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About Edward Franklin Eiland:

Home in 1930: Taft, Kern, California
Edward F Eiland 55
Sadie M Eiland 47
Edward Eiland 83

Home in 1920: Taft, Kern, California
Ed Eiland 44 , Tx
Mamie Eiland 33 , Ohio
Benjamin Eiland 20

1900 census California, Fresno, Township 7, Districk 15
E F Eiland, head, Jun 1875, 29, m5, Tx, Al, Tx
Mariah, wife, May 1877, 23, m5, 2,2, Ca, Mich, Ca
Franklin, son, Nov 1896, 3, s, Ca, Tx, Ca
Benjaman, son, Aug 1899, s, Ca, Tx, Ca

California Death Index, 1940-1997
Name: Edward F Eiland
Social Security #: 0
Sex: MALE
Birth Date: 5 Jun 1874
Birthplace: Texas
Death Date: 20 Jun 1946
Death Place: Kern
Mother's Maiden Name: Moore
Father's Surname: Eiland

About Sadie Nance Work:

Birth: California, USA
Death: Mar. 22, 1965 Dinuba Tulare County California, USA

Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie Nance Eiland, 82, of 960 South Ninth Street will be held at 10:30 AM tomorrow in the Harry Palm Chapel. Burial will be in the Belmont Memorial Park. Mrs. Eiland died yesterday in a Dinuba nursing home following a long illness.

She was born in Clark's Valley and lived in California all her life. Her late husband, Edward F. Eiland, was mayor of Taft, Kern County, in the early 1900's. He died in 1946. Mrs. Eiland lived in Taft from 1930 until 1949 when she return to Fresno. She had been in the Dinuba nursing home for a year and a half.

Surviving are a son, Vernon Nance of Bakersfield; three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Balmer, Mrs. Mae Perry and Mrs. Frances Nance all of Dinuba; a brother, William Work of Orosi, Tulare County; two grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
~ Fresno Bee Republican, 23 Mar 1965