentinel newspaper, LeMars Iowa
Letters from Cluett Searls, Postville Iowa, 1980
Letters from Eleanor G Johnson, Jessie Searls family, 1980-81
Mary Douglass Searls obituary, Akron Iowa, 1945

Historical
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