from a FAG member:
Della Falls, the highest waterfall in Canada, about 37 miles northwest of Port
Alberni, B.C., is named for her. It was discovered in 1899 by her first husband,
Joseph Drinkwater (my cousin), a Port Alberni-based trapper and gold miner. He
and Della had married in Victoria, B.C., that year. He was 35 and she was 19.
The union did not last. They divorced and Della remarried to Mr Estis.
The body of Mrs. Robert E. Estis arrived here from Spokane last Thursday afternoon for burial, accompanied by the bereaved husband. Funeral services were held from the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. B Seely officiating, and the interment made in the Blaine cemetery. Della Julia Estis passed away in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, on October 10th, after an illness of one month, at the age of 31 years. They had been residing in that city since last April, having moved from Burke, Idaho, where they went from here. The deceased was married to Robert E. Estis in this city four years ago last month. No children were born to this union. Besides the husband, a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fayette, five brothers and five sisters are left. Out of a family of 11 children this was the first death. All of the family were present except the father, who is dangerously ill in St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham, and one daughter, Mrs. Vina Eby, who resides in northern British Columbia at Kitsumkalum. Mrs. Estis lived in this city for many years and was beloved by all who knew her. The sorrowing husband and family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.
(From The Blaine Journal, October 20, 1911)
Della Falls, the highest waterfall in Canada, about 37 miles northwest of Port
Alberni, B.C., is named for her. It was discovered in 1899 by her first husband,
Joseph Drinkwater (my cousin), a Port Alberni-based trapper and gold miner. He
and Della had married in Victoria, B.C., that year. He was 35 and she was 19.
The union did not last. They divorced and Della remarried to Mr Estis.
The body of Mrs. Robert E. Estis arrived here from Spokane last Thursday afternoon for burial, accompanied by the bereaved husband. Funeral services were held from the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. B Seely officiating, and the interment made in the Blaine cemetery. Della Julia Estis passed away in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, on October 10th, after an illness of one month, at the age of 31 years. They had been residing in that city since last April, having moved from Burke, Idaho, where they went from here. The deceased was married to Robert E. Estis in this city four years ago last month. No children were born to this union. Besides the husband, a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fayette, five brothers and five sisters are left. Out of a family of 11 children this was the first death. All of the family were present except the father, who is dangerously ill in St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham, and one daughter, Mrs. Vina Eby, who resides in northern British Columbia at Kitsumkalum. Mrs. Estis lived in this city for many years and was beloved by all who knew her. The sorrowing husband and family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.
(From The Blaine Journal, October 20, 1911)
from a FAG member:
Della Falls, the highest waterfall in Canada, about 37 miles northwest of Port
Alberni, B.C., is named for her. It was discovered in 1899 by her first husband,
Joseph Drinkwater (my cousin), a Port Alberni-based trapper and gold miner. He
and Della had married in Victoria, B.C., that year. He was 35 and she was 19.
The union did not last. They divorced and Della remarried to Mr Estis.
The body of Mrs. Robert E. Estis arrived here from Spokane last Thursday afternoon for burial, accompanied by the bereaved husband. Funeral services were held from the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. B Seely officiating, and the interment made in the Blaine cemetery. Della Julia Estis passed away in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, on October 10th, after an illness of one month, at the age of 31 years. They had been residing in that city since last April, having moved from Burke, Idaho, where they went from here. The deceased was married to Robert E. Estis in this city four years ago last month. No children were born to this union. Besides the husband, a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fayette, five brothers and five sisters are left. Out of a family of 11 children this was the first death. All of the family were present except the father, who is dangerously ill in St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham, and one daughter, Mrs. Vina Eby, who resides in northern British Columbia at Kitsumkalum. Mrs. Estis lived in this city for many years and was beloved by all who knew her. The sorrowing husband and family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.
(From The Blaine Journal, October 20, 1911)
Della Falls, the highest waterfall in Canada, about 37 miles northwest of Port
Alberni, B.C., is named for her. It was discovered in 1899 by her first husband,
Joseph Drinkwater (my cousin), a Port Alberni-based trapper and gold miner. He
and Della had married in Victoria, B.C., that year. He was 35 and she was 19.
The union did not last. They divorced and Della remarried to Mr Estis.
The body of Mrs. Robert E. Estis arrived here from Spokane last Thursday afternoon for burial, accompanied by the bereaved husband. Funeral services were held from the M. E. church Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. B Seely officiating, and the interment made in the Blaine cemetery. Della Julia Estis passed away in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, on October 10th, after an illness of one month, at the age of 31 years. They had been residing in that city since last April, having moved from Burke, Idaho, where they went from here. The deceased was married to Robert E. Estis in this city four years ago last month. No children were born to this union. Besides the husband, a father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fayette, five brothers and five sisters are left. Out of a family of 11 children this was the first death. All of the family were present except the father, who is dangerously ill in St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham, and one daughter, Mrs. Vina Eby, who resides in northern British Columbia at Kitsumkalum. Mrs. Estis lived in this city for many years and was beloved by all who knew her. The sorrowing husband and family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.
(From The Blaine Journal, October 20, 1911)
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