Matrilineal Monday: Eada Belle Parrish
I have three photographs of Eada Belle Parrish.
This was taken around 1889.
I think this one may have been sometime after that.
I expect this one was taken, with husband Fred Chapin, not long before his death in 1938.
Eada Belle Parrish was born on 13 Jul 1856 in Macomb in McDonough County, IL, to Benjamin Abraham Yeager Parrish and Minerva Ann Hamilton. She was the seventh of eight children I have documented.
I think she may have been a favored little sister for her older brother, Daniel Broder Parrish. When he married and began his family, he named one of his daughters for Eada.
Eada's father, Benjamin, was originally from Kentucky. When and why he removed to Illinois is something I don't yet know. But between the births of Daniel in 1848 and John in 1851, the family relocated. The 1850 census found them in Clark County, IN.
After Eada's mother died in 1865 in McDonough Co., IL, Benjamin Parrish remarried to Melvina Crume. They had three children in Illinois.
Benjamin Parrish moved his family back to Kentucky. In the 1880 census, he and Melvina were in Grayson Co., KY, and by the time of Benjamin's death in 1904, the family was in Butler Co., KY.
Some of the extended family must have made a pit stop in Missouri on the back to Kentucky. One of Eada's older brothers, Henry Clay Parrish, died there in 1894 in Vernon County.
And that's where Eada married Fred Chapin on Christmas Eve, 1885.
I can only account for two children born to Eada and Fred Chapin.
I wouldn't be able to account for one of them had it not been for a helpful email contact from another Parrish/Chapin researcher.
I knew that Hattie Belle Chapin was their daughter.
What I didn't know was that Hattie had a sister, Ruth, who died before the 1900 census. Since the 1890 census got either burned or waterlogged in a 1921 fire at the National Archives, I don't know when Ruth was born.
But now I do know why Hattie named her first daughter Ruth.
By 1900, Fred, Eada and Hattie had moved to Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR from Bourbon Co., KS.
The next year, Hattie married Victor Claude Balding. Both families lived near each other, as census records show them both in Ward 5 in Little Rock through 1920.
Eada was widowed by Fred's death in 1938. She died on 2 Dec 1944 in Little Rock.
Eada is buried beside Fred in Oakland Cemetery in Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR.
This was taken around 1889.
I think this one may have been sometime after that.
I expect this one was taken, with husband Fred Chapin, not long before his death in 1938.
Eada Belle Parrish was born on 13 Jul 1856 in Macomb in McDonough County, IL, to Benjamin Abraham Yeager Parrish and Minerva Ann Hamilton. She was the seventh of eight children I have documented.
I think she may have been a favored little sister for her older brother, Daniel Broder Parrish. When he married and began his family, he named one of his daughters for Eada.
Eada's father, Benjamin, was originally from Kentucky. When and why he removed to Illinois is something I don't yet know. But between the births of Daniel in 1848 and John in 1851, the family relocated. The 1850 census found them in Clark County, IN.
After Eada's mother died in 1865 in McDonough Co., IL, Benjamin Parrish remarried to Melvina Crume. They had three children in Illinois.
Benjamin Parrish moved his family back to Kentucky. In the 1880 census, he and Melvina were in Grayson Co., KY, and by the time of Benjamin's death in 1904, the family was in Butler Co., KY.
Some of the extended family must have made a pit stop in Missouri on the back to Kentucky. One of Eada's older brothers, Henry Clay Parrish, died there in 1894 in Vernon County.
And that's where Eada married Fred Chapin on Christmas Eve, 1885.
I can only account for two children born to Eada and Fred Chapin.
I wouldn't be able to account for one of them had it not been for a helpful email contact from another Parrish/Chapin researcher.
I knew that Hattie Belle Chapin was their daughter.
What I didn't know was that Hattie had a sister, Ruth, who died before the 1900 census. Since the 1890 census got either burned or waterlogged in a 1921 fire at the National Archives, I don't know when Ruth was born.
But now I do know why Hattie named her first daughter Ruth.
By 1900, Fred, Eada and Hattie had moved to Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR from Bourbon Co., KS.
The next year, Hattie married Victor Claude Balding. Both families lived near each other, as census records show them both in Ward 5 in Little Rock through 1920.
Eada was widowed by Fred's death in 1938. She died on 2 Dec 1944 in Little Rock.
Eada is buried beside Fred in Oakland Cemetery in Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR.