Ida Lee Felts Eason was the daughter of John Gladney Felts and his wife, Nancy Ganor Singletary. She had eight older siblings, all born in Mississippi save one who was born at some point in the family's trek westward, and a younger sister, born, as was she, in Upshur County, Texas.
Ida was 21 years old when she became the second wife of widower James Wilson "Will" Eason on November 22, 1903 in the Red Level Community of Rusk County, Texas. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Overton, Rusk County, where their first child, Thelma Leigh, was born in 1905.
Will Eason's job - first a fireman and later as an engineer - with the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Railway would move the family to Longview, where they would welcome six more children. They lived out their lives in Longview, in a house sitting on a rise on the southwest corner of the 500 block of South Mobberly Avenue. It would always be known as "the home place", although it was demolished decades ago and the only thing to show there had ever been a house there is a worn set of concrete steps from the front yard down to the street level.
Ida Lee Eason died in August of 1934 after a long and painful battle with cancer. She would be the first of the Eason family to be buried in Grace Hill Cemetery. Her husband, who never stopped missing his beloved Ida, followed her in death six years later.
Of their seven children, four would be buried nearby in Grace Hill decades later. The other three would be laid to rest in cemeteries found in the towns in which they lived the longest and most productive years of their adult lives.
Ida Felts Eason's life was a shining example of strength of character and devotion to Judeo-Christian virtues that she passed on to her children and they to theirs.
Ida was 21 years old when she became the second wife of widower James Wilson "Will" Eason on November 22, 1903 in the Red Level Community of Rusk County, Texas. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Overton, Rusk County, where their first child, Thelma Leigh, was born in 1905.
Will Eason's job - first a fireman and later as an engineer - with the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Railway would move the family to Longview, where they would welcome six more children. They lived out their lives in Longview, in a house sitting on a rise on the southwest corner of the 500 block of South Mobberly Avenue. It would always be known as "the home place", although it was demolished decades ago and the only thing to show there had ever been a house there is a worn set of concrete steps from the front yard down to the street level.
Ida Lee Eason died in August of 1934 after a long and painful battle with cancer. She would be the first of the Eason family to be buried in Grace Hill Cemetery. Her husband, who never stopped missing his beloved Ida, followed her in death six years later.
Of their seven children, four would be buried nearby in Grace Hill decades later. The other three would be laid to rest in cemeteries found in the towns in which they lived the longest and most productive years of their adult lives.
Ida Felts Eason's life was a shining example of strength of character and devotion to Judeo-Christian virtues that she passed on to her children and they to theirs.
Ida Lee Felts Eason was the daughter of John Gladney Felts and his wife, Nancy Ganor Singletary. She had eight older siblings, all born in Mississippi save one who was born at some point in the family's trek westward, and a younger sister, born, as was she, in Upshur County, Texas.
Ida was 21 years old when she became the second wife of widower James Wilson "Will" Eason on November 22, 1903 in the Red Level Community of Rusk County, Texas. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Overton, Rusk County, where their first child, Thelma Leigh, was born in 1905.
Will Eason's job - first a fireman and later as an engineer - with the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Railway would move the family to Longview, where they would welcome six more children. They lived out their lives in Longview, in a house sitting on a rise on the southwest corner of the 500 block of South Mobberly Avenue. It would always be known as "the home place", although it was demolished decades ago and the only thing to show there had ever been a house there is a worn set of concrete steps from the front yard down to the street level.
Ida Lee Eason died in August of 1934 after a long and painful battle with cancer. She would be the first of the Eason family to be buried in Grace Hill Cemetery. Her husband, who never stopped missing his beloved Ida, followed her in death six years later.
Of their seven children, four would be buried nearby in Grace Hill decades later. The other three would be laid to rest in cemeteries found in the towns in which they lived the longest and most productive years of their adult lives.
Ida Felts Eason's life was a shining example of strength of character and devotion to Judeo-Christian virtues that she passed on to her children and they to theirs.
Ida was 21 years old when she became the second wife of widower James Wilson "Will" Eason on November 22, 1903 in the Red Level Community of Rusk County, Texas. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Overton, Rusk County, where their first child, Thelma Leigh, was born in 1905.
Will Eason's job - first a fireman and later as an engineer - with the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Railway would move the family to Longview, where they would welcome six more children. They lived out their lives in Longview, in a house sitting on a rise on the southwest corner of the 500 block of South Mobberly Avenue. It would always be known as "the home place", although it was demolished decades ago and the only thing to show there had ever been a house there is a worn set of concrete steps from the front yard down to the street level.
Ida Lee Eason died in August of 1934 after a long and painful battle with cancer. She would be the first of the Eason family to be buried in Grace Hill Cemetery. Her husband, who never stopped missing his beloved Ida, followed her in death six years later.
Of their seven children, four would be buried nearby in Grace Hill decades later. The other three would be laid to rest in cemeteries found in the towns in which they lived the longest and most productive years of their adult lives.
Ida Felts Eason's life was a shining example of strength of character and devotion to Judeo-Christian virtues that she passed on to her children and they to theirs.
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