Eveline Mabel "Lena" (South) Lester (20 Oct 1884--Messena Co., IA to 9 Oct 1943 in Pottawattamie Co., IA), wife of Fred E. Lester (25 Jun 1884 in IA to Jul 1974 in Pottawattamie Co., IA)
She was the daughter of Elijah Johnson "Lige" South and Nancy Eveline Honts.
She and Fred had six children--Hazel Irene, Lloyd Dale, Leland Clair, Ines Darlene, Lillian Ilegean and Lyle Wayne.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...
63 year old genealogist for most of the surnames listed. Sometimes the only researcher. I call myself more of a compiler at times, taking what my relatives give and but it in some sense of direction for the rest of the family members.